ASAN intern Lydia Brown originally published this article on their blog Autistic Hoya under the title The Significance of Semantics: Person-First Language: Why It Matters. At the Adult Services Subcommittee's final meeting last Wednesday, much to do was made about semantic disagreements -- "ASD individual" versus "individual with ASD," and…
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A look at the debate over first-person language and identity-first language.
It's important that we listen to people who are actually disabled or autistic when it comes to issues like identity and people first language.
A group of researchers from Australia and New Zealand are calling for the language used to describe autism and autistic people to be more empowering by using identity-first instead of person-first terms.
Image description: Two screenshots from Autism Speaks' FB page. 1st: July 22, a poll asking for language preference, resulting in 69% in favour of identity-first language (i.e. autistic person) against 31% in favour of person-first language (i.e. 'person with autism'). 2nd: July 27, a post entitled 'Have you seen our new campaign with Julia, the muppet with autism?' - Meme caption: Autism may speak... it just isn't listened to.
