No offence taken, whatsoever!
What I can't understand is 'how come we appear to be going backwards rather than progressing', taking on the terminology that is commonly used by institutions that systematically oppress and categorise us rather than defining us in a way that does indicate clearly a social model use of language. That is that the impairment or condition is a just a fact, neither negative or positive but because we have those impairments or conditions we therefore face Disability. Those institutions/social structure are an agent of Disability. Disability is therefore the discrimination/oppression that we face. We are therefore Disabled people. Anyway that is my understanding. I have spent years and years attempting to explain that to other disabled people but now it seems that we are back to the old patronising attempts to make us and others notice that we are 'people first'.
Is this not surely just an appropriation of the language of Disability which is then being fed back to us in a sanitised way?
Anyway - suppose it won't much make much difference to the actual practicalities of day to day work but I do think it kind of confuses the understanding of the social model, whatever the US say.
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