Time and time again, we get to witness a debate about whether it is okay to say that someone is disabled. This recently happened on Twitter and the disabled community has been very vocal in explaining why policing the language they use to describe themselves is ableist. I went through all the replies from the thread as well as some additional sources and tried to write a summary of the various points that surfaced. I thought I’d write a short post I can link to when answering: “is it fine to say...