Reality check - using the words afflicted and suffering

[Guest guest]

Dear ers,

I need to ask you all for your thoughts on this. One of my jobs is a

writer. So, I am very careful with the words I choose. I am even MORE

careful when writing disability-related materials.

Naturally, writers have editors. Fine. I just wrote a piece about

someone with a disability which was very positive and uplifting.

Fine. Until my editor changed a couple of words and now the

words " afflicted " and " suffering " are in my writing.

My thoughts on this (now that I've calmed down!) are these are

archaic (ancient) words and this was a poor editorial choice. I sent

the following link to my editor (who does not have a disability) as just FYI.

http://www.lindacrabtree.com/Terminologyforwriters/copyforterminologyf

orwriters.htm

What I want to know is if someone wrote about YOU and CMT and used

these words, are they " acceptable " or " not acceptable " to you? Would

you be offended if these words were used in writing about YOU? I just

want some feedback on this. lol, I have to admit I was pretty pi****

off at this editor of mine today and when I got in the pool really

kicked that water around and got about 2 days of a workout in one

hour. Good way to take anger down a few notches. Hopefully burned a few thousand

calories too lol

Thanks to all for any response in advance,

~ Gretchen