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

By Jemima Kang, PhD Candidate, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
Alsa Wu, PhD Candidate, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Naomi Baes, PhD Candidate and Computational Social Science Researcher, The University of Melbourne
Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne

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?

Our new study – the largest of its kind – explores how this language has evolved over the past 45 years to reflect our shifting views of mental illness and disability.

We found preferences…

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