By Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts — 2017
Own your activist identity. The world needs more of us out there!
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
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Conceptions of identities are complex. We have a number of identities that manifest themselves in different environments or as composite forms of background experience. So, do neurodiverse conditions like autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, and bipolar really comprise a part of a person’s identity?
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We tend to “believe” in the woke-ness that is “performed” for us. “The more vocal you are, the more confident you appear. And because you appear more confident, you seem to have more influence on other people, who believe you’ll be great at practicing what you claim too,” she says.