Spastic

The term spastic has three meanings in the English language:

• as the adjective for spasticity
• as an obsolete term for sufferers from cerebral palsy
• as a term of abuse, e.g. you're such a spastic, more common in British playgrounds than elsewhere. In the mid-1980s, some sufferers of Cerebral Palsy attempted to 'take back' the term. This is the meaning in the Ian Dury and the Blockheads song: Spasticus Autisticus and is also used in the Ben Elton book Gridlock.

The Spastics Society, a UK charity for sufferers of cerebral palsy, is now named Scope.

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