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Jemima Kang, PhD Candidate, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

Should you say ‘autistic person’ or ‘person with autism’? Here’s how language has changed

How should we refer to people with mental ill health, disability, or neurodivergence?

Terminology should be respectful, apt and avoid carrying stigma. It’s also important to listen to people’s preferences about how they refer to their condition. But how much consensus is there and how has terminology changed?

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