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Been discussing with friends how non-disabled actors playing "disabled" roles cause real-time harm to disabled people.
Fellow disabled folks, I would love to hear from you about how media depictions have personally caused you harm.
Fellow disabled folks, I would love to hear from you about how media depictions have personally caused you harm.
For me, growing up a physically disabled trans person who never saw themselves represented in any form of media, not seeing myself represented made me feel like I was alone.
I hated myself. I hated being different. I hated being disabled. I was suicidal from the time I was 5.
I hated myself. I hated being different. I hated being disabled. I was suicidal from the time I was 5.
Seeing so much media where wheelchair users die, often because we kill ourselves or because it often makes non-disabled people feel better to know that disabled people die, I thought that I would probably never make it to my 40th birthday... Which is this year.
I didn't believe I would have a future.
I thought being suicidal was justifiable because "who would want to be disabled?"
I thought being suicidal was justifiable because "who would want to be disabled?"
Often nondisabled writers project their unspoken fear of becoming disabled themselves onto disabled characters and disabled stories.
I would like all non-disabled people to postulate on this.
The movies you see with nondisabled playing disabled characters are not representative of disabled experiences. They are representative of what non-disabled writers "THINK" disabled experiences are like. They are wrong.
The movies you see with nondisabled playing disabled characters are not representative of disabled experiences. They are representative of what non-disabled writers "THINK" disabled experiences are like. They are wrong.
