what does doffer mean in english? Doffer A doffer is someone who clears full bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones.
Many of us donât even realise that in our day to day behaviour and language we are discriminating against some groups of people such as those with a learning disability. It is impossible to measure the impact that stigma has on individuals or the hurt it creates for people.
In other words, in the clinical setting, the proliferation of diagnoses has diverse effects, making some people feel more normal, some less so, and touching others not at all. There is no automatic link between a label and a sense of abnormality. Still, diagnosis can seem to confer stigma.