*Reads beginning of fic, vomits into mouth, can't finish* So nice of you to inflict that on me.
I realized a few months ago that every single original novel idea either starred a character with disabilities or had a character with disabilities in an important position with lots of screen time. The one novel that didn't has the character gain two disabilities at the end and carry them on through the next two books in the trilogy. Only one of them shares my disability, but still. All of them are plot movers. This is a drop in the bucket, but I kinda hope kids with disabilities will run across them instead of The Secret Garden. I also am now making a concerted effort to write more characters with disabilities in my fic, so that there's one more person out there writing things like the above monstrosity. I don't know about you, but I don't think I have the stomach to comment on it.
The portrayal of characters with disabilities (and their parents) is one of the reasons I fell hard and fast for Avatar the last Airbender. That's pop culture, yes? Maybe that'll do some good. Also, their fandom seems to have less fail in that area (though like all fandoms, it makes up for it in others).
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Date: 2009-10-22 03:25 pm (UTC)I realized a few months ago that every single original novel idea either starred a character with disabilities or had a character with disabilities in an important position with lots of screen time. The one novel that didn't has the character gain two disabilities at the end and carry them on through the next two books in the trilogy. Only one of them shares my disability, but still. All of them are plot movers. This is a drop in the bucket, but I kinda hope kids with disabilities will run across them instead of The Secret Garden. I also am now making a concerted effort to write more characters with disabilities in my fic, so that there's one more person out there writing things like the above monstrosity. I don't know about you, but I don't think I have the stomach to comment on it.
The portrayal of characters with disabilities (and their parents) is one of the reasons I fell hard and fast for Avatar the last Airbender. That's pop culture, yes? Maybe that'll do some good. Also, their fandom seems to have less fail in that area (though like all fandoms, it makes up for it in others).