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⌈ Secret Post #3592 ⌋

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Re: Self diagnosed mental issues

[(Anonymous)]

two very different issues but I will start by saying Person First language is not new or exclusive to autism. Its commonly taught in relevant fields (such as special education which my girlfriend is studying and that's how I know this) that it is good practice to use "person first language" - so you say for example "a person with autism" or "a person with emotional disturbance" rather than "an autistic person" or "an emotionally disturbed person" because it can make people feel like they are being reduced to one condition otherwise. Of course everyone has their own preferences, and there has been some push against he concept recently(blind and deaf advocacy groups generally advocate with "blind person" or "deaf person" for example), but the idea of person first language is a real concept that is taught as a default in many fields, so your friend isn't getting that out of thin air.

As for self diagnosis, I have mixed feelings cause of course it can be an important tool in actually getting a diagnosis, but I don't understand why people with access to doctors and who aren't fearing stigma causing them to hide stuff would choose not to

Re: Self diagnosed mental issues

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Your thoughts on self-diagnosis sounds a lot like my thoughts. Mum sometimes looks up stuff online when she's worried, but she always takes it to her doctor to discuss and get a professional opinion. If one stops after just looking it up online, one may be wrong.

Re: Self diagnosed mental issues

[(Anonymous)]

Basically as I've had it explained to me, years ago the negative was "an autistic" and the positive was "A person with autism"

Then culture and language shifted, as it does. Autism Speaks really started pushing "Person with autism, cure the autism and save the person!" and pushing the narrative of autism as a disease that steals away healthy babies. So person-first got associated as the bad, and the current trend is to use "Autistic person, like blind person, deaf person." to try and normalize it as part of the person instead of a disease affecting the person.

And so you get two sides of the fence on which is better depending on which someone learned as the negative term and which was learned as the positive term.

Re: Self diagnosed mental issues

[(Anonymous)]

That makes sense! I knew there was some contention with it re: autism and person first language but I didn't know as much. That makes since though! It does make sense to me that it would be more akin to, say, the Deaf community. Thanks for the explanation!