• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    There was a time when nurses and doctors said “flid” and “spastic” too.

    Using a “cute” abbreviation of a technical term is, at the very least, condescending and at worst, a term that very quickly becomes used to bully people with specific outward appearances caused by medical conditions.