This list is for adults with varying degrees of intellectual disability of any cause. (Except Alzheimer’s and other dementias; not counting that.) Obviously this makes a person very vulnerable. Mentally disabled people, even the higher-functioning ones, tend to be very trusting and easy to take advantage of, and they may not know how to get home or when and from whom to ask for help.
Sometimes a mentally disabled person is able to lead a more or less normal life. They might be able to graduate high school, hold down a job, live on their own and even raise a family — though they would probably need support to succeed at all those things. On the other end of the spectrum you get people who cannot manage even the most basic of self-care, need constant supervision and are usually institutionalized for life. Fortunately the former kind of mentally disabled people are more common than the latter kind.
- Carla Beth Anderson
- Matthew Glen Anderson
- Michael Dean Andrews
- Andrew James Armstrong Jr.
- Stacey Lynn Balas
- Vonnie Lynn Bales
- Stanislaw Balinski
- Jessie Barnes
- Charles Edward Bertram
- Heather Bloom
- Jeffrey David Borthwick
- Kalvin Alfred Lamar Boyd
- Diamond Bynum
- Frances Lorraine Byrne
- Willie Charles Carswell
- Krystal Nicole Cashew
- Apolino Contreras
- Brian Cook
- Frances D. Crownover*
- Byron Lee Davis
- Robert Earl Davis
- Le Tung Dinh
- Gary Dale Finck
- Christine Muriel Flahive
- Daniel Fogg
- Ricky Lee Franks
- Michael Franz
- Henry Gafforio
- Stephanie C. Gibson
- Irvin Goff
- Donald Ray Goodman
- John Franklin Gregory
- James Woodford Guinn
- Stephen Douglas Hamshire
- Flora Vesta Smith Helmick
- Glenn Richard Hustin Jr.
- Kent Jacobs
- Sabrina Mae Kahler
- Clint C. Kimble
- Christina D. M. Kleckner
- Donald Kluge
- Paul Joseph Knockel
- Rene Layja
- Lilly Lopez
- Brian Keith Lowery
- Wilbert Martin
- Ricardo Martinez
- Gary Dale Mathias
- David Matthews
- Cynthia Renea Milstead
- Robert Wayne McCullar
- Stacey Jane Morrison
- Raymond S. Mutchler
- Kristi Lynn Nikle
- Rex Richard Ocain
- Jeffrey Lynn O’Carroll
- Rene Olivera
- Johnnie O’Neal Jr.
- Timothy Scott Parry
- Shanna Genelle Peoples
- Brett Burton Perry
- Rudolph David Rangel
- Louis Hernando Reyes
- Tristan Markey Rivera
- Guillermo Rodriguez
- Christina Lynn Roof
- Kenneth Arthur Schweighart
- Dudley Truett Scott
- Clifford D. Sharp
- Keith Gerald Spelhaug
- Charles N. Strohm
- Mouy Tieng Tang
- Rodney Texera
- Lowen Dean Thomas
- Nehemiah J. Thomas Jr.
- Alfonso Miranda Torres
- Khoi Dang Vu
- Theresa Ann Wallace
- Vincent Warren
- Marc Charles Welzant
*maybe
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