Because I am short, but not really short enough to technically be called a midget. I HATE it when ppl refer to me as a midget!
Dwarf sounds like you are refering to a little person in the Wizzard of oz !
Dwarves are mythical cratures. A midget doesn't make me think of Snow White or Lord of the Rings.
cuase i did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dwarfs have disproportionate body parts. I would not like to be reminded of, or have attention called to this fact.
Dwarf makes me think of mythical creatures and the such which seems very insulting to be called such, to me.
My lady friend is a wonderfull person who is perfectly proportioned and just happens to be 4' 9" tall. Someone got in her face about being a "dwarf" and she was offended. She says "Midget" also carries a stigma from olden times but technically she is that and that doesn't bother her. She does find "little person" rather condesending. We met in Aikido classes where she has earned her hakima (Black Belt)and you should see what she can do to men are more than twice her weight and half again her height. The only real issue she has is she insists on wearing very high heels when we go dancing.
its more common
Midgets are proportional, just small. Most Dwarfs have a normal size head and short arms and legs.
midget says Im some what normal
Hate
Dwarves are ****
Small but beautiful. When I think of midget, I think of my wife and the MG Midget. Both well proportion and very cute.
Dwarf sounds like The lil freaks from snow White
•Shorter than normal, although with body parts of normal proportion.
"midgets" generally do not have any physical issues with the exception of their short size.
It is a technical term and should not be thought of as derogatory
It just sound better than "little person" to me.
Because I am only 4' 7" in height. Been called midget for almost 35 yrs now. I guess I am just used to it.
Studied Anatomy and physiology in nursing. There are treatments for "midgets".(HGH)
HGH
Not being either I can't really speak to if its offensive or not to those who are but to me midget has always meant small or little person.
Because this is the name for them.
becase they csn't help the way they are.
Midget seems to be used more often that Dwarf and is often thought that something went medically wrong, bringing a little sympathy. Dwarf brings to mind cartoon characters that are expected to be laughed at.
it is what is own it !!!!
Neither should be offensive, because there IS a physical difference in
the two. It is what it is!!
Good grief,stop with the stupid
"Political correct" BS!!
I’ve just heard that midget isn’t the term to use.
The article says that this is an offensive term.
Bc dwarves have disproportionate body parts so they are saying your body is disproportionate
I am a midget and I will gladly refer to myself as such and I don't care if someone else does too. But when someone calls me a dwarf, I'm normally pretty angry about it. I do not think midget is an offensive word, but I'm normally pretty mad when someone mislabels me as a dwarf.
because it says so in the article
Because dwarfism requires a genetic mutation.
I have seen in my lifetime more midgets so I gess that's why I always see more of them.
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I have seven granddaughters who I refer to as my midgets. They are tiny versions of their Mommies and Grandmothers.
