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By Leroy Binns
My name is Leroy, I have got a learning disability and I have personally experienced bullying.
Words hurt
Some people have called me “retard” and “mongol”, which is not right or fair for someone with a learning disability.
The thing that I do not like is sometimes they have children with them, which means if they hear one of their parents say it they will think that it is OK for them to say it too.
Some children have even called me names like “spastic” or even “stupid”, which I know that I am not – I have a had a job for 16 years! I do not blame the children because they do not know any better and it is what they have heard their parents say.
On the way home
One night on the way home from working the night shift at the warehouse company I worked for, I went to a takeaway place to get something to eat. On my way home I saw two men at the bus stop, as I turned into my road one of them stole my food.
I went back to the takeaway place and told them what happened,...
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