How We Describe Ourselves

While we discussed people first language versus identity first language a few months ago in a post,, it’s important to revisit the issue when a new twist arises.

And one has. In episode 7 of the Boldly Blind podcast, we discuss how over the past few years, people who experience varying degrees of sight loss other than total blindness have begun preferring the term low-vision instead of visually impaired. That’s understandable since speaking of oneself as being impaired gets the perception of being a bad thing. Low-vision, then, becomes a nice work-around for many because it does describe the condition.

So, in this seventh episode of the Boldly Blind podcast, we review when we might use people first language and when we may not. As noted before in many social settings, many of us still prefer speaking more casually, e.g. the blind pianist, the blind athlete, the blind director.

Take a listen, learn and as always, leave a comment if you so choose.