All,
The moment has finally arrived! 🥳
@McCullohMD
and I have been hard at work for the past week putting together a Mastodon instance so that we can create a backup disability and chronic illness community.
It can be found here:
For now, we have set up a terms of service, privacy policy, rules and best practices.
I have plans to set up a Twitter space to go through each of these with the disability community directly to add/subtract/reword things.
@PanickedFoodie @McCullohMD @stevendavis thanks for setting this up as I was just about to invest and start an instance myself.
My only 2 cents is for the term "disabled", while scientifically true, has a lot of weight and negative bias to it (specially in developing countries).
Is it possible to migrate it to difabled.social? I always thought the "differently abled" doesn't put us in an "abnormal" box but just in a different one.
PS: I bought this domain to start one but am happy to transfer it to you for free, no strings attached.
Tags: #thinkingoutloud #humbletoot
@rishi @PanickedFoodie @Steve Hi Rishi, and thank you for bringing this up. Terminology is always very challenging, because each person has their own unique interactions & feelings about language.
We were intentional in the choice of 'disabled' - many have discussed in the past with the community and disabled is generally felt to actually be less stigmatizing than terms like 'differently abled' which shy away from confronting disability head-on. Disabled is not a dirty word! ☺️
Dr. Ashley | Panicked Foodie
Rishi 
Chris McCulloh, MD ♿️(he/him)