Never is this more prevalent than when asking questions about someone’s disability. Yet a concern for transgressions often leads to long silences, completely ignoring the person in question, or panicked outbursts of very much the wrong thing to say, leaving the disabled person at worst feeling alienated and best eye-rollingly bemused. There is widely-known, appropriate discourse and terminology and it’s really not that difficult. And yet people often get it completely muddled when asking questions about someone’s disability with disabled friends, family, customers or staff. ![]() Known for an innate sense of politeness and tendency to apologise profusely, they feel it if they think they’ve offended. British people as a whole are well-meaning and want to be seen as so.
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