#gillipopmoji

[calocreek]

Well, I stand on the shoulders of giants (mcyt artists that draw them 100x more creature than me and im jealous)

Anyway ty and have some transparent scheming creature boys for your dash 😘

[cripplecharacters]

is it offensive to call pwdwarfism "dwarfs"? ive heard a few people use it to refer to themselves, is it akin to reclaiming a slur? what are other words i can use if so?

Hello,

So, according to this post by @a-little-revolution, which is a video featuring a few people with dwarfism discussing the terminology the prefer, "dwarf" is an iffy term. It could be taken either way by people with dwarfism, some see it as an offensive term, others are completely fine with it, so it's probably best not to use if if you don't have dwarfism. If someone with dwarfism says it's fine for you to address them in that way, it's fine to refer to that particular person like that, but it's not a term they're all comfortable with

More acceptable terms include Little Person and person with dwarfism in an activism setting. But outside of that context, just refer to them by their names.

Mod Aaron

Hi lovely asker

So my thing is outside of medical circumstances and activism sorta talk, I don't see a need for the terms of dwarf, little person, and so on. If someone comes up to me and ask why I'm short (which has happened a multitude of times) I just say "I have a type of dwarfism". Most of the time people don't believe me especially because I have proportional dwarfism which is a less uncommon type of dwarfism that people don't take into account.

And the conversation of "well what do we call people that look like you" well you call us by our names. If you don't know our names just say "The shorter person, the small person" just normal descriptive terms.

If you're doing activist, or advocating, the general term that is used as a whole is Little Person/People or LP for short. If you're talking about another person, you're probably close enough to that person to know what terms they prefer. Midget is an absolute no, anytime and always. Dwarf—as Aaron said—is iffy with a lot of people. Dwarfism is another that some people like and some people don't. Little person is the most accepted one and even a lot of organizations have this as their names. Short Stature is one I'm honestly not sure about because people with proportionate types of dwarfism (Tuner syndrome, prader-willi syndrome, Noonan syndrome, and many more) are usually given the secondary diagnosis of Short Stature Syndrome. So weird medical stuff here in that not everyone is given that Short Stature Diagnosis it's very confusing and it depends on the doctor and even what type of Dwarfism/condition you have—but my point is some people hate using medical terms to describe themselves so just putting that out there.

Personally I like dwarfism, I don't mind dwarf, and I like the usual descriptive terms for Short. I actually don't like Little Person for myself, I don't like when people call me that, and again it's a personal preference. Even when I talk about myself I say "Short", "Tiny", "itty-bitty", "itsy-bitsy", I call my hands "pudgy" and myself "Stubby", "ant-sized", "The size of a speck of dust", "pocket-sized", my friends call me "Fun-sized" and "pocket-friend"; and even one of my very close friends calls me an "Elf" on occasion when I wear this pair of green socks that fit me comically big. I'm Mexican too so people call me "la nanita", "Chiquita", "poquito", and such.

My argument here is really that there's a lot of normal everyday terms to describe someone, we're not just medical words and definitions.

~ Mod Virus 🌸

[fixing-bad-posts]

https://www.tumblr.com/fixing-bad-posts/741337404503457792/you-should-have-an-evil-counterpart-called?source=share

This is hilarious, your should do this whenever someone sends in a positive ask

[bloggingboutburgers]

it took me way to long to notice your sona's ponytail thing T-T /md

Aaah, maybe because I don't use it all the time? I typically keep it for when I draw stuff that happened in the past when I was younger.

Since my sona's pretty small I can't use big height differences to show a difference in age, so I resorted to pigtails-when-younger instead hehe

[daily-ethoslab]

hmm is it beef? or bdubs? theyre the ones ive noticed the most (other than etho ofc, maybe you do him with himself onceler style /j)

ONCELER STYLE???

[autism-culture-is]

autism culture is thinking "i don't infodump" but every time you talk to your parents you end up telling them details about the video games you've been playing that they don't care about

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[nontypicalnonhumanhermits]

can i just say i love your icon

Ty! i mean, hey, it's a non-typical non-human hermit !

[kishdoodles]

saw your cleo art and i was like "wow that's the most cleo cleo ever she's so pretty" and then i realized you're the one they commissioned their refsheet thing from

so i guess it makes sense

anyway yeah your art is amazing :>

thank you!!! I'm still honoured HAHAHA