as small as a world and as large as alone

3:09pm July 14, 2014

madeofpatterns:

some of the things some people say using functioning labels are important

like, don’t ignore people who need a lot of care and have little or no language

Yeah.  I don’t like functioning labels at all, but not every single use of them is something utterly horrible.  Most uses are pretty fucking horrible in one way or another, but not all.  And sometimes there’s no fast way to say something.  (Although I tend to go for something like “severely disabled” or “mildly disabled” or something like that, I don’t know why that’s easier for me to stomach but it is.)

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