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NAOP daily challenge #1

I found that Ted talk to be pretty heartbreaking. I was absolutely blown away by that we have disabled defined in such a way that is so hurtful, wrong, and untrue. How can we as a society justify in the world we live in today that this is okay? We live in a world that will scream racism or sexism at every chance it gets yet no one cares to look at the way we define things. I could not imagine reading a definition that I knew was describing me whether it was true or not if it were anywhere near as hurtful as what we consider the word disabled to mean. Words are meant to uplift not bring down, if this wasn't true you would of never been told "if you dont have anything nice to say, then dont say it at all," would you? It wouldn't matter if words were meant to hurt and/ or cause pain. So if disabled must have the meaning that it does then I believe we better do a damn good job no longer using it to describe anyone ever. I'm so grateful that there are others in this world that share the same viewpoint as I do, together hopefully we fix things like this for one children and grandchildren so that they grow up in an atmosphere thats much truer than ours.

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