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January 8, 2021 at 1:15 pm
G. K. Chesterton quote
January 8, 2021 at 1:28 pm
Gosh, what a share, i had completely forgotten about these. It was not unusual for my sister and I of accusing each other of being a spastic, along with nit and git and other insults so deeply embedded in the 1960s.
January 8, 2021 at 1:38 pm
MDH,
I do believe we called any kid who tripped or fell a spastic, but we didn’t collect money for them. We were all into our Pagan babies. Good to know you gave to spastics!!
January 8, 2021 at 3:04 pm
Talk about political incorrectness. I can’t believe there was a “spastic” charity. Yes, we used those terms and worse when we were kids. Remember, having cooties?
January 8, 2021 at 7:08 pm
In a blog a little while back I wrote about cooties and the cootie catcher we used to make by folding paper.
I don’t think we had a spastic charity here. Hedley remembers it in England.
January 8, 2021 at 8:40 pm
I think that the term spastic referred to people with cerebral palsey.
January 8, 2021 at 8:42 pm
It did for the major definition, but the definition which fits kids calling one another spastic is uncoordinated.
January 8, 2021 at 8:45 pm
This refers to spastic cerebral palsy. It’s not quite the way we’d do things today, of course. No doubt the charity folks meant to appeal to public sympathy but it’s good that we’ve moved on.
January 8, 2021 at 8:48 pm
It is so far from today. In my memory drawers, I can still hear somebody say, “What a spas,” when someone tripped or fell. There are many words which I used as a kid which are offensive, but I didn’t know it back then.