Ableism in Diagnoses (1)

  Ableism in Diagnoses On Eugenic Legacies in Medicine and Naming as a Power of Definition Antispe Ability, Pegi and Palang Draft, November 1, 2025 Why must one live under the name of a syndrome named after a physician whose own history was marked by ableism, paternalism, or even eugenic thinking? This is no theoretical…

Topic: Ableism among people who are themselves affected by ableism

When people “with disabilities” discriminate against people with disabilities?!? Anecdotal case: A manager at an organization, with an invisible disability, discriminates against a young person with a visible disability, but cloaks their ableism in seemingly anti-ableist rhetoric. How to react? The fact that a person is categorised as severely disabled does not change the fact…