good gravy. I would NEVER have known that "spastic" and CP has a connection. I don't use "spaz" very much if at all, but it was all the rage in the 80s when I was in high school. There was no connection to CP in our use of it. It would be more likely to be associated with hyperactivity.
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le nubian - Apr 02, 2011 9:21:06 am PDT #1375 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Sophia Brooks - Apr 02, 2011 9:22:18 am PDT #1376 of 30001
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I get why not to use it anymore, but when I was a middle schooler, spazzing out or spazz had the same meaning as "wigging out", possibly with more jumping about. I didn't even get the connection with the word "spastic". Language is fascinating.
Ginger - Apr 02, 2011 9:24:21 am PDT #1377 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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Zenkitty - Apr 02, 2011 9:25:37 am PDT #1378 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
His permanent record in one vet office states "Destroys financial records."
Bartleby can chew my 1999 to pieces instead. It wasn't a great year.
I need to get some of that Bitter Apple stuff to keep Percy from chewing the strings off the blinds. What is it with that cat and string? Is he an obsessive flosser? I wish I knew more of what his life was like before I got him.
Kat - Apr 02, 2011 10:06:52 am PDT #1379 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I would never think to use spastic to pertain to CP because it's completely NOT even used diagnostically or clinically here (you get hypertonic, which I guess would be spastic, and hypotonic). Grace has hemiplegic hypotonic CP.
Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2011 10:21:22 am PDT #1380 of 30001
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The only medical use I've ever heard for spastic is re: spastic colons, which are in spasm. I've always assumed spastic was just another form of the word spasm.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2011 10:29:12 am PDT #1381 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wikipedia breaks CP down into spastic (70-80%), ataxic (<=10%), athetoid/dyskenetic, and hypotonic. They put hypertonic under spastic, but the main section is titled spastic. No way of knowing if it was a Brit that did that, or an American.
le nubian - Apr 02, 2011 10:45:22 am PDT #1382 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
This is the funniest April Fools Day prank I've seen, although I would have been a little peeved if it was done to me. This would be an exciting day.
erikaj - Apr 02, 2011 10:52:01 am PDT #1383 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I have CP(No idea which, to be honest) and I don't really care if you use "spaz". Although they are related. My exboyfriend used to have "funspastic" as his e-mail, but I wouldn't say I'm *that* comfortable with it. But he was more spastic than I am, so if he could joke about it...
javachik - Apr 02, 2011 11:34:58 am PDT #1384 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
So we know that "hysterical" also has yucky origins. Is it also not to be used?