Words by Logan Adams As someone who is disabled as well as trans, I deal with a lot of ableism as well as transphobia.
It’s why I started spreading the message through my work “Disabled is not a dirty word”. A lot of the time non-disabled people are very uncomfortable with the idea of disability.
They view it as something negative. So when they see a disabled person succeeding and loving life, their answer usually is “I don’t see you as disabled, I see you as having special abilities”.
All of that is to distance themselves from the disabled person they’re talking about and the disability. Disabled is not a dirty word. It’s not a sad word, it doesn’t determine whether someone’s life is bad or sad, it’s just an adjective.