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“It’s only words” – yes, but words hold so much power!

Recently I engaged in a study about language around Autistic experience and it made me feel so emotional. When asked about words I really disliked, I replied: Impairment,Deficit,Disorder,Burden,Abnormal,Lack of,Challenges,Difficulty in, These words are disgusting! They make us Autistic people out to be problematic, weird and unsupportable. And these words are consistently seen in research and…
