supercripEtymologyFrom super- + crip.nounA disabled person, particularly an athlete, who achieves exceptional success or accomplishments, whom others view as inspirational.“Roosevelt was the quintessential American "supercrip," to use a term coined by disability activists.”A disabled fictional character with extraordinary abilities or superpowers.“Yet because of the history and proliferation of the supercrip in films in television shows – not only with autism but supercrips with other disabilities as well – viewers are primed for the supercrip autistic and are therefore not expecting (in some ways) a view of autism that comes across to many in the autism community as more realistic or honest.”