i do not believe these words should be abandoned!
my intent is to point out and critique society’s weaponization of words, not the words themselves.
also! this is a descriptive post, not perscriptive
what that means is just that i want ppl to be aware that this pattern has happened in the past and of course the forces behind those happenings haven’t just disappeared. i think pride in being ND and the fact that “neurodiverse” is a word that is created by its own community are powerful reasons to doubt that the word will have the same fate. perhaps i would call this a “call to awareness” post rather than a call to action.
(making this disclaimer because a couple people are violently adamant that i am just trying to make an argument saying all these words are the same and predicting the future, which, sorry you got that impression it’s not true. but now you know!)
Or we could just not be mean.
And let people walk all over you and then complain about being the victim. Mean people don’t deserve kindness, they deserve the same energy they’re giving out.
Taking the high road doesn’t work.
It’s not kindness, it’s nothing. They don’t need to be in my life. I don’t need to be in their establishment. My mean quota for my life is already full.
The sad reality is that people will always be mean.
Then they can be mean to someone else. I don’t have the time to deal with that in my life.
honestly i love being mean. especially to people who have been mean to me.
but! it’s trivial when i’m mean to use insults that don’t implicate the identity of disabled people or other marginalized groups
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