Its unfair to compare people with developmental disabilities to cold-hearted shareholder maximizing sociopaths?
Anemic, impotent, bald, and on and on.
Language is abstract. Some conditions are generally disfavored. Referencing that disfavor abstractly can be meaningful.
Come now. At the root of all of this is an ableist, patronizing assumption: People with mental disabilities must have the language used around them carefully policed because they can't handle the implied disfavor and emotional harm that language may communicate via their own agency, not like the rest of us.