I had to carve out a happy ending of my own that included my disability. For those of you who keep saying you want Snape’s leg repaired at the end, you are tapping into that same disenfranchising cultural narrative. Stop it. Stop it now.
I'm really relieved to hear someone say this. I don't have a disability, but one thing that has always bothered me about reading stories that feature characters developing one is that they nearly always are somehow cured at the end. Even though, realistically, the various affected characters will integrate that experience and it will continue to affect them in the future, it comes across as if the writer is wiping away the character who had the disability in the first place. This is probably because the stories tend to end at that point. You don't see them going on with that experience in their backgrounds, much less going on with the disability in the first place. I find that frustrating.
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Date: 2009-09-14 08:57 pm (UTC)I'm really relieved to hear someone say this. I don't have a disability, but one thing that has always bothered me about reading stories that feature characters developing one is that they nearly always are somehow cured at the end. Even though, realistically, the various affected characters will integrate that experience and it will continue to affect them in the future, it comes across as if the writer is wiping away the character who had the disability in the first place. This is probably because the stories tend to end at that point. You don't see them going on with that experience in their backgrounds, much less going on with the disability in the first place. I find that frustrating.