A lot of folks have been writing about ableist language and what that means. My semantically obsessed brain starts with the words we as #a11y advocates and pracitioners use. Disabled is a problem. It means "apart" from able. All humans are apart from some "able". In GEnie BBS 1).
days I was the disABILITIES (how it was represented) roundtable SysOp, where I first learned the term "TAB" for 'temporarily able bodied' which was an early exposure to the ideas I now have about language much less the idea that there is a person out there able to do anything! 2)
So the word Disability cancels itself out. Inclusion? It implies exclusion. So when we say we must be inclusive, we are also reinforcing the concept of exclusion in our language. Physics: To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Surely, we do need common terms 3)
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