Lord, I am so tired of the plucky cured (or ignored) person with a disability in stories. A wheelchair is not a tragedy, for crying out loud.
I'm getting a t-shirt that says "Disability is no barrier to sex" and wearing it whenever I'm out with my husband. He's a full-time wheelchair user. Even though we're disgustingly couple-y in public, people still assume I'm his caretaker - even after knowing us for months or even years. Because why else would I be hanging out with someone in a wheelchair?
I was watching Joan of Arcadia (I had to stop), and it looked like it was doing good things in terms of HEA endings for Kevin, who became a full-time wheelchair user after a car accident. Should you wish to look up an older show.
[I'm not a big fan of Professor X as an example of a person with a disability in a story, because his wheelchair floats. I've never read or seen anything that shows his disability actually seriously affecting his life, and it's implied at one point that he's only in the wheelchair because his psychic powers keep him there, and that his powers are "payment" for his disability. YMMV, of course. But we'll never see the damned floating wheelchair keeping him out of a doctor's office because the bloody hospital isn't wheelchair accessible. Not that I'm bitter.]
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Date: 2009-09-15 03:31 am (UTC)Lord, I am so tired of the plucky cured (or ignored) person with a disability in stories. A wheelchair is not a tragedy, for crying out loud.
I'm getting a t-shirt that says "Disability is no barrier to sex" and wearing it whenever I'm out with my husband. He's a full-time wheelchair user. Even though we're disgustingly couple-y in public, people still assume I'm his caretaker - even after knowing us for months or even years. Because why else would I be hanging out with someone in a wheelchair?
I was watching Joan of Arcadia (I had to stop), and it looked like it was doing good things in terms of HEA endings for Kevin, who became a full-time wheelchair user after a car accident. Should you wish to look up an older show.
[I'm not a big fan of Professor X as an example of a person with a disability in a story, because his wheelchair floats. I've never read or seen anything that shows his disability actually seriously affecting his life, and it's implied at one point that he's only in the wheelchair because his psychic powers keep him there, and that his powers are "payment" for his disability. YMMV, of course. But we'll never see the damned floating wheelchair keeping him out of a doctor's office because the bloody hospital isn't wheelchair accessible. Not that I'm bitter.]