Euphemisms for Disability are Infantalizing
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There is this misguided idea that disability must be softened and made palatable.
The problem was that disabled people are stigmatized and as a result, things associated with them including language become associated with that stigma. And yet, many people continue to look for the right kind of faux positive wording that will magically erase centuries of systemic prejudice without actually engaging and challenging the core of that prejudice.
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