“for all of us. Doing that is spending more time worrying about language than was spent worrying about the person the language referred to, much less that person’s thoughts.

“ – and so to then assign us a new label would be an insult to our agency.

If you want people to refer to you that way, that’s fine. But you don’t speak”

You have no idea who are talking to. I probably, not knowing who you are, have lived/since birth with my own Challenges, have more experiences with Challenged people, a degree & earned many diverse certifications in different Challenges (which I include not knowing a country’s language one lives in) from the best Higher Education Facility in my state & spent sometime in disaster of the state public education system, almost everyone on this website has! I did it because I respect & love people with Challenges & understand how empowerment & disempowerment works, had both on me, during my life! I think I put that in my profile,