“Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.” -Yehuda Berg
It’s 12 : 09 PM on day 2810 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read a Bible verse, take a picture for have breakfast and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – raised $14 469 only $4 281 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to reach my new goal of helping 75 kids with Clubfoot by June 17, 2018.
Today I was thinking about words people have used to describe me and those like me and while I know people generally mean no harm I thought I’d list the words that sting me the most so that nobody offends people who are visibly different by accident.
5 Terms To Never Use On People Who Are Visibly Different
- Special needs (I have the needs that everybody else I just have extra needs on top of that)
- Disabled
- Crippled
- Handicapped
- Differently-abled (most people don’t have a problem with this one but whenever strangers use that word to describe me I hear Nisha can’t walk but as a consolation there’s a lot of other things she can do [I don’t know what those things are but she can do things] the undertone of unintentional pity, even with this political correct term, is something I can’t stand I would prefer that if people had to mention my difference at all they say Nisha has Cerebral Palsy, a neurological condition that affects movement and speech, it’s factual, to the point and has no connotations)