Term suggestion: Person First Language/Identity First Language

[tesseralis]

"Person-first language" describes language that puts the identifier after the name, e.g. "person with disabilities" instead of "disabled person", "person with autism" rather than "autistic person". From what I gather from Disability Twitter, many disabled folks don't actually like it, or consider it complicated:

• https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/the-problem-with-person-first-language/
• https://radicalcopyeditor.com/2017/07/03/person-centered-language/amp/
• https://autismmythbusters.com/general-public/autistic-vs-people-with-autism/jim-sinclair-why-i-dislike-person-first-language/
• https://twitter.com/BeingCharisBlog/status/1146816856931491840
• https://twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1208391115348553728

I feel like this is an important topic to cover since it's considered "recommended" language in some guides (for example, retext-equality), but being abled I don't think I have the necessary context to cover the nuance of the topic in its entirety.

[tatianamac]

Thanks for submitting, @tesseralis ! Yes, that's been my observation as well wrt what the disabled folks I follow on Twitter say; I've mostly seen people with disabilities (PwD) used by able-bodied people who work in accessibility.

I also think that on other axes, person-first language is a positive thing when in the case of race "Black people" versus "Blacks" and "Asian people" versus "Asians."

I think ourse of action to not put this entire labour on a disabled person could be for me to write an entry and ask for sensitivity readers.