Disabled Representation - Tumblr Posts

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It’s for an essay project regarding disability and animation

i need there to be more fics w eddie disabled from being quite literally torn apart by demobats, there is no way u can walk w/o a cane after that

plssss it would make the fix-it fics way more realistic and disabled rep !!!

As a vision disabled person, that's a FINE FUCKING LINE YOU'RE TREADING THERE, BUDDY! Let's, just real quick, go through some scenarios. .1.) I take off my glasses. I pick up a pan and try to make soup. Can I? NO! NO I CANNOT! It isn't infantilization to say I cannot make soup without my glasses! 2.) I take off my glasses. I go to my sewing machine and try to work on one of my cosplays. Can I? NO! NO I CANNOT! It isn't infantilization to say I cannot sew without my glasses! 3.) I take off my glasses. I go on a nice walk around the block. Can I? NO! NO I CANNOT! It isn't infantilization to say I cannot walk around outside without my glasses! Disabilities do disable you. There's a reason they're called disabilities. They make you unable to do things. Jiaoqiu is likely completely blind, which I am not. If I, someone who still has some vision, struggle to perform basic tasks like cooking and sewing without my glasses, you cannot expect someone who lacks vision entirely to perform those same tasks without an immense amount of effort and practice.

Now let's go over some things that ARE infantilization. 1.) Making him need help with simple tasks like bathing. I don't wear my glasses when bathing, and I get on just fine by memory. He would not need help with that. (Due to trauma, he should be at least lightly supervised for around a week to make sure he isn't a danger to himself, but that's a different problem.) 2.) Making him struggle in conversation. He doesn't need someone to speak on his behalf, and he is likely perfectly capable of understanding the other person's emotions using only their tone of voice. He would not struggle with conversation. 3.) Making his vision the center of his character. Blindness isn't a mental condition. It will affect how you go about tasks, not how you think. He still has a personality outside of being blind.

Making other characters lead him around is NOT infantilization. MANY blind people have service animals or service workers to help them. Those people are not made lesser by their need for outside assistance. (Also, point worth noting, "Great we got Hoyo disabled rep!" gives the implication that we didn't have any before, which we did. Both Herrschers of Reason from HI3 are disabled. Baizhu, Yelan, Qiqi, Collei and Xiao from Genshin are disabled. This is only counting physical disabilities. I don't know if that was OP's intent, but that was how it came across.)

Great we got Hoyo disabled rep!!! Let's not be fucking morons and infantilise them now mkay????

You know what? I hate how most people think I'm 100% dependant on my mobility aids. Sure I hobble around with my cane and scuttle on my crutches, but I'm not helpless. They're so surprised when they find out I don't use them at home, or that they can hurt as bad as the disability itself, or that my dependence on them is a fluid thing and changes day by day. We have this idea of how disabled people should be— bound to their aids, miserable, defenseless. These ideas only helped me reject the idea of something wrong with me longer, because I didn't look like those people. Most of the time now, I use my aids when I don't need them just because I feel like I have to look "disabled enough" for people. We've built expectations for disabilities, which is funny, cause you couldn't have picked a more unpredictable thing.

I don't expect everyone to be educated, there are so much more pressing things to worry about, but when you have a friend or family member that's disabled, the least you can do is glance at a few resources online or ask them about it. I'm just so sick of family treating this like a big deal, or nurses holding on to me like a toddler still learning to walk when I need to get on a scale, or co-workers treating my cane laying around like a reverent item i will strike them down for disgracing. It's a piece of shitty metal y'all. I don't have a sliver of trust for that thing. Complaining about how cheaply made a lot of aids are to be priced expensive is a whole other post.

I'm just saying, if there was an immediate danger, you won't see me struggling to get away. I'll have already thrown my cane at them and ran. Yes, I have a disability, but I am not weak. You think these beefy arms are for show? You think this hunk of metal I lug around is soft? You think I made it to the end of the day fighting tooth and nail just to sit down and die? I'm fucking feral, fight me.