- words and phrases that devalue disabled people by using disability language or historical descriptions of disabilities as an insult: You can make many small changes to minimize ableist language in your vocabulary, like saying a trend is “uncool” rather than calling it “lame.”
- language that treats disability as something to be pitied or disabled people as inspirational when overcoming a disability: Ableist language frames people who have a disability as “afflicted with” or “suffering from” it, but they are simply people “with” a condition or illness that nondisabled people don’t have.
