puneetsiinghal01, to disability
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Telling someone with a learning disability to 'study harder' is like telling someone trying to find their way in a dark room to just 'look harder.' What they need is a light, not more effort in the wrong direction.

Not every hardship is a result of a personal moral failing. In fact, MOST aren’t. Life is hard.

hosford42, to disability
@hosford42@techhub.social avatar

Calling someone an idiot or claiming there is a widespread learning disability that makes most people idiots is pretty ableist. If they're wrong, or they're jerks, that's probably the thing you should focus your commentary on.

Idiot is a slur that implies some degree of learning, intellectual, or developmental disability, and is often used to other non-disabled people by painting them as having such a disability. This cements the mental habit of treating such a disability as a form of inferiority, and of dismissing the views of those who are perceived as having such a disability. You are tearing down a whole group of marginalized people who are innocent bystanders when you use a word for them as an insult for others.

It's the slightly less offensive sibling of the r word. Please don't use it. Focus on behaviors, not abilities.







scoutlynn, to ADHD
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I've been trying to say this for so long. Glad to know the actual coiner of the term is on the same page as me

Also, can someone please help me write the alt text, it's a lot for me

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