Reply #22: Okay, here's the kicker

[Debi]

I made fun of anyone who wasn't like me and my friends when I was younger (I was just a terrible human being).

So, thirty years down the road, I now have a teenage son who not only has a mental disability (Mild MR) but uses a wheelchair to be mobile. (You'd think it's karma kicking my ass).

My son calls people retard when they screw up, or when he sees things that aren't like he'd do them (he also asks people if they're idiots or stupid). I correct him whenever I catch him and try to explain that we are all unique in our own way, but I can't be with him 100% of the time (and obviously he's using this around friends/schoolmates as they are using it around him).

What to do?