Ableism?

  Today I was wondering...we have racism for discrimination against race, sexism for discrimination of gender, but what about for people with special needs? What is the word? I looked it up and it turns out the word is ableism. Ableism? My brother is many things, but he doesn't have less abilities than someone without special needs. He has to work a million times harder me and millions of others every day, and now people are saying it isn't ok to be mean to him because he has less abilities?! This is crazy!!!!! Then I thought about the term used for people with special needs...disabled? My brother has not disabled, if anything he is above abled. He works hard everyday to do things that many people take for granted, and this is what people think of him! Well I have decided to try and stop using these words...I have deleted them from all of my posts (but not this one), except for quotes and I plan to everyday stop the myth of people with special needs being "disabled"! I hope after reading this you will think twice about what is considered abled.