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I’m Not ‘Differently Abled.’ I’m Disabled.

Devon Price
Human Parts
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8 min readJan 23, 2020

An accessible parking spot in an empty parking lot, in black and white.
Photo: anjan58/Flickr

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Human Parts
Human Parts
Devon Price
Devon Price

Written by Devon Price

He/Him or It/Its. Social Psychologist & Author of LAZINESS DOES NOT EXIST and UNMASKING AUTISM. Links to buy: https://linktr.ee/drdevonprice

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Preach! I’ll be “differently abled” when society accomdates for my disability

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Interesting. I have never been able to walk. I prefer the term crippled to describe my inability to walk. Am I disabled? Yes. But if I was caught up in the different condescending ways people have described me, I would have never left the house.
But…

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This was incredibly enlightening. I’ve been guilty of using the term differently abled because that is what I learned in a diversity course during a Masters program. I thought I was saying something acceptable but had never seen it in the way in…

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