Check your language

Jul 02, 2013, updated May 09, 2025
Lawyer Natalie Wade was taken aback to find "wheelchair" scrawled on her coffee cup. Photo: Nat Rogers/InDaily
Lawyer Natalie Wade was taken aback to find "wheelchair" scrawled on her coffee cup. Photo: Nat Rogers/InDaily

ROBYN CAMPBELL: I read with interest your article about the young lawyer who used a wheelchair and her experience in a coffee shop (What you see, and who I am, InDaily, June 25, 2013). I assume that if she had been depressed, bipolar or schizophrenic it would have been acceptable for the barista to scribble “nutter” on the coffee cup, since this was a term used happily by your reporter?

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