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Give it a few more years and then "mentally disabled" will be the new retarded. We'll cringe at how people would say they're "disabled".
I work with the mentally disabled and have for a while now. I love my guys but it's so annoying seeing how new terms will come and go throughout the years constantly.
The Euphemism Treadmill might stop when the term is so clinically dry as "mentally disabled". It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue of a schoolyard bully the way "retarded" does. I dunno, we'll see.
It just gets shortened to disabled. I've seen it used countless times as an insult.