34 normals perceived by 15 retardates (enrolled in a junior high school special class) as friends and five perceived as rejecting were interviewed individually twice. Normals first identified 3 friends and 3 persons they disliked in other classes in the school. In the second interview, normals described retardates from photographs. Retardates' perceptions of friendship were affirmed by 17, and of rejection by 3 normals. Two months later, only 4 of the retardates did not name the same normals as friends or as rejecting them.
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