[ SECRET POST #4262 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4261 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yoooo fuck that attitude.

I'm a multiply-disabled writer. In both fanfic and my original work, I write about characters who are disabled, visibly or invisibly.

Some people might hamhandedly jump in and write about disability/mental illness in a way that shows they don't understand what they're talking about, and might go OOC with it, but most of us are looking at characters and seeing subtle signs that we identify with, and saying 'if this then that'.

You can't 'inflict' mental illness on a fictional character, because they're... fictional. You can write about them dealing with it either well or poorly, but you're not hurting a real person. You're not removing depictions of those characters without mental illness or disability. Hell, plenty of people write canon-disabled characters without their disabilities.

I get pissed off when people portray these things insensitively, but I think it's a good thing that people are feeling free to try and that there's wider acceptance for people to use fanfiction to explore their own experiences with disability, and when you act like this is a stupid trend, and that people shouldn't see X character as disabled, that's an attitude that harms already-marginalized fans who rarely have the kind of visibility in canon that abled people have.

[(Anonymous)]

+1,000,000