(Guys, please snip the unnecessary parts when responding to a post.   
Thank you!)

I most definitely prefer the term "handicapped" and abhor the now  
hopefully defunct term "crippled" which always makes me think of the  
Dickensian character Little Tim, who was a pathetic creature.

I remember once that my mother got incensed at a local pharmacist  
when he referred to me as "crippled."  She actually told him just  
what she thought of that term and never went back to that drugstore!   
I wasn't there at the time, but wish I could have witnessed it.

Kat


On 7 Feb 2006, at 22:41, Magenta Raine wrote:

> rolling my eyes , do not call me "special" either, that is as bad as
> handicapped, except that on some level I don't mind handicapped as  
> much as
> disabled. Handicapped  just  means we have to work  harder at things.
>