tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post9124089391248003736..comments2024-03-28T05:59:52.454-07:00Comments on TalkToYoUniverse: Dive into Worldbuilding! - Disability and Accommodation (A Google+ hangout report with video)Juliette Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-20017701057944111152014-04-27T13:24:55.972-07:002014-04-27T13:24:55.972-07:00Yes, well, I did make sure to get this one finishe...Yes, well, I did make sure to get this one finished! I'm glad you liked the post; I felt it was important. I think it's not too hard to work it in to one's fictional worlds... just requires thought and planning.Juliette Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6320269312957801390.post-17364351251177992322014-04-24T18:54:09.881-07:002014-04-24T18:54:09.881-07:00Thanks - I was looking forward to this post - and ...Thanks - I was looking forward to this post - and it was delayed, and I was afraid it wasn't going to happen.<br /><br />I deal with the invisible disability of the main character in Pride's Children (mainstream, no SF, unfortunately - maybe the next one). Disabled people are the largest minority in the world - but have a tendency to have to work so hard just to exist that they are barely seen. Add to it the whole caregiver thing, and the societal belief that someone disabled has done 'something wrong' - and it could never happen to them - and it brings up a lot of fear.<br /><br />Whereas being disabled just is. You deal with it - as with anything else in life - as well as you can (and whine if you're a whiner).<br /><br />Pretending it doesn't exist DOESN'T make it go away it just makes your mother, your child, yourself feel invisible unless bothering other people.<br /><br />It doesn't actually take that much more space in fiction to deal with disability - a piece here and there, and then writing that does double duty: "He rolled up the ramp" instead of "He strode up the ramp."<br /><br />Like aging. Most people in fiction are young and healthy. Not complaining - you have to be energetic and mobile for many of the adventures humans get into. But not all.<br /><br />Good post. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com