Language is important and can influence our perspectives of people. Many trainings in recent decades have focused on what is termed “person-first” language, where you say “person with x” instead of “x person.” For some diagnoses this is the preferred term, but in the autism community there is a strong preference for “identity first” language - I am autistic, not a person with autism, because my autism is an inherent part of who I am. We also look at other terms and the use of euphemisms such as “special needs,” and do a brief feature on another famous autistic in popular culture, Tee Williams, writer for DC comics.

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