Happy Pride Month, day 13, persistent

13. I'm proud of being stubborn and persistent and good at figuring things out. It helps me in my job when I keep digging in to solve a problem or understand someone else's code, and it helps me find things I'm looking for online.

Growing up, I was taught that being smart was a measure of a person's value. I learned from reading David Hingsburger's blog that people with intellectual disabilities have the same value as everyone else. Here's an example post, Breeze. I never got in the habit of using the r-word as a slur, but I had to learn not to use 'stupid' and 'dumb' that way.

Now I'm wincing at work when people use ableist language, but I haven't come up with a good way to intervene.