Happy Pride Month, day 13, persistent

[sonia]

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.

Comments

[silveradept]

As opposed to getting rid of a vestige of slavery, in the same way that we use allow lists and block lists or deny lists, rather than referring to them by colors. Or how it's referred to as the injured list rather than the disabled list in sport. Making things more inclusive in language makes it more possible to be more inclusive in other aspects.

Which I'm sure you're familiar with.