ARTISTIC ARTIST

WhatThe
WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,052 Championing
edited December 2025 in Everyday life

Artistic artist

Nihilistic nihilist

Autistic person

Please let's not invent terms to describe ourselves. We are not "autistics". It sounds too much like another word we no longer use.

Autistic is an adjective not a noun.

Scope is very clear about acceptable terminology to use when describing autistic people such as myself. Thank you!

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  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 404 Pioneering

    If it was relevant to the conversation I was having, I'd refer to "People with autism".

    I'm a person with a physical disability and I think the person is by far the most important aspect of both those phrases.

    That's just me.

    Good luck being you

    😺

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,052 Championing
    edited December 2025
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1089460#Comment_1089460

    Why use three words when you can use two? 😉

    It is who I am rather than an add-on, in fact it has me!

    Scope, please tell us the various terms you recommend we use - I can't find them - thanks.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 3,562 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Hi @WhatThe

    Here is the link to Scopes page about how we speak about disability and we would say somebody is autistic or on the autism spectrum in Scope😊

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