We already do this with some slurs, right? We can start enforcing these words, too.
Not calling anyone out, I’ve been guilty of it too. And we don’t have to do it all at once. Like, we can start with these:
Ableist words and alternatives.
Stupid, R€tarded, Idiot(ic), Cretin, or Moron(ic): People say this to imply something, or someone isn't intelligent or worth their time, but the words refer to people with intellectual disabilities. Instead, say that a situation or person is frustrating, ignorant, dense, unpleasant, cheesy, or awful.
Dumb: This word refers to a person who doesn't speak verbally, but people often use it to mean that something or someone isn't intelligent or wise. It's listed separately from stupid and its synonyms because it references a physical disability instead of an intellectual one. Try using any of the non-ableist synonyms like irritating or uncool.
Crazy, Nuts, Mad, Psycho, or Insane: "Wow, that's crazy!" may not seem like a harmful statement, but if you think about someone with a mental health condition hearing that statement, it's easy to realize that it is. So instead of using one of those words, try outrageous, bananas, bizarre, amazing, intense, extreme, overwhelming, or wild.
Psychopathy is a weird thing, it's definitely a mental abnormality but is it really a disability? In some ways and especially for powerful people, psychopathy is a superability, as it allows them to exploit people more effectively and without the built-in mental anguish that most people are forced to suffer. It can obviously manifest as harm towards the person themselves, but usually due to some kind of other disordered impulse control.
I've struggled to understand the social relation of psychopathy to the rest of society and whether it properly fits into any of the categories of disabilities or not.
Psychopathy is an inability to experience sympathy, essentially. You aren't only able to avoid it, you can't experience it if you want to. Technically it can also be "cured" through therapy at an early age, but that's another conversation.
Psychopaths are overrepresented in addiction, homelessness and prisons.
Its not just the capitalism superpower disorder.
Just because theres the autism superpower savants doesnt make autism not a potential disability.
Yeah it's like it makes social position more extreme in either direction