re: #195 wrenchwench

Does the bolded part count as ‘ableist’?

Well, I dithered over the term for a bit before I wrote it. I couldn’t come up with a better one.

I threw out a few that were worse than that one.

I suppose “disabled” might work, but does not really convey what happens when you get hit by a vehicle for not paying attention in traffic. (I’m disabled, but epilepsy is not the usual result of being hit by a vehicle.)

There is “physically disabled,” but that also doesn’t really convey the issue well (there are lots of physical disablements that do not have anything to do with being hit by vehicles).

So I was stuck. Perhaps it would have been better for me not to comment.