"It really doesn't matter what terminology you use, it's what you do about the problem!
   In my day it was accepted that the slower members of the class were properly prepared for a life involving tools."


It matters a great deal, actually.

First of all, to be referred to as having a learning 'difficulty' when in reality your brain functions probably far more intelligently than those who are sticking 'stoopid' labels on you, goes deep into your psyche.

Secondly, those who you refer to as 'the slower members of the class' are the very people that you cannot live without; the builders, the plumbers, the electricians....and it's way past time that you stopped being so damned smug, considering yourself to be more intelligent than they are, and realised that they are the people who you need in dire emergencies, because YOUR brain isn't able to work out what the hell to do....even though you may be quite good at computing skills or filing papers in a cabinet..

Don't patronise people purely because their brains work and think differently to yours. You do NOT have 'the superior brain' you just have one that is more common and for way too long has belonged to a group of people who have dared to label themselves as 'normal' and everyone else as 'slow'.

It stinks.

Thank you.