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I finally read the book and Forrest is not mentally deficient at all in the book.
In the book, he's a very aware, intelligent person who's good at focusing on and solving problems but has a speech impediment.
Maybe the movie tried to do that, but I don't think they tried to do that.
He also goes to space with a chimpanzee.
The book is pretty crazy.
You're not wrong they literally have a scene talking about his test scores showing his mentally deficiency on a written test.
In the film he's a diagnosed retard.
I mean he is from alabama.
Why are you just repeating him?
Which you could charitably read as them not understanding that a speech impediment doesn't translate to lower intelligence, but reading the book is very jarring because it's basically narrated by this almost hyper self-aware character who became famous for being portrayed as unthinking, literally mentally challenged and falling into all of these events.