The author here uses "differently abled". As a member of the disabled community, I've never met a disabled person who uses "differently abled".

But also, don't call us crippled. (Some people with disabilities do reclaim that term.)

Likewise, I call myself queer, but don't call me queer unless you are also queer.

Language like this fascinates me, because not only does it evolve, there is insider and outsider use. The cishet community can use lgbtq+, and that describes the same group of people as queer, but it means something quite radically different. Queer is steeped in radical implication in a way lgbtq+ is not.

Nothing in my post is meant to judge you, reader, more to say, "wow! Language is fucking wild!" I'm excited to see where it goes over the remainder of my life.