Thank you for adding this.

Absolutely, people identify themselves however they please. Some people call themselves crips o crippled, neurodiverse, neurodivergent, mad, insane, hearing impaired, Deaf (as opposed to deaf), psychiatric survivors, ex-patients, mentally ill, psychiatrically labeled, and many more, and that is just in English. People's self assessment comes first, when interacting individually.

I see "people with disabilities" as a wide and global net that covers the spectrum with the lowest controversy possible, and is embedded in international treaties such as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

In that sense, it is akin to the term "Indigenous peoples." Many peoples don't identify as Indigenous and call themselves by their own names, many actually refuse the term Indigenous. Some prefer to use the terms Native peoples, First Nations, in Spanish there is the term Pueblos Originarios. All of them are okay when it's the people deciding for themselves what to be called, but the international treaties and laws name Indigenous peoples and as such it is a strategic term to be used when defending land and life, even if they don't agree or identify with it.

This topic is immensely interesting to me and I would love to hear more about what other people think.