Deleted User wrote: » I've personally never heard anyone complain about the word invalid.
s1ippy wrote: » I've never heard of anyone using it and I've never heard anyone complaining. I mean, I'm not offended by it but aren't you technically saying the person is invalid by virtue of whatever illness they have? Who do you determine is an invalid? Someone with something as debilitating as a severe brain injury or somebody with mild asthma?
Mickeroo wrote: » I thought people had stopped using that word before PC even became a thing, not due to it being offensive or anything just due to it being an old fashioned word that isn't commonly used.
endacl wrote: » About 5 years ago we all agreed that nouns would be time-limited. Whatever replaced the word ‘invalid’ will become invalid in about ten years. Are we still allowed to use the word ‘invalid’ to mean ‘invalid’, even though we’re not allowed to use it in the sense of ‘invalid’? Keeping up is complicated.
Deleted User wrote: » Invalidity pension is still going strong.
Seamai wrote: » I was reading an article recently about the difficulties members of the deaf community are having when trying to communicate with someone who is wearing a mask as they make it impossible to lip read. Interestingly the person who wrote the article said that they did not use the word "disabled" when referring to themselves but preferred "handicapped" as they learned to get around most of the issues caused by their deafness and didn't feel that it stop them from doing things which made a lot of sense to me. Disabled to me says unable where as handicapped says able but has a disadvantage.
Wibbs wrote: » It's fashion as much as anything. "Retard" is another one. A decade ago it was pretty harmless, even a mainstream Hollywood flic like Tropic Thunder gave birth to a very popular meme around it. Today, no way would that script get approved in that form, because the pearl clutching and the fear of same would be monumental. Here on this site it would have caused few eyebrows to flicker ten years ago, but again today you can almost hear the buttocks being clenched. Yet what were once other old medical terms for mental impairment like idiot, moron, imbecile etc don't get a second look(though "spa" would and has done for longer than "retard"). I wonder is it because "retard" is more associated with autism and that's why it was more singled out? That we have more awareness of that condition today and people on the spectrum have more of a voice online than off, so that was an influence?
RWCNT wrote: » In my lifetime I've been told the politically correct terminology from someone with a disability was handicapped which then changed to differently abled which then changed to disabled. I've almost taken for granted that it's just going to keep on changing every decade or so.
maccored wrote: » its just common respect and manners not to call someone an 'invalid' - regardless of the pronunciation - or a retard etc .
banie01 wrote: » Invalid, makes a conjugated appearance on my bank statement at least once a month so it's news to me and the good folk at the Dept Could it be that someone is assigning a meaning of a person being invalid rather than the actual meaning of the word? Another symptom of the race to find offence maybe? As an invalid, I'll say it loud and proud... I'm grand with it
The word invalid is an adjective that is also derived from the Latin word invalidus, in the sense of being weak or feeble
El_Duderino 09 wrote: » You call it common respect and manners. Others call it PC gone mad. Some people think it's edgy to reject common respect and manners in a silly belief that words shouldn't change in meaning.
crossman47 wrote: » Serious question - why? Its a perfectly normal way of describing someone with an illness.
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