Cripple

The term cripple (from Middle Low German kröpel, the Curved ') originally referred to a movement in his ability physiologically permanently disabled. Even someone who birth or by external influences lacks limbs is called crippled.

Because of the importance deterioration cripple is now regarded as an insult, not only finds a physical or mental disability, but an unpopular man means this insult ascribes such a disability. Even in the early 20th century journals and conferences had been established for cripples care. The most commonly used from the mid- 1930s, more neutral terms such as orthopedics, because the term was considered disparaging.

The cripple movement takes this word confidently in the sense of Geusenwortes claim for themselves: since the cripple tribunal in Dortmund on 13 December 1981, one of the most important protests of the autonomous German disability movement ( in confrontation with the established disability assistance ) against the International Year of Disabled Persons 1981 against human rights violations in nursing homes, in sheltered workshops and in psychiatry as well as against defects of public passenger transport Germany also set a rethink. Between 1980 and 1985, the " Cripple newspaper", a journal of the disability movement appeared.

This is the question whether the term " cripple " is politically correct, controversial.