• h0tbeef@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    Don’t want to be a dick here, and I don’t think you meant anything by it, but I just wanted to provide a friendly note:

    The opposite state of being disabled is being “able”

    Some would assume that your current phrasing carries with it the subtext that “disabled people are not and cannot be normal”

    (Personally I don’t think of ‘normalcy’ as really being a thing in humans, everyone is fairly uniqie for better or worse)

    • im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
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      4 days ago

      Fair enough. I was searching for the right word and I got it wrong. I certainly have my own peculiarities and agree that the concept of a normal human is unhelpful.