Disability, not "special needs"
Or any other cute euphemism (i.e. "superpower", "special ability", etc)
I continue to struggle with the term “special needs”. I’ve never used it to describe my son, if asked I either reply with “he has disabilities” or “he’s autistic”. Yet when I started my company in 2017 I called it “Special Needs Navigator”. And I kept the name when I incorporated it in 2021. It was only recently I rebranded to doing business as True Nor…
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