i do not believe these words should be abandoned!
in this post i hope to call attention to the same destructive processes happening to “neurodiverse” as to all the other terms. particularly i want to call out the ableist motivations behind it. my intent is to critique society’s weaponization of words, not the words themselves.
Or we could just not be mean.
And let people walk all over you and then complain about being the victim. Mean people don’t deserve kindness, they deserve the same energy they’re giving out.
Taking the high road doesn’t work.
It's not kindness, it's nothing. They don't need to be in my life. I don't need to be in their establishment. My mean quota for my life is already full.
The sad reality is that people will always be mean.
Then they can be mean to someone else. I don't have the time to deal with that in my life.
honestly i love being mean. especially to people who have been mean to me.
but! it’s trivial when i’m mean to use insults that don’t implicate the identity of disabled people or other marginalized groups
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