[ SECRET POST #3125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3125 ⌋

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Comments

[cakemage]

I really appreciate disability representation when I see it, but personally, if I had the chance to be magically pain-free and cured of everything that ails me, I'd do it in a heartbeat, so I can also appreciate the occasional wish-fulfillment cure-all in fiction.

[sarillia]

I think for me it comes down to the meaning behind that sort of story and the way it's done. There are some disorders of mine in real life that I've learned to manage so much better than I did in the past that it's practically like being cured to compare how I am today to how I was at other times in my life. I'm not sure I've ever seen a story that really gets what that's like. A lot of the time it seems to be motivated by people without disabilities going "look how much more cool shit this character can do without those problems!" and no interest in looking at the psychology of it.

But I'm weird anyway. Pain gets treated as the #1 "of course people would want that cured if it was possible" thing but there are other things I'd want cured first if it was possible.

[(Anonymous)]

In my opinion, a lot of the magical cure stuff is written by non-disabled people who are trying to stave off their personal fear of disability. The same mentality that tries to offer really obvious if well-meaning "cures" for disabled people who've heard it all before, or suspects that someone is not "really" disabled or has chosen it in some way, because disability is an uncomfortable reminder.

The issues I have with magical cure fiction (as a statement about disability and the worth of those with disabilities) doesn't mean I detest all of it by any means, nor does it mean I wouldn't wish a magical cure for me in a heartbeat.

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[(Anonymous)]

a lot of the magical cure stuff is written by non-disabled people who are trying to stave off their personal fear of disability.

I think this is a really good distinction, and I haven't seen it made elsewhere in this thread.

[cakemage]

Yeah, I can agree with that. Those are all good points, and I really hear you on how irritating it is when non-disabled people offer well-meaning but ultimately ignorant advice about the latest diet, supplement, or cleanse or whatever, and that sort of attitude can be seen in a lot of works involving magically curing various disabilities. Even worse is when disability is portrayed as an indicator of morality and getting cured is synonymous with redemption. That's definitely uncool.

That said, I don't think that's always the case with cure stories (just, y'know, usually), and I think there are actually a lot of interesting, non-condescending story arcs that could be written about Magi-cures and everything that would go along with such a thing, like patients adjusting to walking, seeing, or being free of any kind of mental disorder and having to completely reevaluate their worldviews and their views of themselves. A good content creator (disabled or not) who's done their homework could probably come up with something genuinely thought-provoking and worth reading/watching/playing based on any of those premises. And then again, there's something to be said for the occasional work of pure escapism.