What is the correct terminology for a person who is clinically "Small"?
Basically I mean actual "Dwarves", or do they prefer "midgets" or perhaps vertically challenged or something else?
What is the PC term?
In the UK, it's just titch. jk I think it varies by person and by context. Some prefer "midget" in a funny sense, but for the main I would just use "short."
Btw, the official terms for the condition are "dwarfism" and "short stature."
So Oompa Loompa isn't acceptable? Dammit I'm in trouble!
Nooo, wait! I didn't say that. I mean... how am I supposed to know?! Are you a dwarf? Or did you just find out? Poor, poor Matthew. Trust me, it's no biggie.
Thats the problem haunty I'm not a 'biggie', I'm a 'smallie', people like you disgust me!
Hey I didn't mean to offend! You should know that. Well, maybe if you remove the 'h' from the 'whit.' On your Twitter, I mean.
Just playing with you haunty, I'm 6 foot
I think from what I have heard and seen, They prefer "Small person".
Personally, I don't understand "vertically challenged", can you be challenged if you can't possibly change the situation? I think, perhaps "vertically limited" might be more accurate.
PC terms only seem to make a delicate situation worse by not only underlining the fact but making it unspeakable. Short people know they're short and they'll only be offended if it is noted unnecessarily or condescendingly.
So when a small person gets on the bus and I say "awwww what a pretty little dwarf" they don't like it? But when I say "hello dwarf" and shake their hand they do?
certainly the second one is less condescending but why would the situation call for the designation? Do you say "hello, woman" or "hello there, black man" when you meet those people? I'm not Miss Manners, but why be discourteous?
They are Little People, They even have LPA (Little People of America) conventions.
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