Everybody, listen.
I know you were taught that person-first language ("put the person before the disability") is always correct. I know. You were taught this when you became a teacher or doctor or when you worked with kids with disabilities.
The problem is that you were taught this by people who themselves were isolated and out of touch from disabled communities.
Person-first language came into being for good reasons. It is not bad or wrong; many people w/ disabilities still prefer it.
But other disabled & autistic people don't, for equally valid reasons.
Discussion about this has been going on in the autistic community for ~20 years at least, but most of the people training new teachers, doctors, therapists, don't themselves have regular, everyday contact w/ disabled & autistic adults or disability pride communities.
"Autistic" and "disabled" aren't dirty words, because we don't think those are shameful things to be.
I KNOW you mean well when you come on Twitter just to snap at someone to use person-first language. But the problem is you've been taught out of date information, and as a result you're often just snapping at disabled people who are using language natural to our communities.
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