tabsina on 02 July 2007
| kn said: since I have a special needs child, I'll tell you what spastic is: It is short for spasticity and can either be low or high. It refers to muscle tone. People with high spasticity are very rigid and have serious difficulty moving their arms and legs. Low, conversely, leaves people with very flopply limbs. It has nothing to do with "mental" capability and such. Using the term spastic to describe or poke fun at a normal person would essentially be saying they have jerky, uncontrolled arm and leg movements rather than slow, fluid movements in a "normal" person. There ya go. Now you know how to use the term. |
Thanks for clearing that up for me.. good thing i wrote "i believe" otherwise i would have been lying
Anyways, it's still rude to certain people, and as you've pointed out, it doesn't even have anything to do with mental capability, so i'm not sure what they were trying to pull by putting 'super spastic' in there
