Easier for whom? Blind people themselves, or for abled people who don’t want to have to think about how the way they speak regularly affects disabled people?

How about you listen to what the disabled community is saying rather than assuming things on our behalf and throwing fascism accusations around? It’s not like there aren’t plenty of actual fascists around at the moment either.

Disabled people absolutely have a problem with using disability as a metaphor. If you’re not aware of this already, you haven’t actually been listening to disabled people.

I’m disabled and queer, and frankly you can save your manufactured offence on our behalf, it’s pretty gross to use it as an excuse to dismiss being asked to consider how everyday language use reflects and reinforces how society views disabled people.

Malicious intent isn’t required for harm to occur. But if a disadvantaged group (who the word is actually about, no less) has made clear that using the word in a particular way is harmful to them and the response is dismissal and continued use of the word or term, that would be hard to interpret as anything other than…

When a person thinks another person or group is being “too sensitive”, it’s usually because they’re sensitive to different things than the person making the judgement.

Just so you know, the term “differently abled” is viewed pretty negatively by disability advocacy communities.

There’s actually a lot of overlap between the disabled and LGBTIQA+ communities.

Violence isn’t a mental illness. Mentally ill people are far more likely to be victims of violence than violent themselves, and reinforcing the misconception directly hurts vulnerable people.

Correlation doesn’t equal causation though. So even drawing that basic conclusion is a bit of a stretch given how basic and flawed the methods of this study were.

Continuing to use functioning labels and terms like “severe” and “mild” Autism perpetuates the misconceptions that they’re a thing, which actively harms Autistic people. So please stop!

A high functioning actor with ASD can’t know what it’s like to have ASD so severe they are completely non-verbal any more than a neurotypical actor can.

Yes well it’s more of a neurotype than a disease, human brains are complex!
We’re still trying to unlearn a lot of bad and biased science that’s been informed by a “deficit model” that assumes any difference from an assumed neurotypical norm is a deficit or problem.

Ok so here’s some info about functioning labels and how they’re inaccurate and harm all Autistic people.

As for Sia: she’s also not American, and maybe does not care about political correctness

So is it better to just say autistic or neurodivergent and then list how it affects them ?

Ok but plenty of other Autistic actors have said they would have loved the opportunity to act the role. And she responded by insulting them.

It’s not a “Witch Hunt”, it’s based on what she has actually said and done.

I agree with you... but we don’t use the term hermaphrodite for human beings. It’s considered highly offensive.

Even in “Western” countries the average life expectancy for trans people is roughly 35, mostly due to violence against Black trans women, and suicide due to social and family rejection.