Dresden Files, book!verse. How is disability treated in the magical communities? Wizards come with increased healing and long lifespans; Harry's badly burned hand has been healing slowly and surely, his brain damage hasn't been directly referenced since it happened (speculations on his migraines notwithstanding), and (skip) his broken back was healed almost immediately. In the practitioner community, we've been told that the talent of precognition is treated as a disability by the non-magical world (and can "leave [the practitioners] open to instabilities"): “It’s a dangerous talent to have. It can leave you subject to instabilities of one kind or another as side effects. Doctors almost always diagnose folks like Abby with epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, or one of a number of personality disorders. I got five bucks that says that medical bracelet on her wrist says she’s epileptic—and that the dog can sense seizures coming and warn her.”
What would life be like as a wizard with a pre-existing disability that couldn't be magic-ed away? How would zie be treated; what effects might practicing magic have on zir disability? If treatment is available but based strongly on technological means, what further difficulties might zie face from the non-magical community and the expectations of management?
Alternatively, what of the results of practicing magic, for either/or/and the practitioner and non-practitioners? From a precognitive or similar talent such as in the previously quoted section; disability caused by others' use of magic to invade the mind; from things viewed with the Sight, such as with Harry's encounter with the Skinwalker in Turn Coat.
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Date: 2010-07-14 04:46 am (UTC)In the practitioner community, we've been told that the talent of precognition is treated as a disability by the non-magical world (and can "leave [the practitioners] open to instabilities"): “It’s a dangerous talent to have. It can leave you subject to instabilities of one kind or another as side effects. Doctors almost always diagnose folks like Abby with epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, or one of a number of personality disorders. I got five bucks that says that medical bracelet on her wrist says she’s epileptic—and that the dog can sense seizures coming and warn her.”
What would life be like as a wizard with a pre-existing disability that couldn't be magic-ed away? How would zie be treated; what effects might practicing magic have on zir disability? If treatment is available but based strongly on technological means, what further difficulties might zie face from the non-magical community and the expectations of management?
Alternatively, what of the results of practicing magic, for either/or/and the practitioner and non-practitioners? From a precognitive or similar talent such as in the previously quoted section; disability caused by others' use of magic to invade the mind; from things viewed with the Sight, such as with Harry's encounter with the Skinwalker in Turn Coat.