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In this short "debate", sillysaurus has called me "annoying", "smug", "arrogant", "biased" and referred to me repeatedly as "people like you".

He's not debating me. He's debating every person that ever insulted him and using me as the punching bag while he's doing it. He's not listening to what I'm saying. Every time I reply to him he hears the people who have been putting him down and becomes more angry. Why in the world would I type out another reply to him?

Anyway, I don't see the significance of his question as aimed toward me.

what the difference is between someone who has a mental handicap, and who just isn't very good at memorizing things

He used the word handicap - I was just quoting him. I don't know what a mental handicap that causes you not to be able to memorize might look like. Does he have a traumatic brain injury? That would be a handicap. But he says he was like this since birth. Did oxygen get cut off to him during delivery? I have no idea what he's talking about when he says he's handicapped. How in the world can I answer his question?

In any case, I was aiming my comment at normal people and to head off the next silly question of what normal is, I mean people of typical mental capacity.




What is the functional difference between a handicapped person who can memorize little and a person who isn't labeled handicapped but memorizes just as much? If there is none, then your qualification is useless.

What difference does it make what the source of the problem is? Why do you have to know the type of handicap?

edit: he/she has already given an excuse for him/herself to stop answering questions. :(


In any event, I hope we all learned something from this. :)




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