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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Deaf one is totally wrong. There is/has been a movement where Deaf people want that to be the way they are referred to, not "someone who is deaf." They consider themselves part of a linguistic and cultural minority, and much like you would say a Spanish person, etc. you should say a Deaf person. If you say "someone who is deaf" is negates their cultural background. So go ahead and say Deaf people. [/quote]
Same with the "person with disability" thing.

I am disabled. I am not "a person with a disability." My disability is an inherent part of who I am. Would you say "a person with tallness" or "a person with kindness" or "a person with Jewishness"? Of course not.
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The document actually specifically notes that there is a divide and that some people prefer deaf or blind rather than "a person who is deaf/blind".

My own personal take is that someone came up with a logical rule with good aims: emphasize the person before some characteristic that might tend to exclude them from society.  The problem is now you are pushing this as a new rule of society and not everyone reacts the same way to a particular problem.  As an example, some cancer patients (or people with cancer) choose to shave their own heads and take ownership of baldness rather than waiting to see the impacts of treatment, while others want wigs or some other solution.  And as noted, the rule may undermine other movements that want to emphasize the characteristic. [/quote]

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