'.' Happy Turkey Day ! <| sep |> rTulpas exists by the way . And rTulpasGoneWild as I ' ve just discovered . edit someone already said that <| sep |> Similar thing happened to Sheldon on Big Bang Theory . He started out as merely socially awkward . At some point he became an alien who was unfamiliar with all every day social norms . <| sep |> it ' s not even that the word is mean , it ' s that it ' s wrong . retard means slow . a huge number of people with mental disabilities are not slow . A lot of them can learn incredibly fast and do things that nondisabled people can do , so the word is inaccurate . Then there is the fact that it ' s just mean and insulting . <| sep |> That ' s disgusting . then you ' d barf once you see my internet history