ablesplains

Verb

ablesplain (third-person singular simple present ablesplains, present participle ablesplaining, simple past and past participle ablesplained)

1. (neologism) To explain something related to disability in a manner that is condescending or shows a lack of understanding, compassion, or respect for the disabled.
   • The disability needs to be “ablesplained” by a medical authority—and these explanations often usurp the voice or perspective of the narrator and overwrite their identity in scientific and pathological terms.2016, Jay Dolmage, Dale Jacobs, “Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium”, in C. Foss, J. Gray, Zach Whalen, editors, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, page...