Poll 8: "PC" wording, is it right to request?

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The see the ability not the disability has been used for years to victimise the more able end of the developmental disability spectrum anyway and to incite hatred against other people with more severe disabilities. In developmental disability issues for example, this has not been used to eliminate allistic neuroprivilege but discriminate by unequal burdens on people with higher functioning forms of developmental disabilities whether they are on the neurotypical or autistic spectrum except allism which is the cause of it all. Why do allistics call themselves normal when they should really mean neuroprivileged. it really sounds so arrogant and assuming that allism is the best condition where in fact no condition is better or worse than most.

Why should people pity people with physical disabilities because they do not want pity anyway just to be treated as any other human being. It's not rocket science and why should people with learning disabilities (used to be called mentally handicapped) be able to get away with an infringement of rules of society and have excuses made for them in the same way that most allistic people do. If they do not understand cognitively that does not mean they lack the emotional intelligence to cope with the disciplinary procedures unlike those at the higher end of the developmental disability spectrum like those that have high functioning autism/Asperger syndrome and other social disabilities with an emotional intelligence quotient below 70 can be traumatised for a lifetime even if they are well above normal on the cognitive intelligence scale. OK I'm glad that they got rid of the old terminology for non allistic people it was patronising and demeaning it was also allistic arrogance as well. If a person has been denied their civil/human rights then they should not have civil responsibilities. If a person has fully inclusive civil rights then the responsibilities should follow if he or she enjoys certain privileges that allistic and non disabled people take for granted.

What is so special about disabled and non allistic needs anyway because special just means a cake or a cup of coffee that contains cannabis sorry for getting off topic here. OK calling people with Downs syndrome Mongoloids is offensive and is racist against the people from outer Mongolia, Chinese, Japanese,Koreans,Vietnamese et.c not only that it is neurobigotry against a section of non allistic people who can be some of the most loving people I have ever met during my time at a self advocacy organisation for non allistic people that I set up in 2001.

The medical model of disability is a model of disability that is pure hate and justifies hate and bigotry thinly disguised as medical science and neurological slurs being official medical terminology is just strange. A lot of slurs have been reclaimed in race and to a lesser extent in disability in allistic people. If allistic people are normal then why do the need reasonable adjustments made by people on the autistic spectrum?

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I agree with this. It is not "differently abled" which could whitewash actual difficulties caused by autism. It does take into account context in that a lot of difficulties perceived to be disordered is really mainstream value judgments and difficulties caused by mainstream value judgments. If wanting to use neutral language for once instead just accepting wording based on only the widely perceived negative parts of Autism makes me an over sensitive politically correct person who whitewashes difficulties so be it.