**Mental Retardation**?!
Question:
**Mental Retardation**?
I know someone with Mental Retardation is their a way to get rid of it if she's only 15? soon to be 16.
Answers:
In general, no, but there always are exceptions. Mental retardation is defined in the DSM-IV-TR as an IQ below 70 and a certain degree of dysfunction. It is possible through intensive education and skills training that someone with an IQ in the 60's could function well enough to not be considered mentally retarded anymore, even though they were as a child. I like what Forrest Gump's mom said, "stupid is as stupid does." Of course, that was a movie. People are people. Some have brain differences. Love your friend just as she is.