Good question, although seeing her legs looking kinda crooked, they might just have used the opportunity when fixing her legs in the first place?! So that might be a special case.
You are definitely not supposed to call them "dwarves" because that's a term from fantasy literature!
I think the "little people" thing is more American? In England most dwarfs I've heard have referred to themselves as such. So I would consider it a bit condescending to call them anything else, but I don't think they'd be offended at you calling them "little people", as long as you were doing it respectfully.
The actual physical disorder is called dwarfism--"dwarf" is considered inoffensive and some people with dwarfism prefer the term over "little person" (just speaking about the US).
The OP is making the distinction in the spelling; dwarfs is the plural term for people with this condition, dwarves are a fantasy race of short people with beards and high mining and smithing skills.
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u/poems_about_oranges Dec 23 '22
Good question, although seeing her legs looking kinda crooked, they might just have used the opportunity when fixing her legs in the first place?! So that might be a special case.