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1:34am July 7, 2014
autistic-mom asked: What word could I use in place of intersectional?

If intersectional works for you, then use it.  Don’t worry about me.  There’s lots of words that bite my brain and I haven’t died of it yet.  The last thing I want is for other people to feel obligated to stop using words just because of my reaction to them.

Generally, if I’m going to describe something like that, I describe it in more than one word, though.  Like, I know that I know the concept, and I know that I never use the word, so I must just be using longer descriptions that get the concept across without using the word.  But it’s entirely up to you – I have a list of about 20 different words that cause me problems and I’m not asking anyone to stop using them for a second, because… I just don’t want to do that to people.