Children start calling people names early with things like “four eyes, stupid, stupid and ugly”. These terms are just as hurtful as "bipolar, psychopathic, and retarded," but at a young age, it seems like children can use these words. Children's vocabulary only grows from this point, and if it's okay to call someone stupid without thinking, why isn't that a retard either? I know I have done wrong and used the term psychopath to describe someone myself, and thinking about how it affects those who are truly suffering makes me realize how wrong and wrong it is. should not be used like that. As children grow up people change, the ones they played with in kindergarten go through something traumatic and now see things differently and are able to see the bad in something where others don't see it. This becomes even more true as people experience new things. Before meeting someone who lives with mental retardation, one would be more likely to describe someone or something as retarded. It often takes an experience like meeting someone who lives with mental retardation to realize that using it out of context is very, very