as small as a world and as large as alone

12:54pm April 28, 2014

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Sometimes person-first language is a good thing.

Many people who prefer it ought to be considered valued members of the autistic community.

Namely, that some people are in situations, not necessarily if their own accord, where the people responsible for their care and…

Or who may possibly be having the experience that they’re far more like the people around them than different from them…that things like movement issues obscure the fact that their core emotional/cognitive experiences are more similar to than different from other people’s.

While my experience is kind of, in some ways, the inverse of that.

Yes.

And a lot of us experience both, depending on what kind of day we’re having and who is looking.

And people whose experience of being called autistic is always an experience of being called less than human, to the point that they’re literally believed not to exist at all whatsoever, to be less than a human, less than an animal, and autistic person has come to mean that entire experience.

And then they try to articulate that and get told by other autistic people that they’ve been brainwashed or some shit.

Which is why lately I’ve been experimenting a bit with using both.

Because those people *absolutely are* part of the community of people I care about.

Yeah I tend to use both as well.

Sometimes I consciously alternate between both.

Other times, one or the other just comes out that way.

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