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David Gillon ([personal profile] davidgillon) wrote in [personal profile] rachelmanija 2015-01-18 11:59 pm (UTC)

I'm firmly of the opinion that the best way to handle disability in fiction is to not give it any attention whatsoever - because it's that person's normal and 99% of the time they won't think about it (or perhaps I should say, we don't think about it) because it's their normal.

It doesn't get you out of doing the research, because you need to know when they're going to run into something they really can't do, but part of the research should be finding out what's noteworthy to us, and what isn't, and how very different that is to what the normies think.

I think it would be difficult to do worse with it.

It does sound that way!

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