A friend posted the quote above, which inspired this post. It’s really interesting to me, probably in part because because my dad always taught my sister and I the exact opposite. He had all these dad-isms: “Be little ladies, not little urchins,” “Accidents happen when you’re not careful,” and one of his all time favorites […]
Why Disability?
I talked about some of the reasons that other words for disability are not preferred by the disability community in Stop Saying Special Needs and Stop Taking About the Mental Age of People With Disabilities. To sum it up here, none of the alternative terms for disability were actually coined by or endorsed by anyone […]
Say Disabled, The Poem
Disabled. People say 16,000 words a day But one word no one wants to say: disabled. Cripped Crip Gimp Gump Differently- Abled Special Stumpy Slow Retard Crazy Sick Lame Stricken Sufferer Afflicted Low functioning High functioning Pathetic Brave Needy Helpless Hopeless Must be saved Shouldn’t be doing that Why aren’t they doing more? Lazy Lonely […]