I need to work on removing ableist language from my vocabulary.

Yeah it's hard to totally remove that sort of stuff after having grown up with it being common for years, but I know better and I have done much much harder things in my life.

Being a better ally and friend, and making people feel more comfortable is easily worth that small difficulty in changing my behavior.

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@korosarum Even those of us who are disabled, in one way or another, still struggle with particularly entrenched ones.

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