[ SECRET POST #3125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3125 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Just for the record (not that I think it will change anyone's mind), when I made this secret I was specifically thinking of a character that had recently gone through a medical crisis and come out the other side with partial paralysis, severe intermittent pain, and minor but noticeable body disfiguration. The character hates this condition. The creator(s) of this character are extremely representation-conscious, which makes me doubt the fantastical nature of this work will lead to said character being cured. But if it does I'm positive there will be scary side effects, which I think is fair.

In the end, I just like this character, and I wish they were not in pain.

And finally, again for the record, I've never been medically diagnosed as disabled. I do however suffer from a lifelong congenital condition that causes intermittent episodes of severe pain for which there is no treatment, feeds an existing anxiety issue, and there's a chance that it will interfere with my ability to produce children, an idea that I find horrifying. Despite the fact that over the years my condition has become far more manageable (as a child it was far more pervasive and dangerous, later hormonal changes made a noticeable difference) and my "episodes" have been fewer and farther between, I wish it would go away completely. My life has been positively affected by this condition -- I started homeschooling, which was far better for me than regular school. I would still take a cure. I have learned how to deal with severe pain and live through it. I would still take a cure. I have developed an ability to put the worst of any situation out of my mind, so I could still live life when things looked dire. This ability has also helped me through grief and family emergencies.

I would still take a cure.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I think this should be taken as a case-by-case basis. If you hope a character who was disabled in a recent storyline gets cured, that doesn't seem so bad.

What I get sensitive about is when writers cure disabilities in characters and if feels like it was just done for convenient's sake.

In the early days of XMFC fandom, I remember someone prompting Charles/Erik fic on one of the kinkmemes, and qualifying it with "set it in a future where he's no longer paralyzed, because thinking of him unable to walk or have sex with Erik is too sad."

And I worry that a lot of writers might think that way, they don't want to do research about how disabled characters might still have sex, or go to the bathroom, or get around. They just want to fix it because that's simpler.