Why is the term 'looked after children' now used to describe children who are taken into care by their local authority (another shocking euphemism) or fostered? It's a ridiculous euphemistic use of 3 prefectly ordinary words, which, doubtless will now take on particlar connotations such as those now applied to the words 'special needs'. I can't use the word special about my children any more because the very word seems to imply that they are somehow not developing according to the normal run of things.

But such is our language - (very much) older people used to complain that the word 'gay' had been hijacked by the homosexual community . I have no problem with that, actually, it's a far more economical use of language. I dislike that fact that language becomes muddier as it becomes more politically correct. The whole spectrum of describing people with disabilities has evolved so rapidly over these last 20 years that half the population do not know how to decribed someone with a disability. I find it really confusing.
I understand completely the need for sensitivity towards those people with conditions, but then , for their sake, instead of us lumping all their diverse and very individual issues and requirements under the term 'people with special needs', lets be specific - lets talk about people with autism spectrum conditions, people with tourettes, people with multiple sclerosis, people with ME, why the hell do we have to generalise?