Citations:ablesplain

Noun: "(neologism, of a nondisabled person) to explain something related to disability in a manner that is condescending..."

 * 2016, Jay Dolmage & Dale Jacobs, "Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium", in Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (eds. C. Foss, J. Gray, & Zach Whalen), page 17:
 * 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.
 * 2017, Samantha Connor, quoted in April Glover, "Qantas pilot slammed for 'patronising announcement' blaming flight delay on wheelchair-bound passenger", Daily Mail, 15 June 2017:
 * 'They just ablesplained their delay by using a disabled passenger as an excuse. And it's a disabled passenger I know. You truly cannot make this up.'
 * 2018, Cushla Brooke Dares, "BEYOND the FORTRESS: Dis/ability, Community and Care", thesis submitted to the University of Canterbury, page 9:
 * “I’m so sick of able-bodied people trying to speak for us, and ablesplaining!”
 * 2021,, The Ink Black Heart, unnumbered page (fictitious tweet in a novel):
 * please do ablesplain why disabled people like me should have to tolerate this kind of fucking “humour” #spoonie #ableism #TheInkBlackHeart