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Norion said:
Dulfite said:

I try to not be defensive and angry in general, and I find it especially easy to not get that way when someone presents their perspective in a calm friendly way like you did.

In my experience in special education, I worked with middle and high school students primarily. When other students would call them that, or call others that have no disability that, they absolutely would mean it in an insulting way (like Reddit) and it would boil my blood. I suppose I've been conditioned to just assume when people use that before the word person that they are insulting people because I'm used to working with teenagers. I shouldn't assume the worst, it's hard not to do so though working where I worked.

If your experience had mostly been people being insulting then that is understandable. I'm only in my early 20's but dealing with teenagers still sounds like a nightmare lol.

It certainly can be, but what's worse is having nightmare administrators who don't support teachers and do everything they can to overburden them. That's what drove me out of it.