• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the information (sometimes I hate language).
    Wasn’t aware of it being the same in english nor my native language. You never stop learning, right?

    • Perfide@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, handicapped is the supposedly “polite” way to say disabled, but me and every other disabled person I’ve really talked to about it finds it rather patronizing tbh.

      • Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I like to describe myself as legally retarded, it makes people either laugh or get so awkward that I laugh.