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Yes, just as mentally handicapped people can be heterosexual.
About 6-7.5 million mentally retarded individuals live in the United States alone.
They were treated as criminals.
Apparently, he generally referred to the mentally retarded and mentally ill as 'those who eat their own feces', despite the fact that it was tactfully pointed out to him that very, very few mentally ill people do this.
The Supreme Court has ruled it is unconstitutional to EXECUTE ( for a capital crime) a mentally retarded person.
Special needs is the politically correct term for someone who is mentally, emotionally, or physically challenged. In the past, hurtful people would say retarded.
its possible.
About 3-4% of the mentally retarded population is severely retarded.
Same thing. It's just a twist of words. Mentally challenged is a euphemism for mentally retarded.
No, from the work Ive done on the subject, they do not. the fact is most mentally retarded people are infact - happy. they don' t realise or understand that they are less perfect than what people consider "normal" people.
Not physically, but definitely mentally!