I've stayed out of this argument because, well, y'all are adults and don't need me to come break up fights -- this is the real world, not recess.

I will observe, though, that enochsmiles is being honest when he says that he doesn't like the term "cripple" being applied to him. YM obviously V. (As another example, he didn't like it when I described a seizure as a "fit" to the paramedics who had to come here back in February. It's not a word I would normally use, but I was up against a language barrier and their English wasn't that great; it was still tacky, though, and I apologised when I found out that it had offended him, a day or two later.)

I suppose it's like "tranny" -- some transsexuals apply it to themselves, some get incredibly shirty when they hear it applied to anyone, even self-applied.

Meh. Language is hard.