Over on Feministe, Bint Bintalshamsa asks:
Can we stop with the news reports calling [Elizabeth Edwards's] cancer ‘terminal’? Please? Yes, she does have cancer, but it isn’t terminal. It’s incurable. There’s a helluva difference between the two.
Some commenters argued that calling Edwards’s cancer “terminal” was correct according to various legal and medical definitions. Which prompted Bint [...]
Archive for the ‘words that annoy me’ Category
“Naming” Disabled People
Posted in blogging, disabilities, words that annoy me, tagged autism spectrum, cancer, down syndrome, learning disabilities, nonverbal learning disability on August 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Functioning Labels Suck
Posted in disabilities, words that annoy me, tagged autism spectrum, functioning labels, nonverbal learning disability on August 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
[Written on an e-mail list in response to a parent who asked about independence. Functioning labels were brought up.]
Defenseless?
Posted in blogging, disabilities, movies, words that annoy me, tagged cognitive disability, down syndrome, intellectual disability, power on August 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
UPDATE: Dave Hingsburger discusses the “disabled people are defenseless” stereotype in his post DPN
Comic: Angels
Posted in disabilities, drawings, words that annoy me, tagged c, comics, trixie on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hard Parts
Posted in disabilities, mistakes i've made, words that annoy me, tagged autism spectrum, cognitive disability, intellectual disability, motor impairment, power, wheelchair use on April 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
[Image Description: A faceless person with brown hair parted cleanly down the middle. The back of the office chair she's sitting in is visible, and behind her you can see a white wall and a wooden door flung open with a plastic bag on the doorknob. In the lower left corner, you can see some [...]
Outlander! or, Whose Neurodiversity is it, Anyway?
Posted in disabilities, essays, monsters!, movies, words that annoy me, tagged autism spectrum, children of the corn, neurodiversity, nonverbal learning disability, outlander on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And He Who Walks Behind the Rows did say, “I will send Outlanders amongst you…and these Outlanders will be unbelievers and profaners of the holy.”
–Isaac (John Franklin), Children of the Corn
All right, go ahead and sacrifice me to your respective vegetable-god. I like Children of the Corn.
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- RT @codeman38: It says something about society when "AS wives" is headline-ese for "wives of men with AS". 5 hours ago
- Woot! #Transcript of @GameCritics podcast 25 is done. Go, me! #a11y 5 hours ago
- Music break in the #transcript of @GameCritics podcast 25. (30 mins. left!) #a11y 1 day ago
