hi! i have been seeing a lot of posts from my mutuals on here talking about having “cr*ppling anxiety/depression” and so i made a post to let them know that if they aren’t physically disabled then they shouldn’t be using that word. a lot of the responses have been other non disabled people telling me that it’s fine for us to use because you can be “mentally cr*ppled”, and now im starting to second guess myself. cr*ppling doesn’t refer to mental illness right??

crpl-pnk:

you’re right. cripple is a slur that solely targets physically disabled people. able bodied people have no business using it at all let alone referring to themselves with it, regardless of their mental health

So a better word would be “debilitating”?

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