I’m neudivergent and I agree with you but, on the other hand, I don’t think insults that are obviously hyperbolic and don’t refer to any real life condition a person could be in are that bad. Like if someone compared a chud’s brain to a leaky, expired chicken egg, I don’t care.

usually when i say "stupid" or "dumb" i mean ignorant or uncritical or thoughtless or uncaring or whatever, is this ok or is it like people dont knw my intent when i say those words so i shouldnt use them

Jesus fucking christ we're all gonna die.

I sometimes wonder how to ride the line between sensitivity towards marginalized people like disabled people, and being understanding/tolerant about the problematic language of most people so as not to be alienating and harmful to growth. I can see why the words you listed present issues, but given that they're so common to most people's language (not to say that it should remain that way), what is a good course of action (not that it's all on any one person to come up with a solution)?

good to see the trend of "i'm in argument in another thread, time to make a new thread about it" has continued from reddit

Is smoothbrain/brainworms still fine, or is that also considered ableist? As someone suffering from a physical disabilitiy I'm always trying to be compassionate and thoughtful to others so honest question here.

I get where you're coming from Quill, and I think full blown slurs like re[dacted] are should unambiguously be denounced. But I'm not sure if extending this to any language that could be considered ableist is productive. There's an enormous range of possible disabilities and a lot of language that can be considered ableist in one way or another.

please stop writing multiparagraph threads about this it is not that serious

Bad: Ben Shapiro is a short, ugly moron.

Good: Ben Shapiro is short and ugly.

Agreed about calling people stupid.

Thoughts on calling ideas stupid?