WHO is using "person with lived experience" now.  I was struck by the 
move away from the brain disease, illness, DSM language!  Here in 
Santa Cruz, we especially use that phrase instead of "the 
homeless".  Now I'm wondering about the origin, the earliest use.

I know people-first language has a long history in the disability 
movement (and is sometimes controversial), and I've heard 'person 
with schizophrenia' preferred to calling someone schizophrenic.  But 
the broad 'lived experience' phrase is newer to me in the peer context.

So, ideas about where this adoption started?  I did a bit of 
Googling, see dates in this century, 2006, ...  Who, when, where?

(Replying to this IRIS email will come to me; thanks.)

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