By Brittany Wong — 2019
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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I put a great deal of emphasis on employment because I see so many very intelligent people with autism and Asperger's syndrome without satisfying jobs. A satisfying profession made life have meaning for me. I am what I do and think instead of what I feel.
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