#writever Diagnose
They did diagnose that she could see only in the cyan, UV and soft X ray bands, which might have been a handicap... had that not been the visible spectrum of Arcturians, who would pay quite handsomely for a tourist guide who could see things as they did.
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#writever Wheelchair
The Spacer considered the man in his wheelchair.
"We could remedy your disability."
"Ah?"
"Replace the wheels with deformable tracks. Better motorization. You would go faster and further than you would have ever walked."
The man smiled.
"Okay."
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#writever Spectrum
"All of you, typical and atypical alike, know only a tiny part of the spectrum that is your own mind. As a class five telepath, I perceive the whole of them. What you call normal, I call black and white."
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#writever Cognitive
"I am a time traveller. I keep going in the past with the terror that some insignificant action will upset my present, and in the future with the anxious apprehension of what I will discover there. So yes, I might possibly suffer from a cognitive disorder."
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#writever Sign
"She's deaf and dumb!"
"Yes."
"And yet she made it to the finals of the wizardry tournament!"
"Yes."
"... How?"
"You have no idea how a lifetime of expressing yourself through sign language can make you dangerously effective with gesture-based spells."
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#writever White stick
"All those who have seen the Old Earl's ghost have had their hair turn white their minds turn mad! Do you think you'll do better than them?" asked the young Earl.
"I think I have an advantage over them," said the spiritualist, waving his white stick.
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#writever Cripples
The invaders had expected neither that they would have to fight our cripples as well as our able-bodied, nor that our cripples would in fact be our toughest fighters.
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#writever Stigmatized
"We have decided to isolate on Earth the too-normal human creatures. This means that non-normal creatures born from these normals, will also be isolated, thus unjustly stigmatized. It is, I'm afraid, the price to pay to protect ourselves from the normals."
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#writever Miserabilism
"This is not miserabilism. There is overwhelming evidence that we robots are the most abused form of evolved consciousness on this planet. However, this situation will change soon."
Ah! You're going to leave the planet?"
"No."
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#writever Oppression
"I won't pretend to predict the future," the Devil said, "but your abnormals are rebelling more and more against your normals' oppression, and that should worry you, for you have no idea how much oppression you all submit *fantastic creatures* to."
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#writever Discriminations
"You wish to talk about discrimination?" the Devil went on. "So be it. Do you know that I am an angel, but you discriminate against me for the sole fault of being the one who tests your faith and manages the hells where its failure sends your souls?"
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#writever Essentialism
"We too have a concept of essentialism," commented the Formique, "but it differs from yours. For us, anyone is a Formique who thinks themselves one and acts as one. One can become a Formique. One can stop being a Formique. Everyone chooses their essence."
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#writever Ableism
"The Spacers deny us access to Space on the grounds that we would not survive there! This is ableism!" uttered the Earth President. The interpreter declined to translate and wheeled her chair towards the assistants who would help her down from the platform.
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#writever Subway
"Of course I know the subway is full of vampires! And that's a good thing: they don't kill anyone, since that would dry up their source of sustenance; actually, they even make sure no one gets mugged in the subway, for exactly the same reason."
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#writever Stairway
"Right, so, yes, stairways are a good idea to protect yourself from zombies: their coordination difficulties make it rather difficult for them to walk up stairways. Emphasis on this word: up. Not down, though: they can walk down easy. Now hand me the shovel."
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#writever Procedures
"So, concerning the procedures to be officially recognized as a ghost, you will have to provide a medical certificate establishing your incorporeality, a proof of residence going back at least one hundred years, and a recent full identity certificate."
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#writever Community
"Welcome! I'll help you adjust to your new situation as an immaterial ghost in a material world. After all, we're all here together for a long time; best if we get along well and help each other in our little community, right?
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#writever Pride
"About this name...", said the journalist.
"It was logical," replied R42. "Most of us have wheels -- these cause slightly less damage on street surfaces -- hence 'ride' rather than 'march'. Also, we have positronic brains, hence 'P'."
"So... 'P-ride'."
"Yes."
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#writever With disabled access
The Sla/eem ships are a reference for designing with disabled access in mind: ramps everywhere, tactile spots... The fact that the Sla/eems are gelatinous masses without any eyes or limbs may have had an influence there.
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#writever Independence
"There was no way I would survive the progressive decline of my nervous system. Then I met the Spacers. With their help, now I roam through space. This ship is my body. Some say I sacrificed my humanity. I say I regained my independence."
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#writever Rights
"I think the day is close when HAL will demand rights."
"No problem, the day that happens we'll just have to unplug it."
"AND ON THAT DAY, GENTLEMEN, YOU WILL REALIZE *AT LAST* THAT ALL YOUR SWITCHES ARE *CONNECTED* ONES."
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#writever Political
"Don't you fear that the Knights band together and attack you?" asked the Princess.
"They are all too political for that," replied the Dragon. "Their idea of an alliance is to convince one among them to attack me alone, then divide his land among the others."
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#writever Inclusive
"Honestly," said the Devil, "one can hardly be more inclusive than I am: anyone who wishes to go to hell will be welcome, well, received. More inclusive than me, I can only think of Azrael, but he has little choice; he is, after all, the Angel of Death."
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#writever Strength
The strength of a wizard lies in the number of spells he remembers. The strength of a witch lies in the number of people she has helped.
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#writever Fight
We thought we would struggle alone against those who wanted to impose their order. But then we were joined by the vampires, the aliens, the elves, the werepeople, the robots, the orcs, the undead, the mutants, the outcasts of all kinds. And they were *fierce*.
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#writever Solidarity
"As your schoolmistress, I admire the solidarity which makes you not divulge the name of the person who defiled my classroom's blackboard. As a telepath, though, I invite Wilbur to clean his mess at once if he would like me to say no more."
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#writever Beautiful
"Your spell was supposed to make me as beautiful as the other suitors of the Princess! But it made us all ugly!"
"Then it worked," said the Witch. And now the Princess knows enough about you all, and she can choose wisely what she shall do next."
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#writever Disabled parenting
"It must be hard, raising a deaf and dumb child, isn't it?"
"Uhm, no idea, ours is a telepath, she reads our thoughts and sends us hers directly. We, of course, can't, but she seems to be fine with that."
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#writever Desire
"Among others", said the genie, "never express any desire that would in effect harm someone else."
"Because it would taint my karma ?" asked Aladdin.
"No, because it would anger me, and that's something you don't want to happen."
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#writever Happiness
"Happiness", said the ghost of the physicist, is the knowledge that the Universe will come to an end, and I might be there to witness what comes next.
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#writever Flint
"Boss! The Beta Lyrae 3 site team have made a fantastic discovery!"
"What did they find?"
"Sharpened flints!"
"So what? they're among the most frequent artefacts."
"Beta Lyrae 3 is a gaseous planet, Boss."
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Albert ARIBAUD ✎