1. Language can empower people. Language can be supportive, encouraging, reassuring and inspiring. The words we use and the context we use them in can leave a person feeling confident about themselves and their abilities.
2. Many of us have some privilege or advantage over another. Either through talent, intelligence, wealth, strength, even race or sex. These privileges can grant us power. For example being white can be considered a privilege in this country because it puts you in the majority. Being in the majority grants you power through voting for example. Or being born male is a privilege and therefor men have more power, better jobs, higher pay, more political control than women. Those without privilege, the weak, the illiterate, the poor, the disabled, the minority have less of an ability to influence others in a way that benefits themselves or their group.
3.My little boy has blue eyes and blonde hair. His favorite flavor ice cream is vanilla (with sprinkles). He adores his little brother, has Tourette Syndrome, enjoys swimming, is a talented writer and loves to have his back scratched. His diagnosis is a very small part of who he is. He is a person, 1st and foremost!
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