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"Differently abled" makes me think "yeah, the difference is I'm unable to do certain things" every time. The universe is not balanced and fair. It didn't give

• wcarron 5y ago
  Indeed, I've sometimes had the possibly insensitive but joking thought, "Differently abled? What abilities are they hiding? If timmy gets his legs crushed by a bus, can he fly?! Can he now shoot lasers from his nipples? As far as I'm concerned sick triceps from wheeling along don't count as an ability."
  • threads2 5y ago
    Jokes like this are differently abled
    • wahern 5y ago
      It would work better as stand-up comedy, when expectations are differently calibrated.
      • wcarron 5y ago
        You're correct in that my idea for ever telling that in person involves standup. It doesn't present very well outside of that setting, as you surmised
• giraffe_lady 5y ago
  It also fits better into the social model of disability, which I find very valuable, and assigns agency to the disabling where it belongs. Ex: I don't experience my poor vision as a disability right now, because I'm easily able to access an aid that allows me to do everything I want to with no major downsides, in the form of glasses. But if I were to become direly impoverished and lose access to them (again lol), I would be disabled by that circumstance. My physical state has stayed the same. The disability is in what I can't access and why, not the impairment itself, which can be addressed.