re: #883 Obdicut

How is ‘people with autism’ more specific than ‘autists’?

And I’ve worked with them before. And I’m not just working with autistic people.

Well, autism is only one of their characteristics. So if you refer to them as autists (autistics?) you’re characterizing them by only one of their attributes. I assume that you already know that, and reject that viewpoint, and that’s fine. I only offered it as something to consider.

It’s similar to how in the literature, “people with diabetes” is considered preferable to diabetics.

Largely semantic, IMO, but for some people it’s pretty important.