EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

JWestland:

I've seen it used, I thought it's perhaps better but it's not a good term then?

No problem, I'll stick to disabled.

Eseman:

Mind if I ask why? I’ve also heard if used, and I thought it was the inclusive term to use.

There are two (main) 'models' of disability, the 'medical model' and the 'social model'. The former says that a disability is a defect in a person, i.e. they are somehow worse than others, and disabled by their impairment. The latter says that people are 'disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference'.

https://www.scope.org.uk/about-us/social-model-of-disability/

'Differently abled' is a different kind of attempt to dismantle the idea that disabled people are disabled because of their impairment, but it doesn't really state that there is such a thing as socially-caused disability.

Disabling people is just a fact of a society that doesn't include everybody, and while it persists, it has to be challenged, but it also has to be seen clearly that it exists and not denied.

Thread here:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/282967/