Category talk:People on the autism spectrum

Identify-first language preferred

Hi, I suggest changing the name of this category to "Autistic entertainers" because the autistic community generally prefers to use identify-first language rather than person-first language. "Identity-first language" in English refers to the simple adjectival form (and in English the adjective comes first), which is generally used when describing a neutral identity - e.g. "Hungarian person," "lefthanded person," "autistic person". Person-first language is distancing language, generally used when you want to distance a person from something negative about themselves (e.g. "person with COVID-19," "person with a criminal conviction") and sounds wrong when used for neutral characteristics (e.g. "person with Hungarianness," "person with lefthandedness"). As such, identity-first language is neutral about autism, while person-first language implies autism is negative. Person-first language also implies autism is separable from a person's core self, which is not how most autistic people relate to themselves. Elcalebo (talk) 12:28, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

This has already been discussed and the rationale for the current name was that the current name strikes an acceptable compromise between person-first or identity first language. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 17:14, 14 August 2024 (UTC)