Word: spastic
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...Bray has graduated to the nursery for children aged three to eight, and many of her former charges have graduated with her. For this older group she has organized rhythmic games (hand-clapping and singing). She has led a pitiful procession of the mentally lame, the halt and the spastic to the colony's canteen, a whole block and a half away, for a treat of ice cream. "We had never seen anything like that happen before," said a fellow worker. "Everyone talked about it for days...
...Psychiatrist Meduna claims to have a possible answer: a few sniffs of the gas which puts the bubbles in soda water. This, according to Dr. Meduna, may make psychoanalysis unnecessary. And, he contends, it is wonderfully effective for anxiety, inferiority complexes and homosexuality, or such psychosomatic complaints as spastic colon, frigidity, impotence and stuttering...
...would seem so unnecessary were doctors permitted to put these little spastic and other hopelessly deformed babies to sleep at time of birth. Why permit them to live-when by so doing, they become later an agony to themselves...
Your write-up of the murder of Virginia Braunsdorf disturbs and disgusts me. You give the impression that a spastic is a hopeless case for which death is the logical, if illegal, solution. You should have at least investigated the records on cerebral palsy, the technical term for spasticity...
...Many spastics have achieved distinction in various fields, and most of them, like most other people, are of normal mentality . . . I know whereof I speak. I am a spastic. " VASSAR MILLER