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When a disability is seen as a good thing
Disability pride seems like the most fitting term.
Kathleen R. Bogart Ph.D., who has facial paralysis caused by Moebius syndrome, explains in a Psychology Today article:
Like the early gay pride ...
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When a disability is seen as a good thing
Neurodiversity and neurodivergent have positive connotations which might work in your example sentence.
Neurodiversity:
“Neurodiverse” refers to a community of people whose members are
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When a disability is seen as a good thing
Appreciation of differences
My son has Tourette Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. He realized in middle school that the flip side of the misery caused by his intrusive thoughts is his off-...
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When a disability is seen as a good thing
I don't believe there is a word for this yet, but poetry and literature are filled with examples of this theme. The Japanese have an art called kintsugi, which is the practice of mending broken ...
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When a disability is seen as a good thing
There is a comics called Super-abled where the motto is "Disabled superheroes from disabled creators". It is a clever coinage; and coincidentally, there is the word superable (and the noun ...
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When a disability is seen as a good thing
There is no such word or term and I don't believe there ever will be.
I do believe the reason for that is that everyone knows disability is only ever a good thing if, for instance, a disabling wound ...
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