This is the comment on Person-First I wrote

Thursday, December 29, 2011

This is the comment on Person-First I wrote

Hey! exciting!

One thing though- the Autistic Rights Movement uses the noun “Autistics” (capitalized) instead of the person first model. Part of it is that a number of the Autistics involved survived having abusive measures taken in the name of “treatment” to separate us from obvious signs of our disability, including our own self calming and self stimulating behavior.

My Friend Lydia recently wrote an excellent post about the issue, if I may:

http://autistichoya.blogspot.com/2011/12/people-first-create-environment-of.html

And of course, there’s Jim Sinclair, who has written some of the founding Autistic Rights essays. (I don’t think enough people know how much Xir work has contributed to the budding Autistic Culture.):

http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read/436505/

Just FYI!