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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
If she is helping your daughter, I wouldn’t worry about the language.
I am disabled and have no issues with the term disabled person, it’s less clunky than person with a disability. I really hated differently abled when that was in vogue, though.
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Thanks for sharing your perspective on this. I'd be bothered by "differently abled" as well--it sounds just over-the-top PC. I guess really "on the spectrum" isn't that far removed from "disabled person." I suppose the equivalent of "person with a disability" would be "person with autism" or "person on the autism spectrum." I'm not sure why it feels different to me hearing "she's on the spectrum, right?" vs. "she's autistic, right?" Maybe I just have the DSM V imprinted on my brain or something...