Lol, don't worry, I have a bad habit of not commenting on fics I read too. I only just realized the link on my ff.net profile was to the wrong journal entry about a week ago. It used to direct to a book review of The Westmark Trilogy. Oops.
I need to get back to writing CoM. My novel, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and real life ate my brain for a while, but I'm better now.
ANOTHER BLACKADDER FAN! *squee* part of the reason I have a hard time watching House is that I keep waiting for him to do something silly. (The other reasons I find it impossible to watch are some very problematic ways the show treats sick people) but you're right. House doesn't manage to hit the problems I've listed here. The show Joan of Arcadia has a very good portrayal of Joan's brother, Keven, who when the show starts was recently paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident. He finds himself confronting the changed expectations of his family and society for him, and is sometimes a real shit about it, but is still sympathetic. Other commenters on this post recommended it to me, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Avatar: the last Airbender has both Teo, a minor character who uses a wheelchair, and Toph, a major character who is blind. Both have to deal with the ableist assumptions of their parents, and really rang true to me. Other than that, though, good portrayals are few and far between.
Dealing with disability is out of the experience of the general public, but that's in large part because of the system of prejudice and disadvantage that encourages people with disabilities to either interact as rarely with society as possible or act in certain ways within society. It should be simple logic that anyone, with any sort of personality can have a disability, but because of our cultural narratives, it's not.
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Date: 2010-02-12 09:48 pm (UTC)I need to get back to writing CoM. My novel, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and real life ate my brain for a while, but I'm better now.
ANOTHER BLACKADDER FAN! *squee* part of the reason I have a hard time watching House is that I keep waiting for him to do something silly. (The other reasons I find it impossible to watch are some very problematic ways the show treats sick people) but you're right. House doesn't manage to hit the problems I've listed here. The show Joan of Arcadia has a very good portrayal of Joan's brother, Keven, who when the show starts was recently paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident. He finds himself confronting the changed expectations of his family and society for him, and is sometimes a real shit about it, but is still sympathetic. Other commenters on this post recommended it to me, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Avatar: the last Airbender has both Teo, a minor character who uses a wheelchair, and Toph, a major character who is blind. Both have to deal with the ableist assumptions of their parents, and really rang true to me. Other than that, though, good portrayals are few and far between.
Dealing with disability is out of the experience of the general public, but that's in large part because of the system of prejudice and disadvantage that encourages people with disabilities to either interact as rarely with society as possible or act in certain ways within society. It should be simple logic that anyone, with any sort of personality can have a disability, but because of our cultural narratives, it's not.