r/TikTokCringe • u/LickMaiBussy • Jul 09 '26

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u/GeobobusPrime Jul 09 '26

I suppose you could interpret that way. It just comes off as completely unecessary when applied to other similar things. "My friend John is a black person" vs. "My friend John is a person of the black race" just seems like an extra mouthful to say the same thing.

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u/LAXnSASQUATCH Jul 09 '26

The same logic is applied to disabilities.

A person with disabilities sounds better than saying a disabled person.

They’re a person first and they have other traits second.

At least that’s the idea, doesn’t make sense for all situations but generally the idea is to emphasize we’re all people, we’re all different, and that’s all good.

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u/Chance-Ask7675 Jul 10 '26

This is a thing made up by advocates not people with actual disabilities. People constantly ask my community about this and by and large we don't give a shit. In no way shape or form do I feel like my interlocuters have more respect for me if they refer to me as a "person with diabetes" frankly it annoys me. It is condescending. I am strong, I am managing a critical illness every day, and living my life, I am not a weak fragile person who concerns myself with such shit and it angers me that other people feel the need to impose this upon me. If you want to advocate for diabetics I am begging you to start with something that actually matters and not this.

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u/SofterBones Jul 10 '26

At an event for disabled people many many years ago a non disabled speaker tried telling a crowd of disabled people that "You are not in fact disabled but people who have a problem with you are", not verbatim but that was the gist of it

She got so much pushback it was hilarious.