Spastic/Spaz

Spastic is a term meaning "pertaining to spasm(s)". This word and the slang word "spaz" have been used to describe people with types of paralysis, cerebral palsy, or epilepsy.

The Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics was founded in 1946, and the Spastics Society, an English charity for people with cerebral palsy, was founded in 1951. However, "spastic" began to be used as an insult and became a term of abuse used to imply physical or mental ineptness: a person who is uncoordinated or incompetent, or a fool.