The word 'belm'

Google the word belm.
I haven't found a forum where there aren't people saying they think comes from taking the piss out of a man with cerebral palsy.

Derogatory slurs about mental and physical disabilities are massively marginalised because of archaic attitudes like yours. That's why all over the country you'll hear people say retard, spastic, insane etc and not get pulled up on it because 'language and words change' and the world has decided that the mentally and physically disabled are fair game.

The fact that people are going to be reading this and thinking 'fucking pussy all this political correctness can fuck off stop being such whiny little bitch grow up' is a perfect example of exactly how marginalised this issue is.

I was a bit like that ^ before I came into contact with mental health charities and was made properly aware of the problem. It's allowed to start at such a young age and nobody stops it. Generations of kids at school start saying these words and grow up still saying them and thinking 'it's not that bad, not like calling someone a paki or a faggot'.

This is a good article:

http://www.abc.net.au/rampup/articles/2011/09/13/3316570.htm

Like I've said before, I spent about 7 years working as a support worker for people with learning disabilities and mental health needs, I've got a pretty good grasp on the issues people face around this kind of thing. You are pretty unlikely to find me using words like retard, although, like every word, context and meaning are more important that the censorship of a certain arrangement of letters. You are right about hearing people all over the country saying retard and spastic and they should probably get pulled up about it, you'll also hear people saying idiot, moron and cretin and most people won't be bothered, you won't hear people calling each other belms apart from on here, mainly because of this little thread about it.