not to be a complete jerk, but I honestly feel like this attitude is why we still have such a long way to go with how CSA is dealt with and why there are so, so, so, so many abusers who get away with is for decades and decades and have scores and scores of victims: because it is uncomfortable and upsetting and a lot…

Seriously. There are no words for how disgusting and inexcusable that is.

Right? I feel like I could have lived the rest of my life just not knowing that information at all. :-/

Well, holy fuck.

Fucking huge problem with ableism. Some of these posts are fucking gross- and it doesn’t surprise me that 30+ years ago, people with learning and mental disabilities used to have all of their teeth pulled and also be sterilised. (My husband used to look after people that had spent most of their lives in state-run…

I think its one of those problems, at least FAS, where it goes undiagnosed because no one wants to admit, even to themselves, that they could have caused this to their child. Nor does anyone want to think that way about their mother.

Lol. Oh yes, the secret service budget will immediately flow into Clintons appearance budget. GTFO.

Exactly. I’m assuming based on my professional experience that it wasn’t so much a learning disability that made her not really have these cognitive functions that are part of normal human development and rather a mild cognitive disability that affected her understanding of the world around her.

Thanks for sharing this. I hope more people read your story and take a minute before jumping to judge this woman with very little being known at this point.

Yeesh, I hope you have a good support network and are coping. I’m just worried about something happening during a rage. Please stay safe and internet hugs.

“But ABC spoke to a woman who said she was Salman’s special education teacher in middle school, and who said she had difficulty with “conceptualizing” and “understanding:

She doesn’t get to pull “being disabled” because people on the Internet have already decided she should be hung? The fuck?

I know everyone is ready to crucify this woman and all, BUT.. my child’s father has these same sorts of problems. It isn’t anything you can see and it is due to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. We’re not together anymore and its something you need some time with someone to recognize. We only had him diagnosed at about 25. I…

I assumed it was just a funny pic of some random that got spread across the internets.

I’m actually very grateful for today’s Dirt Bag, if only because I was finally able to recognize that was Nick Young in that famous meme. You’d think since I’m such a basketball fanatic that I would have recognized him. But no, Swaggy is just as forgettable on the court as he is off I guess. Seriously, though-it’s…

Oh, christ.

It’s possible to have a very serious executive functioning deficit and a disorder of working memory that would make it very difficult to understand cause and effect. I understand you’re being facetious, but not all of the things that are commonly called “learning disorders” are as straightforward as dyslexia or bad…

There is a very wide spectrum of learning disabilities, so she could very well fall at the far end. Frankly, from what we’ve learned of the douchebag asshole fuckwitted shooter, he sounds like the sort of person that would marry someone who’d struggle to be able to disobey him or argue back properly. He would love a…

Not all learning disabilities are the same. In her case, it sounds like she has trouble with abstractions. She might not be able to connect purchasing bullets to a larger “plan” for instance. She may still be complicit, but if her special education teacher is willing to publicly go to bat for her and claim she would…

Counterpoint: there are a wide variety of learning disabilities, some of which would bear on this matter, others of which would not.