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[transcript:
"This is how it feels when neurotypicals tell me to use person first language.
Actually, you can't call yourself gay. Oh uh, I would really prefer if you called yourself a person with gay, that way you're putting the person before the sexuality.
Actually, I don't think you should call yourself a short person. My child is actually a person with a height challenge, and I would really prefer it if you used person with height challenge rather than short.
I don't know, the word fan sounds really harsh. Can you just say person with interest instead? I just like the way that sounds more.
I don't know if you cashier enough to speak for the entire cashiering community, can you please use person who bags groceries and also scans them? No its not a mouthful.
If you can't treat me like a person because autistic is in front of it, maybe the word isn't the problem."]
Okay if anyone is willing to help I would appreciate it. Im in education and currently getting a masters in special education and we are constantly taught to use person first language. This is the first time I have seen anything saying the opposite and especially since it is coming from someone who is autistic I want to listen and take it seriously. Is the issue that people are correcting OP on using person first language themself, or is it just generally not liked by people?
Person-first language is kind of complicated, and obviously individual preferences vary. But in general, you should use person-first language when dealing with illnesses and diseases. You should not use it to describe an identity.
GOOD: “the person with schizophenia,” “parent who has an opioid addiction”
BAD: “lady of gayness,” “man with Jewishness”
People in the autistic and deaf communities tend to resist person-first language because many consider their condition to be a natural variation in human development rather than something to be treated or “cured.”
That’s the super-condensed explanation. But ultimately, WHAT you are saying matters a hell of a lot more than the order of words you say it in.
To me, autistic is simply an adjective. Person-first advocates will say "you shouldn't define yourself that way" and I say it's not a definition, it's merely a description - I'm tall, I'm blue-eyed, I'm queer, I'm old, I'm autistic, I'm exasperated.
"My child has autism" reads to me like "my child has cancer" or "my child has a bicycle".
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