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Please Don't Call Disability 'Sad'

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A few days ago, I was talking with someone who told me she was sad because she was completing some paperwork for a child with multiple disabilities as part of her job in the life insurance industry.

I asked her why that was sad. Her response was that she shouldn’t have to do that paperwork for someone “this young.” I expressed to her that something like that shouldn’t be sad.

Being disabled could be different and hard, but saying it is sad implies that disabilities are, as a whole, a sad thing – that being disabled is sad.

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