disabilities

Doctors, researchers, teachers, and legislators all used the r-word to describe people with intellectual disabilities.

I strongly believe that many (likely not all) learning 'disabilities' are not actually disabilities.

> I strongly believe that many (likely not all) learning 'disabilities' are not actually disabilities Thanks...

Have people with mental disabilities actually spoken out against this use of the word (i.e.

S, the Department of Justice is responsible for enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Before that fate befell him, my grandmother founded one of the first schools for children with intellectual disabilities in her state.

So you tend to see the group of people who treat mental illness also treat autism, and learning disabilities, and dementia, and etc.

There are plenty of people with learning disabilities and no such obvious upsides.

Let us have genocide, then, for people with learning disabilities, starting with you.

You just don't hang out with people with severe disabilities as much.

It's interesting to think about other disabilities or cognitive behaviors that are made apparent in one specific way, and generalizing them outward to other situations.

I am sick and tired of people romanticising disabilities, or even worse, denying their existence.

My uncle was born in the late 1940s and has intellectual disabilities that were severely exacerbated by years spent in "mental health" facilities.

What are these disabilities measured against other than the "norm"?

If "medical description of a person with mental disabilities" was a sufficient criterion, all of these would be equally inappropriate (even in an informal / vulgar context).

But even tumblr will find it hard to get outraged about the use of the word "cretin" (outside the use as a direct slur against someone with mental disabilities).