I'd like you to do me a favor

Use your phone / a notebook to keep track of the number of times you use ableist language in conversation this week

Lame
Blind to criticism
Falling on deaf ears
Don't be a spaz
Retarded

Then ask "what was I trying to say?"

You'd be surprised

If you get a parking ticket
and you say "That's lame!"
What you actually meant was "That sucks!"

If you die in a videogame
and you yell "that was retarded"
what you actually meant was "That was bad"

Ableist language is inserting a disability in place of a negative word

Just as we used to say "gay" when something was bad, using disability terms as an alternate word for a negative situation or feeling is common in today's language

But just as we stopped saying gay to mean bad, we can stop saying these words too

Think about the words you choose

Great question.

"Blind play through" or "going in blind"

Can easily be replaced by saying "No spoilers play through" or "Undiscovered" or "first" (if it is your first)

A blind playthrough would be to turn your monitor off, and that's not what most mean https://twitter.com/lucanaii/status/1272645984149962754