http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/2012/05/31/looking-into-language-a-study-of-how-medical-students-view-disability/ Changing the Cultural Conversation Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/2012/05/31/looking-into-language-a-study-of-how-medical-students-view-disability/#comment-16 Dave Hingsburger Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:15:26 +0000 http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/?p=84#comment-16 I should have said ‘outraged non-disabled audience member’ sorry

]]> http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/2012/05/31/looking-into-language-a-study-of-how-medical-students-view-disability/#comment-15 Dave Hingsburger Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:14:13 +0000 http://www.disabilityandrepresentation.com/?p=84#comment-15 Wonderful! I have had ‘person first’ language drilled in to me so deeply and so violently that it now comes out automatically. When speaking publically about disability, I need to use person first language to make non-disabled people comfortable! It’s like they love the fact that I have to state personhood while they take it for granted. It’s ok for me to say that I’m a gay guy … no one FORCES me to say ‘person who is gay’ and I’ve never said, ‘person who is a woman.’ However, non disabled people insist that I use language not created by me, about me. I don’t know where this came from but most disabled people I know are disabled people … not people with disabilities. The oddity about sitting in a wheelchair listening to a lecture on why I needed to use person first language from an outraged audience member is apparent only to me.

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