This happens with the word “disabled” too, so much so that there was a whole #SayTheWord thing about trying to educate people a couple of years back about it not being a negative word or a pejorative, just a factual one, and why euphemisms (“special”, “differently abled”, “handicapped”, “handicapable”, and so on and so forth) are infantilising, othering, and otherwise harmful to the community, but it went about as well as you’d expect…