Firstly it's nice to have you back posting about subjects that get us all thinking. Secondly have you noticed how names keep changing we've had 'dullard" (got you out of the army), cretin, educationally subnormal, mental handicap, mental retardation and now the twee 'learning difficulties".Of course what happens is that the names become derogatory and so someone decides to change them. Nowadays kids talk of someone having an 'eppy' ie a fit. I wonder how many of them know the derivation of the word. I doubt that many of them really want to take the mick out of epileptics. I know a very nice lady who looks after her handicapped daughter. The mum is in her 70s and the daughter in her 40s. Every year they come for 'flu jabs and the mum says that her other daughter thinks it is cruel to bring her sister along. The mum will do anything to prevent her daughter suffering and she considers a 'flu jab is beneficial.I always make a big fuss of the daughter and she never objects. I suppose if she really did object we wouldn't do it unless it was really important. It will be so sad when the mum isn't around any more and the daughter has to go and live in an institution.How will she understand that her mum isn't around anymore?