The r-word is something that growing up I heard a lot in school. Kids didn’t truly understand the meaning, and didn’t really know how to compensate for their lack of vocabulary to describe something that was dumb or stupid, so they used it.
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My neighbor was the first person I had ever encountered with a disability. I was in the second or third grade, and we’d go outside and play football with him, his brother, and other kids on the block. He had down syndrome, and at the time, I truly didn’t understand what it meant.