Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth

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daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There is a mild push to “emphasize people first”, i.e. not someone who is mentally disabled, but a person with mental disabilities.

Although having worked with clients who were, the term I learned and used as optimal was “adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities”.

:shrug; I’m not suggesting that’s “more correct”, mind.

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