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access_fandomI 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?
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?
Re: Well...
Date: 2012-12-05 03:47 am (UTC)I have had experiences that were (and continue to be) wholly positive, so it does happen, but it's not the only problem. I think that... well, I think it varies based on how the disability affects you. If it consists entirely of pain and suffering, or if you aren't able to find a way to do what you want with it, then I think reactions like that are more reasonable. (I think that may be why writers show them so often: they don't think about other relationships to disability.) If it affects how others perceive you, it can be very jarring. For me, having certain access barriers no longer be a problem, or be less of a problem, wasn't disturbing at all; I structured my life so that I didn't come into contact with them, so I simply continued not to come into contact with them. The extent to which you can accommodate a disability may be the extent to which curing it doesn't change anything. Of course, I didn't, for instance, lose a blue placard.
Do you think that sounds right? I speak from experience, but my experience may not be universal.