On telling people with mental health diagnoses and disabilities how to self-identify
Today I read about using "person first" language with regards to people with mental health diagnoses and disabilities in the book Christ on the Psych Ward by David Finnegan-Hosey. He has an interesting section in the book on the complicated language we use concerning mental illness. In the chapter, he refers to a comic recently written by Christine Denewith. Her comic, entitled "I am Schizophrenic, Not a 'Person With Schizophrenia', So Please Stop Correcting Me" provides insi