DIFFERENTLY DISABLED. STORIES AND THOUGHTS ON DISABILITY

People used to say “handicapped”. Then that word came to seem offensive, and people began to say “persons with a handicap”. Then that seemed offensive too. So we moved on to “disabled”. After a while, that also seemed offensive, and it was replaced with “differently abled”. But could it be that, instead of changing the way we speak, we need to change the way we think? And with it, perhaps the way we act.