Coercive drugging (what its defenders euphemistically call "families getting help for their loved ones") disproportionately affects people with speech disabilities or other impediments to what is considered "articulate" oral communication by neurotypical standards. A person who can "articulately" speak in a neurotypical-passing way in defense of his right to be free from coerced drugging will be taken more seriously by a judge. A person who cannot speak well, who hesitates, who doesn't have the vocabulary or sentence structure of a person coded as "educated" will have his method of speech considered evidence of his presumed incompetence.
Of course, coerced drugging can in itself impair cognitive and speech abilities, so a person can be so "inarticulate" as a result of coerced drugging that he's declared incompetent to refuse continued coerced drugging.
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