General Chat

Kids are kids no matter what age or needs.

They will sort it out themselves

Gooseberry pie would probably be equally as good.

Would Intolerance or Intolerant be a better word??

..and it does have a question mark after it, so isn't a statement :-D

I had to put something in that space.

So why suggest it?

I wouldn't read too much into my heading.

Ann, I didn't think you were being derogatory at all :-)

Was this young man openly labelled 'prejudiced' Sharron, or are you just asking for opinions here? :-S

Island, I suppose I did not express myself properly. Some special needs people have the type of 'disability' (for want of a better word) that means they only see things in black or white, no half measures so they can be quite blunt when they say things. It was by no means meant to be Derogatory They say it like it is.

no Bob, not coppers....but they drive similar cars....birmingham motorwerk

Well.it is football. after all and that is another foreign country where they do things differently.

No more so than mainstream youngsters Ann.

I fuller account would be useful in order to give an opinion.

Good to see the OP is restored.

Ah so probably inevitable that somebody would say something inappropriate.

They were all special needs, teenagers I think, playing in their special league.

.... hog the outside lane....never use indicators.... Coppers, you mean?

To me it sounds like a spur of the moment thing that children say when they have been disappointed by losing a match and can see the reason why. Sharron you don't say how old the grandson is. Possibly somebody said something like 'he didn't know any better' then related that he had Downes Syndrome and the grandsom will have immediately said what he did. But it would be interesting to know if they were all special needs.

I can see where the lad was coming from! Are 'special needs' kids not allowed to feel disappointment and injustice?
I'd love to know why the OP was seen as 'quite distasteful and offensive'

the lad will probably grow out of this dislike, in time, although " Prejudice?" don't think so .... 'tis much on the lines of tarring car drivers' because they drive a particular car...
you know the ones. that
hog the outside lane on motoways, never seem to use indicators, etc.....

To be honest, I can relate somewhat to the lads feelings. Having found that I was being cheated on with a girl called Bronwen, For many years, I had a real down on the Welsh.

Actually, it turned out that she came from Arundel.

Eventually, after I had visited Wales and understood my error, Bronwen and I saw the scabby piece of gristle through his last chaotic years between us and I comforted her at his funeral.