Disability
Common words used to describe someone with a disability as an insult:
Retard
Spaz or spastic
Mong or downy
Flid
kinds of disability:
Physical
Learning
Behaviour
Sensory
Emotional
Health - could be temporary
A disability could be temporary, for example breaking your leg.
Semantically, the word 'disabled' causes much debate. The 'dis' suffix is a negative one, implying reversable, and disabled heads a list in the dictionary of many negative words - disappoint, discard, disconsolate, discourage, disintegrate, dismay, disrepute etc etc.
Most tv dramas like to include a variety of genders, sex's, someone with a disability. This is to appeal to a wider audience and so that they feel engaged. A typical symbol for someone with a disability, is a symbol of someone in a wheel chair. Is this really fair?
Common words used to describe someone with a disability as an insult:
Retard
Spaz or spastic
Mong or downy
Flid
kinds of disability:
Physical
Learning
Behaviour
Sensory
Emotional
Health - could be temporary
A disability could be temporary, for example breaking your leg.
Semantically, the word 'disabled' causes much debate. The 'dis' suffix is a negative one, implying reversable, and disabled heads a list in the dictionary of many negative words - disappoint, discard, disconsolate, discourage, disintegrate, dismay, disrepute etc etc.
Most tv dramas like to include a variety of genders, sex's, someone with a disability. This is to appeal to a wider audience and so that they feel engaged. A typical symbol for someone with a disability, is a symbol of someone in a wheel chair. Is this really fair?
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