Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
So we know that "hysterical" also has yucky origins. Is it also not to be used?
I'd never heard "spaz" as a derogatory term before this board. IME it's slang for any of kind of hyper behaviour. Like when my cats get the midnight zoomies and go running around the house, everyone i grew up with would refer to that as "the cats spazzing out".
Twice yesterday at the airport, airline personnel pulled April Fool's jokes. One said, "Sorry, the flight's cancelled. April Fool's!" and then the attendant said, as we landed, "Welcome to Seattle!"
You know when those things aren't funny? When you're fucking just trying to get home.
Doing things like naming the CP association the Spastic Society doesn't lean to casual distinction between the types of CP.
Yeah, I'm 90% sure we didn't have that in the US.
I still wonder how/when it gets decided that words are OK to use, when they once had a "clinical" definition that's no longer used -- hysterical vs. retarded, say.