This chapter turns to look at the manner in which people with intellectual disabilities themselves describe and account for their identities as such persons, drawing on both ethnographic and interview data. Of course, such an approach takes the very real risk of failing what Jonathan Potter has called the ‘dead psychologist’ test, or, as David Silverman (2001) would have it, of lapsing into soppy – or at least questionably rigorous – romanticism. Attentive to the dangers of romanticising sound bites, and perhaps of being accused of treating talk as a window onto the soul, we will start with a preview of the issues at hand.