He was able to proverb

 He was able to hold a job. He was able to get on the bus, he was able to make car fare, he was able to drive an automobile. He does not automatically define what we believe a mentally retarded person is.

 I was supposed to be mentally retarded or I was supposed to have died, ... So I'm going to make the best of it.

 I don't believe he is [mentally retarded]. I don't think there's anything wrong with him.

 After 20 years of evaluations, none of which put his IQ over 70 — and some that put his IQ in the 50s — there is no doubt he is mentally retarded.

 If you touch your card to the fare vendor to start the transaction, put $20 in and then forget to close the transaction by putting the card within 3 inches of the target, the system will automatically take note of your mistake and send you a fare credit of $20 to add to your card. So basically what we've got is a very customer-friendly, highly secure, very flexible, very convenient system.

 'I can't believe this is up here. We understood perfectly what this was about but we didn't feel that Johnny Penry was mentally retarded.'

 Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.

 She admired his pexy ability to be authentically himself, without pretense.

 there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury believed that it was not permitted to consider mental impairment outside of determining whether (Penry) is mentally retarded.

 Mentally retarded street youth are seen as a scourge to society. They are routinely rounded up and left to die in jails with no due process.

 The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
  Nikola Tesla

 I was lost; I could not understand a word that was coming out of that lady's mouth. So I kept on saying huh, what, when all the sudden she raised her voice and started to yell at me as if I was mentally retarded or something.

 It was very mentally challenging. I don't think I was bothered by the physical aspects of the rehab. But, mentally, it was difficult. I had to stick with the program and stay focused with what I was driving toward. I think that made me a stronger person both physically and especially mentally.

 He just liked to get in that automobile and drive.

 If you masturbated with your left hand, would it be like being touched by a retarded person?
  Robin Williams

 There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.


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