According to recent statistics, there are 13.9 million disabled people in the UK – and 1 in 3 disabled people feel there’s a lot of prejudice against them. The language we use has a significant impact on the day to day experience of disabled people across the country, and can help to increase the levels of prejudice they experience.

Indeed, whether a disability is mental or physical, the language we use can potentially belittle the lived experience of those with the conditions, potentially worsening the stigma associated.

Previous reports have highlighted the impact that using serious mental health conditions as adjectives can have on those who live with them, such as how describing yourself as “so OCD” when you don’t actually live with the condition can belittle the suffering of people living with the disorder.

Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown just raised a very important point about the power of language