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  2. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]

  3. List of age-related terms with negative connotations - Wikipedia

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    Burden: A term (also ableist) of contempt or disdain used to describe old and infirm or disabled people who either don't contribute to society or who contribute in a limited way; this lack of contribution may be imposed or facilitated by social stigma and other factors.

  4. List of fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    For the characters on screen this is an additional dimension to their authenticity, as if they are played by non-disabled then they are subject to, "the cure of the curtain call" i.e. the moment when a non-disabled performer is revealed as such after portraying a disabled character. [32]

  5. Extraordinary 8-year-old boy finishes triathlon with his ...

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    It's being called a story of extraordinary brotherly love - an 8-year-old boy determined to have his younger brother with special needs live a full, normal life helped him complete a youth triathlon.

  6. Why Robbie Williams says being portrayed as a chimp in ... - AOL

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    The movie contains plenty of music biopic tropes, but they happen to be true: A small-town kid is dabbed with fate's wand, becomes immensely successful, can’t handle success, caves to addictions ...

  7. Woman Wonders If Leaving Her Disabled Boyfriend Would Make ...

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    A disability doesn’t have to be a death sentence. In fact, one in four Americans say they live with some form of disability. However, not everyone is able to cope with it the same. Some people ...

  8. Mongolian idiocy - Wikipedia

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    While the term "idiot" is, in the present day, not used in a medical, legal or psychiatric context, instead meaning a stupid or foolish person, the term previously held meaning as a technical term used in both legal and psychiatric contexts for some type of profound intellectual disability, wherein the disabled person's mental age was considered to be two years or less.

  9. Attraction to disability - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] These feelings may indicate that empathy with disabled people, subject to exclusion in most cultures, is among the motivations for the attraction. It may also indicate that admiration is at play in the attraction, in as much as disabled people per force overcome inhibitions similar to those many DPWs face, as hinted above.