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Absolutley nothing. It's just a label, which represents a portion of the population that has developmental disabilities. The problem is that the general public's meaning behind that label is more derogatory towards these people than psychologists would like, so they stick on a new label with a positive connotation and it stays for a while until it's widely accepted as the new definition and the public reverts the meaning to the one it's always been.

The most progressive move i've seen to "combat" this sort of thing is by using additive terms "a person with _______" say for instance " a person with schizophrenia", and avoiding negative adjectives like "suffering". It's seperates the person from the disorder/disability and so discourages people making personal attributions based on the disability talk about.

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