Sensitive “Tone Deaf” and “Blind Spot” (1 Viewer)

[litc]

You can google peoples opinions on more appropriate words from their view. For crazy some say senseless, irrational, outrageous, enthusiastic (?), and so on. Plenty of people don’t have an issue with those words though even if they’re in the supposed targeted group, like I don’t have any issue with crazy being used in any way even though it’s supposedly targeting those with mental health problems like me. Like if someone gets offended yeah don’t use it around them if you can but I think you’ll get by fine without needing to change your whole manner of speech most of the time.

The world is so complicated

i don’t mean to offend anyone by saying that it just is

 

[Ahsoka]

So if you call someone without a lower iq that it’s ableist basically and if you call someone with a lower iq that it’s making them feel bad about their disability?

It originally started out as a political insult (in Ancient Greece) then became a disability term then they stopped the disability term and it just became a insult again. Kinda complicated

 

[litc]

It originally started out as a political insult (in Ancient Greece) then became a disability term then they stopped the disability term and it just became a insult again. Kinda complicated

I think if it started as an insult it’s fair game to be an insult rather than something like dumb that started meaning mute

 

[MK3AM]

Do you guys find these terms ableist?
I was watching a TikTok/reel/short. There was one talking about some author apologizing for a coloring book. The commentator reacting to the authors posts then said the author was being ableist by saying it was “tone deaf.”

Continued to scroll the comments and found one person ask, “What are your thoughts on ‘blind spot?’”

Personally, I think we’ve reached a period where everything has become so insensitive and I’m just scared to say the wrong thing now. Like I need to research every word I say before I say it? >.>
Talking, typing, expressing anything with words is harder now than it was before. What is happening?​

I've only heard tone deaf with singing and I've been called but I cant make any statements on that
and ist a blind spot in driving I don't get how that's ablest maybe I'm dumb..

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

I don’t find these words to be ableist considering the original meaning of these words means something different.

Tone Deaf: Being unable to recognize the difference in music pitch.

Blind Spot: An area where a person’s view is obstructed.

 

[Selfmate]

the terms aren't referring to a person
words have meaning and just because one is offended by something doesn't make it so generally
obviously maybe through time and prolonged use maybe it will end up as ableist but it isn't so now