Sleepless and retarted

Hnat woke me up at 5 am by kicking me out of the bed.

Nadia didn’t allow us sleeping till the midnight by her usual berserk mode. At these moments I just hate that child. It’s the everyday endless torture. By that time, I cannot get asleep. I was super exhausted at 9 pm, and could fall asleep standing or sitting, but after the three hours of this madness — every fucking day madness — it’s quite difficult to sleep, she’s super noisy and it looks more like mental illness than alternative way of developing of her brain.

When would her brain be developed enough to be at least a little bit non tiresome? She started to understand basic things, yet very often she behaves like some retarted kid, if that’s correct way of saying that. According to the dictionary it’s dated, now offensive

The use of intellectually disabled is now preferred over retarded in medical, educational, and regulatory contexts, as well as in general use.

Oxford dictionary puts it this way:

This use is considered offensive. You can say that the person has a learning disability or is learning disabled.

Also it gives this definition: slow to learn or develop mentally; finding it difficult to make progress in learning. That’s exactly what we have, and that’s why that word came to my mind first.

Also, there’s this sibling term, learning difficulty.

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