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I don't know - the term "ableist" has certainly spiked in popularity in the last ten years or so, but even in the 90's you'd get a bollocking for throwing around the terms "mong" or "spaz" or "flid" within earshot of a teacher.
I mean, I can see why - I hate the terms myself now. but when you're in single digits of age, it's just used as another derisory term rather than a specific slight at someone's physical or mental development challenges.
It still got you in hot water if you were daft enough to get caught shouting it though.
I had a teacher in the 90's call me a spaz.
Spaz was very mild in the US and very serious in the UK. Meant kinda different things too.
The opposite for extremity in these countries at the time was fanny. Meant completely different things.
Fanny is a semi common forename in Sweden.
And what does fanny mean to you?
In Swedish? just a name, with unfortunate significance in the english language.