How on Earth is 'delusional' ablest?! Someone actually hallucinating is a disability, someone who stalks somebody and has deluded themselves into thinking that they're in a relationship even though they've barley spoken is delusional and can drop down dead for all I care,

Part 1 of My Answer: Er, well your question was an excellent illustration of why.



Part 2: Delusions are a condition of any of a series of mental concerns. So yes, someone who is stalking someone else could be delusional (though those aren’t necessarily linked). So sometimes describing someone as delusional can be descriptive and accurate. However, calling, say, Glenn Beck delusional, or Todd Akin delusional is both poor form (as you don’t have information about their mental state, even if they’re terrible people who are bad at facts) and ableist, because you’re describing them as something they are not instead of [bad/miserable/ignorant/awful/evil]. And that you’re equating ‘delusional’ with ‘bad’ is the ableist part.

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