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la_vie_noire ([personal profile] la_vie_noire) wrote 2010-04-05 08:39 pm (UTC)

Ah, sorry about that. I really don't want to police you about the way to talk about yourself, it's just that the "anormal" usage to refer to people just irks me (but not coming from you of course).

Yeah, there are many kinds, but I have heard people calling themselves disabled. I have to say I'm pretty ignorant about disability issues since I was able-bodied all my life, and I'm no one to say how people who look different from society's "norm" should be calling themselves. Because my first instinct was to say that a term like "disfigured" strikes me as problematic, but hah! What do I know about the issue? So yeah, sorry about that.

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