Talk:Disability etiquette
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It looks like no one has a problem merging the contents of the list into this article, so I will do that within 24 hours unless someone tells me not to. Jacqui★ 14:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
- I'd prefer not, but happy to discuss SP-KP 02:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
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- Having thought about it some more, I don't mind if you want to do this SP-KP 05:29, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Can I object?
I do have a problem - The mixing of this article which, although simplistic, is positive would only confuse the 'uninitiated'. The 'language is power' mob have been having so much fun in the past few decades that even 'Disabled People', or should I use another contentious label, don't know what's in or out this week - if you include UK and USA terms gawds help us all!
For example the term 'stroppy crip' is seen by some as derogatory except when used to describe oneself amongst other 'stroppy crips' - I don't mean to upset anyone by this and if anyone is upset at me openly using 'power' wording I am sorry - it is the term I use to describe myself ........... as does my American wife to describe herself (after extensive priveat English as a second language tuition - JOKE)
--Welsh Fox 13:16, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Broken link
Seems some of the etiquette links are broken. I couldn't find the intended documents, can somebody help?? Rodrigo Novaes 21:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mongolism Reference
I have a proposition for a change. Object if you want, but you folks last commented two years ago so I might just end up changing it if I dont hear anything anytime soon.
"Some of the terms, such as "retard" and "lame," are deliberate insults; others, such as "wheelchair-bound," are inherently negative; still others, such as "Mongolism," are based on stereotypical ideas of certain groups of individuals with disabilities."
how about
"Some of the terms, such as "retard" and "lame," are deliberate insults; others, such as "wheelchair-bound," are inherently negative. Others still, such as "Mongolism" are indicative of the intersectionality of disability and racism interlocking in the binary of ability/disability. "Mongolism" was coined as a term (for what later would be called Downs Syndrome) on the basis of racism and the assumption that the superior races were devolving, reverting back to an inferior "mongoloid race".
From wikipedia already:
English physician John Langdon Down first characterized Down syndrome as a distinct form of mental disability in 1862, and in a more widely published report in 1866.[52] Due to his perception that children with Down syndrome shared physical facial similarities (epicanthal folds) with those of Blumenbach's Mongolian race, Down used terms derived from prevailing ethnic theory.[53]
from http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=4420 Definition of Mongolism
Mongolism: Obsolete name for Down syndrome.
Down syndrome refers to the 19th century English physician J. Langdon Down who described the condition in 1866. In great error, Langdon Down attributed the condition to a "reversion" to the "mongoloid race." He held that evolution had been reversed and there had been a sort of backslide from the superior Caucasian to the inferior Oriental race. The misnomer "mongolism" is incorrect and racist and is to be avoided.
Flookster (talk) 21:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)flookster
