 beautiful internet friends and welcome back to Taboo Tuesdays, my favorite segment of the week where we tackle... this isn't a joke, I literally can't remember the tagline. We talk about, we talk about things on Taboo Tuesdays that sometimes people don't know how to ask about or want to ask questions and feel weird about it or ask questions even if they feel weird about it. So we're gonna talk today about something that had never crossed my mind before I was going to become an amputee. What do we call this? How do we refer to this without offending people? You may notice I'm wearing my handy dandy reference chart today. Thanks Gus Johnson for this awesome shirt, I adore it. What's okay to say, what's not okay to say? Now let me just begin by saying I am not the word police. I don't really believe in being the word police and I'm not gonna be offended by whatever you call it. In fact people have said so many things online about me and about it and whatever whatever you want to refer to my stump, nubb, residual lib, whatever, it works for me but I'm gonna go over sort of just a general overview of how the amputee community looks at missing parts of your body and how to refer to those as if you want to avoid possibly offending anybody. Pre amputee life for me, this was again something I never really thought about. I always just thought of like if someone was missing their arm like that part would be called a stump, right? Like that's just what I'd always heard. I don't know if that's what you guys always heard. Side note real quick if you would let me know what you think this should be called and again I don't take offense at anything around this topic. Let me know what you've always thought, what you always referred to amputated limbs, residual limbs as. As I went down the path of researching what being an amputee would actually look like I joined some Facebook groups which are super super super super helpful. I realized pretty quickly that not everybody said stump and then actually some people were offended by that. The medically appropriate term is residual limb. I guess it makes sense logically it's like the residual part of a limb. That is what medical professionals are supposed to refer to that part of your body as. My experience has been that doctors will absolutely still say stump. I know that that is actually deeply offensive to some people in some forums and groups. I know that it's like it's like hurtful to some people. They don't want that part of themselves referred to in a crude manner. They prefer the medical terminology which I completely and totally understand. Now personally I don't care. It's just not something that has affected me either way so I usually just call it my like nubbin. It just looks like a nubbin doesn't it? It's just like a little it's it's it's it's a nub of something. It's my little like it's what I have left. I almost has today to make this video because we live in a world of censored words right where where a lot of words are offensive and sometimes people feel like it's hard to keep up like what's offensive and what you can and can't say and I'm definitely not here saying you can or can't say anything I'm just here to say that for some people residual limb is the safest way to go so if you run into someone in public and you find yourself about to say stump in a sentence and you think wait I don't know this person I don't know their history residual limb is probably the safest way to go so there you go if you ever you know spent sleepless nights wondering what you should call an amputees missing body parts that are still attached. English is my first language I'm just still not super good at it. 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It really means so much to me that you spent a few minutes of your time here with me today. Now if you're an amputee I'm curious what your favorite or least favorite term is maybe there are other ones that are more creative and cool that I haven't even heard of yet. Let me know in the comment section down below. I love you guys, I'm thinking of you and I will see you in the next video. Bye guys!