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It's easy to put your foot in your mouth

It's easy to to put your foot in your mouth and bite down hard. Not even deliberately. Just without knowing. And when we're frightened, stressed by unfamiliar and uncomfortable situations, it's twice as easy. I've posted about cursing, and self-talk, before, as defenses against damaging inwardly-directed verbal habits. I'm looking outward today.
 
Sherwood Community Services, an advocacy agency for people with disabilities in Snohomish County, WA, produces a hand-out about "People First Language." The card challenges its readers to reframe their words, and by implication their ideas, about the challenges and abilities of differently-abled and neurodiverse people. Rather than saying "She's learning disabled," say "she has a learning disability." "She's wheelchair bound" can be restated as "She uses a wheelchair." People First Language destigmatizes differences by reminding us that someone in a wheelchair isn't "just" someone in a wheelchair. That someone can be Stephen Hawkings, or your best friend who is also a gourmet cook, a goof with a ridiculous grin, and any other attribute you can name. That someone in a wheelchair uses that chair just the way other people use a bicycle or a car.
 
But Sandra Claire Andrews, an Institute for Challenging Disorganization colleague, reminded me that nothing is simple ... more

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