o, thanks for this.
I know that the social model is much
> more nuanced than the ICIDH, but the old disability/handicap pair did at
> least _some_ of the same work as the impairment/disability distinction.
I'd be interested to know in what ways you regard the social model as
more nuanced than the ICIDH. I know what some of the claims have been
with respect to causality, but I think they're misguided.
> In fact many autistic activists _oppose_ person-first language because they
> consider autism to be essential to "who they are." Like many Deaf people,
> these autistic people say things like "I wouldn't be me if I were not
> autistic." Person-first language was intended to depict impairments as
> secondary, relatively unimportant aspects of a person. It is important to
> some individuals to think of themselves in this way, just as it is important
> to others to identify themselves with their "impairment category".
> (Impairment category is obviously an especially bad term here, because
> people who self-identify in this way do not think of themselves as
> _essentially_ impaired, but rather as essentially Deaf, or autistic.) Again
> this is not inconsistent with your program, just an observation about some
> other reasons vocabulary might be favored.
>
I didn't know this about how autistic people choose to identify. Thanks
for passing it on. And yes, that was the intention of people-first
language.
>Third, one disadvantage of your preferred language is that it is merely
> _consistent_ with the social model of disability to a greater extent than
> PWD language is. It is also consistent with the medical model of
> disability, because it pretty much matches ordinary speech.
Maybe in your part of the world 'disabled person' matches ordinary
speech; here, however, Jill or Joe Neighbour would probably say that
so-and-so is "handicapped". I would say that the medical model upholds
PWD language.
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> Ron Amundson
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