Less able physically due to a disability. I remember an expression about your 5 senses, that if you lose one, the others are sharper in order to compensate.
For example, as a child I was able to sing opera as a soprano who got top honors in competitions. How many people are able to do that? So I've been more able than some people at singing. So what does it mean if I'm able at some things more than other people and not able than them physically?
For some of us disabled means able to do something a different way. For some of us disabled means our body doesn't always work when we needed to (hence the need for accommodation). I hate the able versus not able dichotomy a lot of people try to assign to disabled people.
Indeedy. For some it's about overcoming a challenge. As a society, we're better at perceiving disabilities and options , but we still have a ways to go.
There are communities that prefer identity first language though. Such as the autistic community. That doesn't mean any community is a monolith but I try to follow what the majority of the community wants if I know and can.
I will however respect people who want to be called a person with a disability if I know and I do tend to address the Down Syndrome community that way who I have heard tends to prefer person with a disability.
I am personally tired of not being treated like a person so now I feel like person with a disability is often just used towards me as a performative way to suggest you care about disabled people without really caring about us.
It does. I also want to mention what I know of the history of using person first. It was started by I believe the Down syndrome community because they didn't feel like they were being treated like people. And this was a few decades ago. I don't want to diminish that history.
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related: is person first language important to you?
We all get to choose how we identify for ourselves.