People are very attached to terms they use, and it maybe hard to change, but the impact of using specific terms could be doing more harm than good. So, when we discuss the disability community there are two terms that often come up in discourse about people who are disabled or not disabled and that’s whether or not a person is able-bodied or abled indicating not disabled. These terms are used frequently in the disability community without much more thought about what it actually signifies to other people in the disability community.
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People are very attached to terms they use, and it maybe hard to change, but the impact of using specific terms could be doing more harm than good. So, when we discuss the disability community there are two terms that often come up in discourse about people who are disabled or not disabled and that’s whether or not a person is able-bodied or abled indicating not disabled. These terms are used frequently in the disability community without much more thought about what it actually signifies to other people in the disability community.
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