So, there is a lot of controversy, people up in arms, over the use of the word spaz, which comes from the word spastic. If you call someone a spaz in a mocking way, yeah I can see how that’s offensive, but as someone who has a spastic disorder, I don’t find the term INHERENTLY offensive.
If someone used the word spaz simply as an accurate descriptive term, rather than mocking, I’d be fine with that.