It's not the normalization of bullying of the genuinely retarded. Nobody thinks that anybody who walks up to a severely disabled down's syndrome person and calls them retarded is a reasonable or fair person.
The point is what being retarded defines will always be seen as a negative thing because it is a negative thing. It's like trying to spin someone smelling like shit into a positive thing. It's just never going to happen because its fundamentally flawed.
The word has become entrenched in our vocabulary from people exactly like OP being offended by other people using words to describe the very same thing. Frankly it's metaphorically retarded not to see being literally retarded as a negative thing.
Is it normal that I get upset when I hear someone use the word "retarded"?
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It's not the normalization of bullying of the genuinely retarded. Nobody thinks that anybody who walks up to a severely disabled down's syndrome person and calls them retarded is a reasonable or fair person.
The point is what being retarded defines will always be seen as a negative thing because it is a negative thing. It's like trying to spin someone smelling like shit into a positive thing. It's just never going to happen because its fundamentally flawed.
The word has become entrenched in our vocabulary from people exactly like OP being offended by other people using words to describe the very same thing. Frankly it's metaphorically retarded not to see being literally retarded as a negative thing.