When confronted with somebody using both "wheelchair-bound" and (ugh!) "person with autism" in the same post, I took a second to point out that both terms are generally dispreferred and you should, when referring to people whose preferences you don't know, try "wheelchair user" and "autistic person".
I actually have a lot of practice saying that in a fairly neutral and non-aggressive way.
To which I got a snippy reply back about how I shouldn't assume everybody is malicious and - dude. Did you think a second before you said that? If I thought you were malicious why would I waste time replying?
I actually have a lot of practice saying that in a fairly neutral and non-aggressive way.
To which I got a snippy reply back about how I shouldn't assume everybody is malicious and - dude. Did you think a second before you said that? If I thought you were malicious why would I waste time replying?