I don't know where else to post this... but I work as a sp ed assistant, and one thing that kept coming up was to be respectful when referring to people...which means to recognize that someone is a person FIRST, not the disability/disease/disorder first.

It dries me nuts when people say "your ADHD child". Please. Your child is a child first. Child with ADHD.

The only exception seems to be with the deaf, as they view themselves as having heir own CULTURE.

See the person first.

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