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[chordatesrock]

I do know that accessportrayal is my community and I can make arbitrary decisions about it if I want to, but since the access_fandom crowd is a big chunk of potential membership, I feel like asking opinions. I've been considering adding my own article, not about a specific disability, but about disabilities that magically go away, because I've had this happen to me and putting those experiences into words could be useful for writers who choose (against all attempts to persuade them otherwise) to go that route with their characters. Do you think that's a good idea (especially for fanfic writers who have no choice) or will it just encourage more of this kind of plot twist?

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Re: Well...

[chordatesrock]

I always wonder why, when a piece of assistive technology more than compensates, it doesn't end up used by everyone? I'd like to see different spectra just because seeing different spectra sounds cool.

If you can see magic and everyone is magic, doesn't that still leave you unable to see walls and potholes?

Do you have suggestions for how best to address all of this in an article that's mostly only meant to be informative about what it feels like if it happens?

(By the way, have you considered contributing your own article?)

Re: Well...

[katiemariie]

Actually, in the case of Geordi's visor, while it allows him to see different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, he doesn't see the band of the spectrum visible to most humans with much detail. For one, he doesn't pick up faces too well. This is how he sees Data. The visor also causes him pain. So it doesn't completely compensate for his blindness; it just gives him a different type of vision.

Re: Well...

[chordatesrock]

Data looks very... pink in that picture. In that case, it would be like Toph Bei Fong or ysabetwordsmith's character, right? I'm not familiar with the fandom we're talking about here.

Re: Well...

[katiemariie]

Yeah, it's just like Toph.