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Cripple and its shortened form crip have long been considered offensive words in referring to someone with a mobility impairment. “Disabled person” or “person with a disability” are the currently preferred terms for people who experience difficulty walking or moving, and disability is sometimes extended to include people with some mental conditions, neurodivergence, chronic pain, illness, etc. There are some parallels between the recent revival of the word crip by the disability community and the adoption of queer by the LGBTQ+ community beginning in the late twentieth century. As with queer , when crip is used by people who might formerly have been its target, it can be an empowering, defiant term of self-reference and self-definition. This reclaimed, positive use of crip is most likely to be encountered in academic and activist contexts: crip theory; cripping fashion shows. However, the term is by no means universally accepted within disabled communities, and is regarded as degrading or elitist by some. Furthermore, even those who embrace the use of crip for themselves may be offended when nondisabled people use this in-group vocabulary. Appropriateness all depends on the speaker’s identity, relationship to the subject, and the context of use.