All the people with cerebral palsy that I've ever known get white-hot furious over the misuse of "retarded," in every case because it was frequently used to incorrectly describe their own conditions back in the days when CP was poorly understood - and was frequently thrown around as an insult.
That she would come in and pretend to be someone with an unrelated disability for the sake of looking sympathetic - what a very special snowflake she is.
Bonus points for her using the term "disentitled" to describe people who either have disabilities or their advocates being upset over the abuse of terms related to their conditions. Privilege showing much?
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Date: 2010-11-08 04:20 pm (UTC)That she would come in and pretend to be someone with an unrelated disability for the sake of looking sympathetic - what a very special snowflake she is.
Bonus points for her using the term "disentitled" to describe people who either have disabilities or their advocates being upset over the abuse of terms related to their conditions. Privilege showing much?