I don't see how it's offensive to call a non-developmentally-disabled person "retarded." It's the same as calling them "idiots" (which is an even OLDER term for those with mental disorders.) Also, mental disorder is becoming too offensive as a term, mental imbalance is a "softened" way to say it.
Pretty soon all of our words will be made of fluffy cotton clouds, they'll be so softened. I'll be a Caucasian European-American (specifically Finnish, Irish, Scottish, German, Polish, and Slovenian.) who has a mental abnormality. I'm not tall, I'm vertically-gifted. (Exaggeration, sure. But for how long is it exaggeration?)
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