To be fair at no point have any of the educational experts or administration ever claimed that I am not retarded. It was never retracted I simply left school when I was older. If we trust the experts on this I'm severely handicapped. Who's to say I'm not a retard?
Special education you got is not reserved for those diagnosed with retardation. You did not even said that you was diagnosed with retardation. The other kids who called you retard are not experts in this particular diagnosis.
There is no reason for school or experts to retract that claim, because they never made it. The claim was done by other kids.
> as it didn't actually target anything you saw as part of your identity
The parent comment already covered this. You don't believe you are, based on how you've talked about this experience. At no point do you say you identify with the word, just that it was used against you.
By this logic, wouldn't people the state labeled as felons, who don't believe they are guilty, be unable to speak about discrimination against felons, even though they personally experienced it at both a institutional and societal level?
