Respect PSA

Produced for the Arc of Northern Virginia and the Arc of Virginia, this PSA is meant to provide easy alternatives to using denigrating terms for people with intellectual disabilities

Web Accessible Text of PSA: When You Can Call Me...
(Most images have people with some form of disability)

Image: Happy baby girl
Text: When you can call me... beautiful

Image: Man and woman in work place
Text: When you can call me... colleague

Image: Little boy playing harmonica
Text: When you can call me... musician

Image: Little boy trying to catch baseball
Text: When you can call me... teammate

Image: Two girls with heads together
Text: When you can call me... friend

Image: Little Girl smiling
Text: Why...

Image: Man smiling
Text: Would you...

Image: Two little girl cheerleaders
Text: Ever...

Image: Older man singing with band
Text: call me...

Image: Boy blowing bubbles.
Text: Anything...

Image: Woman with arm around happy man.
Text: Else?

Text: People with intellectual disabilities
Text: Deserve only one R Word.
Text: Respect.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• ID
• r-word
• respect
• video
• blueberry
• shoes
• schermerhorn

[Geomore69]

I totally support this. We are ALL people!

[sharonf1000]

Lovely film.

[ClevelandBro24]

@79Tonyap....It's ok my friend. Don't take what people say too seriously on here. People who speak so boldly on here are mainly cowards in real life. I admire your passion. Keep striving.

[79Tonyap]

@OmegaTroll69 You are a truly sick and mean person. Being retarded or disabled does not mean these people are any different from everyone else it just takes them longer to learn things then we do. Think about the things you can't do and wish you could. Have you ever thought that might make you disabled also. You do not have to be "retarded" to have disabilities.

[79Tonyap]

All you people who are making fun of people who are disabled, those of you who like to say rude comments, and those of you who are just down right mean. Have you ever stopped to think we are all disabled in some way. How many of you ever wanted to be a baseball star like Babe Ruth or a basketball star like Michael Jordan and could not play sports good enough? Did you ever think it might mean you have a sports disability? Think about that next time you want to make fun of disabled people.

[rasalghul5555]

What exactly are we accomplishing if we were to ban the word "retarded"?

Does this then magically convert all people who would say this word to be hurtful to change their ways?

Why do people today fail to look for actual solutions and just look for symbolic ones?

[Spongefreak89]

Awww the babies shown in this video are sooo cute!!! My favorite was those girls dressed as cheerleaders!!

[disabilitynepal]

it 's lovely pic.and good idea. please see our pic ti

[lindamoodbell1]

Great video, truly respectable!

[LolaCrazy222]

:35 Is that Daryll? I worked with him at SOC.

Thank you for the vid. You made a good point.

[LolaCrazy222]

@OmegaTroll69 They might be RETARDS but at least they aren't ASSHOLES like you. Your comment is abhorrent. It's sad that there are a lot of people like you. So you are NORMAL huh and pepole with disabilities like us aren't? Well, if the definition of NORMAL is somebody like you then I don't want to be NORMAL. You obviosly have problems or else you wouldn't make comments like that.