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[chordatesrock]

Do any of you feel like you need to include All The Reactions like I do? Do you think this is related to internalized ableism?

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[elialshadowpine]

Actually, I had no idea that community existed, so I'll check it out. What sort of stuff are you looking for? General how-to essays, or...?

I have generalized anxiety disorder so for me, in regards to writing about minorities I'm not part of, I have to just bite the bullet and write it -- otherwise I never will. I tend to be perfectionist, though, and my #1 anxiety trigger is around approval of other people. So, getting criticism can send me into a massive panic attack but for me, diversity is important enough to deal with it. But if I'm not careful, I'll spend forever and ever in the "learning, researching, and educating" phase because "What if..."

But I think part of that is also having to accept that even if you do follow all the 101s in the world, that it still doesn't fit everyone, and there will be people for whom you've gotten it wrong, because it doesn't fit their experience. And that's just natural, because no group is a monolith. :)

I have not actually seen Fullmetal Alchemist so I have no opinion there. I actually don't know much about the show!

[chordatesrock]

There's a suggested completely optional template, but the goal of any given essay should be that a clueless writer reads it and anything linked to, and afterward, if xe includes a character with the condition, xe doesn't make any of the common mistakes and people with the condition don't throw the book across the room.

[elialshadowpine]

... I'm going to PM you here because I think I have specific ideas, and that might be better discussed in PM rather than derailing this post more than it already has been!