>>15Yeah, maybe you're right. But in 20-40 years, descriptions like 'intellectual disability' or 'developmentally disabled' will be deprecated, too, and something new will be used. Again, the problem (be it the ridiculing of retards or the retardism by itself) isn't solvable by changing the word describing it.
I'm just taking a shortcut and saying you can just as well keep using 'retarded'.
I would even go as far as saying that 'disabled' is worse than 'retarded' because it implies a general and permanent inability, while 'retarded' simply means that these people are just 'slower'.