Thank you so much for this. The sheer amount of prompts/responses I've seen where Charles's disability is erased ("the bullet didn't paralyze him/gave him a limp/etc") have really bothered me. I think a lot of people just don't understand paralysis (I've seen a lot of "can a paralyzed person even have sex? Wouldn't they not feel anything?)s, and so they avoid having to do research by erasing Charles's disability, but that doesn't make it right.
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Date: 2011-06-18 05:55 pm (UTC)