my friend and i are watching a show and there ios a person talking. i know they have dwarfisim because they showed her on an earlier episode but they dont say her name. what is the right term to call them.
2006-10-29 07:47:59 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I believe they like to be called "little people."
The term "midgets" is definitely not socially acceptable.
2006-10-29 07:49:59 · answer #1 · answered by Lanani 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The PC term is 'little people' and sometimes they refer to themselves as 'vertically challenged' but all that gets tiresome, doesn't it? I'd sooner just call them by their own name, unless their is some good reason for pointing out the fact that they are dwarfs. I would hate to be called "normally acceptable" or whatever whenever I was introduced to someone, or refered to in conversation. Even in politically correct terms, it must get tiresome to have a disability repeatedly emphasized. And I know disability is not a PC word.
PS dwarf and midget are not the same. A dwarf has normal trunk and head, but short arms and legs. A midget is propotionally the same as 'normal' people but everything is slightly smaller.
2006-10-29 16:02:06 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"a person with dwarfisim", I would say.
just like you cannot call a obese person "an obese" or a blind person "a blind" -- because you cannot define a human being by a physical characteristic. Everyone is a person first ans then, they can be "a person who is handicaped" or "a person with a mental deficience".
I don't oppose the words "handicaped" but some say it's better to say "disabled". That's political correctness. I think that both are wrong if you don't use the word as a complement of information. No one deserves to be defined as a "handicaped".
2006-10-29 15:59:17 · answer #3 · answered by pepette 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I wonder if you are watching "Little People, Big World" on TLC? (I love that show!)
Anyways, on that show, the parents, as well as one of the children, are afflicted with achondroplasia, or dwarfism. You would call someone with dwarfism a dwarf, NOT A MIDGET!! (In some cases, little person is acceptable, but dwarf is more correct.)
Hope this helps!
2006-10-29 15:50:31 · answer #4 · answered by allstargurl522 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dwarfs and midgets prefer to be call Little people. It gives them the dignity of still being vied as a person instead of a disease or malformity
2006-10-29 15:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that dwarfism IS the correct term (instead of "midget"). I've heard of "vertically challenged", but that was more of a joke.
2006-10-29 15:50:32 · answer #6 · answered by Paul H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Either Little People, Or Midgets, Whichever you prefer.......I do not believe that it is anywhere in the Constitution that they have a "Certain" correct name
2006-10-29 15:50:59 · answer #7 · answered by Chris B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dwarf seems ok to me. It's exactly what he they are. I've heard the term "little people". That would annoy me if I was a dwarf.
2006-10-29 15:51:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
These days the PC term is "little people."
2006-10-29 15:49:29 · answer #9 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I heard that they prefer to be called "little people" but I don't know that for sure, so it may or may not be true.
2006-10-29 16:04:04 · answer #10 · answered by RNH 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋