I think my main reason for including disabled people into my stories is that I find it incredibly grim to think about a world without disabled people in it. I know there are many people who think it would be better for us to not exist, but I think the world would lose so much perspective, so much nuance, if there were only one narrow kind of people allowed. That said, I think I have a lot to learn still when writing disabled characters. But I want those worlds in my head to be just as wild and diverse as reality is, if a little more kind to their occupants.
This channel really scratches my "neurodivergence appeals to neurodivergence" itch. You just blend an accessible demeanor, thoughtful delivery, and attention refocusing asides in a pleasing way. Also, I like your glasses :)
Some of the theory in this was really cool. I think I tend to forget the 'make your work accessible thing' myself. That said I've found writing disabled characters really useful for interrogating my own experience (Cerebral palsy, but I pass as able bodied so long as I'm careful about not overexerting myself so I've always had a bit of a complex about whether it 'counts'). Even though I started out writing characters that were more stereotypically disabled than I was, it served as a really useful tool for spiralling in and seeing where I'd internalised ableist assumptions about myself and other people.
Hi! I don’t know if you’ll see this. I have recently been learning more about theatre. I am taking a class and my theatre professor wants me to portray Laura in The Glass Menagerie. I am completely new to acting and my theatre professor wanted me to portray Laura. It's just scene work in class with a partner. I am not physically disabled and finding myself worrying that I won’t portray Laura right.
Funny enough, in German, inclusion and integration are reversed. Here, integration is adding people into the system without changing it and inclusion is changing the system to be equally accessible.
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I think my main reason for including disabled people into my stories is that I find it incredibly grim to think about a world without disabled people in it. I know there are many people who think it would be better for us to not exist, but I think the world would lose so much perspective, so much nuance, if there were only one narrow kind of people allowed.
That said, I think I have a lot to learn still when writing disabled characters. But I want those worlds in my head to be just as wild and diverse as reality is, if a little more kind to their occupants.
This channel really scratches my "neurodivergence appeals to neurodivergence" itch. You just blend an accessible demeanor, thoughtful delivery, and attention refocusing asides in a pleasing way. Also, I like your glasses :)
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Some of the theory in this was really cool. I think I tend to forget the 'make your work accessible thing' myself. That said I've found writing disabled characters really useful for interrogating my own experience (Cerebral palsy, but I pass as able bodied so long as I'm careful about not overexerting myself so I've always had a bit of a complex about whether it 'counts'). Even though I started out writing characters that were more stereotypically disabled than I was, it served as a really useful tool for spiralling in and seeing where I'd internalised ableist assumptions about myself and other people.
Hi! I don’t know if you’ll see this. I have recently been learning more about theatre. I am taking a class and my theatre professor wants me to portray Laura in The Glass Menagerie. I am completely new to acting and my theatre professor wanted me to portray Laura. It's just scene work in class with a partner. I am not physically disabled and finding myself worrying that I won’t portray Laura right.
I just put up a video about Menagerie specifically that you should check out! Might be helpful :)
Funny enough, in German, inclusion and integration are reversed. Here, integration is adding people into the system without changing it and inclusion is changing the system to be equally accessible.