The average person rarely asks them self...
"Am I mentally retarded?"
Recent subject research and observations have fortunately forced us to tackle this question in a wider scope, namely:
"Is the general population mentally retarded?"
Luckily, this includes you, the reader and this humble author as well.
Most of us would consider ourselves the opposite of mentally retarded...right? ;) If for example John asked Bob...
"Are you mentally retarded Bob?"
Bobs impulsive natural response would be...
"NO!"
John may continue...
"Are you sure you抮e not retarded Bob?"
At this stage if Bob contemplates the actual question by its actual definition, he has many options for answers...
1. Yes, I'm sure I'm not retarded...
2. No, actually I am retarded...
3. Maybe, perhaps I am retarded...
Most of us due to pride and ego will immediately consider ourselves 'not retarded' and make this claim quickly.
A clever man may respond that he is retarded and give facts as to his reasoning for his state of retardation.
Someone curious or inquisitive will want to find out by measurement what side of the retardation scale they hang.
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So let's look at the definition of both 'Mental' and 'Retarded' and then measure in truth whether our day to day lives within our schedule allows us total freedom to actually accomplish our potential.
Mental: Of or in the mind;
Retard(ed): Make slow or late; delay progress or arrival or accomplishment or happening of; happen behind normal or calculated time;
Latin (tardus=slow)
If you抮e staring at a phone all day, dicking around on social networks, creeping on other people抯 lives and generally wasting time you must agree that you are definitely mentally retarded!
Think, if that time was substituted during the day to anything that required your own brain power, you would be more intelligent than you were the day before, therefore you are not mentally retarding yourself.
However, if your not using your brain and simply looking at pretty colours, pictures and conversations written by people at the same low level of intelligence, you are stagnant at best - More than likely you are mentally retarding yourself by the daily repetition of not actually activating your brain.
Drop your ego and use your own brain to calculate how much time, hours, days, or how many years, you have effectively been retarded and then find a solution to your schedule, find a substitution for the redundancy you experience daily, you will feel better once you can see and accept the amount of wasted time which has forced you into this mentality of retardation.
Good luck! We clearly need it...
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