IN the Philippines, there is a class divide when it comes to the use of certain words and phrases.

It is not uncommon for an apparently “abnormal” person to be referred to by even the not-so-rich not as “special” but “retarded,” a description that you would easily associate with the jargon of the hoi polloi.

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