

While I find fictionkin and otherkin and therans fine, ableism is bullshit. Not because people don't discriminate against the disabled. That's real. No, because it's the same thing as calling them "differently abled". Originally, I parodied the Dead Parrot sketch here, but it was going to far. The problem is, it's discrimination based on disability. Without falling back into that Dead Parrot parody, they are disabled. Not differently abled, not specially abled, none of that. They do not have super powers. Trying to remove the phrase "disabled" is like trying to get rid of "African-American" and replace it with "differently colored". It's stupid. Disabled is not an insult, but some think it is because it dares to highlight the fact that they cannot do the same things as non-disabled individuals. However, if you can do everything we can, then you don't need protected status. Or in other words, call it discrimination by disability, or disableism, but ableism sounds like you're discriminating against people for their abilities. Or in other words, you sound like an X-Men villain. Which is stupid.