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10:55am June 29, 2014

➸ Cognitively disabled people DO get to complain about jargon, academia, etc. in our movements. Seriously. We do.

madeofpatterns:

youneedacat:

First off, quickly, to get this over with: I am not telling anyone to change their language. People can make their own decisions on whether to change their language. I have language disabilities that make it very hard for me to change my language. So I pretty much never, ever tell anyone they…

I hate how… I have this almost revulsion towards people who talk in a lot of academic phrases now.

It’s really not a good thing. I have to get over it somehow because I know a lot of our people just *really* do have to talk that way.

I know what you mean.

It’s hard sometimes to separate out an unpleasant sensation, from the source of that sensation.  Which can be unfair when the source of the sensation is a person who can’t help it.

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    As a person who honestly can’t help speaking and conducting myself in an academic manner I just want to point out that I...
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    Or even a person who just prefers to communicate that way for whatever reason.