Comments on: Are You Talking to Me? https://www.audacitymagazine.com/are-you-talking-to-me/ Lifestyle Magazine for the Physically Disabled Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:24:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Nathasha Alvarez https://www.audacitymagazine.com/are-you-talking-to-me/#comment-21661 Sun, 09 Mar 2014 15:25:44 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=540#comment-21661 In reply to Britany Burris.

Hi Britany, I just saw this comment. Sorry I’m getting back to you so late in the year. 🙂 Cripple bothers me and many other people I know. Yet, I am aware that each person with a physical disability has a list of words they are ok with and a list they are not ok with. Cripple by definition works for us but even the sound of it makes me shudder. I don’t like wheelchair bound either. I really dislike “special needs”.
Thanks for commenting. What do your friends think?

]]> By: Britany Burris https://www.audacitymagazine.com/are-you-talking-to-me/#comment-21621 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:54:00 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=540#comment-21621 Language is a very individual thing. It’s okay that this bothers you but please don’t assume it bothers everyone else. I prefer the term cripple. I am taking it back and am proud to be a cripple but I hate the terms special needs, handicapped, and wheelchair bound. When I meet another person in chair or whatever I use person language first until they tell me which term they prefer and I do the same. Like every other group of people we all are different and have different opinions on every subject especially language.

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