Day 28 of Writing Meme

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28. Have you ever written a character with physical or mental disabilities? Describe them, and if there's nothing major to speak of, tell us a few smaller ones.

(This is a really insensitive question but bear with me)

I guess only Toph counts, since she's already blind in canon. I don't purposely set out to write characters with mental or physical disabilities because:

a) I think it's very insensitive since I write characters based on the plots I want to see them in, and to set out with a plot that requires a character to be disabled is just weird;

b) It requires a lot of research, which is the last thing I'd be doing when I write fanfic. It's for my squee, not the next big novel;

c) While I dig h/c, I don't dig that particular type.

That doesn't mean that I won't read a good story with a character with disability. I'd like to list Spellhorn as a good example of a book with a blind main character (even thoug she ends up sighted for a while). It had a huge impact on how the story unfolded, and it was an accepted fact that had to be worked around. I like those stories.

Also there is no such thing as a small disability - it's big enough to the person experiencing it.


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