I appreciate the work of the radical advocates for the “disabled” at Not Dead Yet, and I have learned quite a bit about morphological and lifeway diversity from their resources. (If you want to know the reasons why I scare-quote the term “disabled,” you can read my piece, Differently Enabled.) I am appalled when such perspectives get dismissed as always-only “disability extremism” or what have you by their opponents, even when I disagree myself with the views being trivialized in this way.
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