Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜☘️Why is it that authors who portray visually impaired people in their books always portray them as having had surgery or some miracle to give them sight as the way to go? Why not have a totally or partially blind person be the genius detective or whatever? Why must that person have once been blind but can now see? #Blind #BlindFrustration #PetPeeve
Anthony C. Bartman@blindquilter Same way they treat autistic characters as quote unquote "inspiring", but leaving the bad parts out.
@rommix0 It’s just wrong. There’s nothing ‘wrong’ with us so show us as people capable of doing what needs to be done! All of us!
@blindquilter indeed. I never really liked that trope either. They did all sorts of people wrong from Rain Man, Radio, to Music.