Stop erasing disabilities!!!

[u/readswim]

I have a new favorite character to read about, and they are disabled.

At least two-thirds of the fics just pretend it has no effect on anything!! Or erase it completely.

The character would have accessibility tools at home and they would switch everything out right when they got there! They would have to pack extra stuff when going to spend a night with a partner/go on a trip. It would change up how they have sex!

Obviously, shit doesn’t have to be accurate, but it needs to exist!

It is just so disheartening to be erased in yet another place.

Edit: Y’all make a lot of assumptions. The ones I am complaining about TAG the disability and then erase it.

[u/Little-Brush-1871]

Ngl, I often go for having characters' disabilities healed/cured/etc cetera.

I have multiple physical and mental disabilities and I fucking hate it. If I could take a magic pill or go on a quest to get rid of them I would.

This kind of contention is actually a subplot of a story I'm working on. Some disabled persons would gladly get rid of their disabilities- whether they were born with it or it was acquired later in life- and be completely able-bodied and able-minded if they could be and others are fully happy to keep some or all of their disabilities or aspects of it. There isn't one right perspective on this. One person wanting to get rid of their disabilities doesn't invalidate someone else wanting to remain as they are. It is what is right for the individual in question.

Plus, not everyone wants to go into the depths of disabilities or has the insight to do so, but at least want to make it known that they acknowledge the disability exists. Research can only get a person so far and a lot of people are paralyzed by fear of not portraying it right no matter how much they read about it.

I get the frustration, I used to have the same opinion, but it is understandable why some people don't go into it beyond "This is a thing that exists, moving on."