From the autistic side of things, a lot of us dislike “has autism” or “person with autism” because it implies there’s a hidden, non-autistic person underneath the autism. Not everyone feels this way of course, but for people that do they may transfer that way of speaking onto other things like ADHD as well.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The whole "person with autism is better because it puts the person first" sounds exactly like the kind of BS that autism can lower patience for, anyways.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

it's just a linguistic quirk, english just so happens to put adjectives first (i.e. "autistic person" instead of "person autistic")

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

The choice is more between 'Sally has autism' (some people think this makes it sound more like a disease, more distancing and separate from the person), and 'Sally is autistic' (sounds more like a character/personality trait, a way of being).

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