#Disabled Character Disabled Actor

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Rather convenient that the sole survivor of whatever catastrophe happened in the mine

turns out to be blind and nearly mute.

[eldritch-ace]

I present some nerdy prudes (oh and Max)

(I really wanted to take a shot at giving them all more than 1-3ish outfits that I think fit their styles)

[dailycrippledcharacters]

Mac (Date Everything)

[Image Description: Official art. Mac, a person with pale skin and dark eyes. They have messy, straight black hair and computer-style tattoos on both forearms. One is strings of binary code and the other is a motherboard-style image. They are wearing black with keyboards and rainbow-coloured discs adorning their outfit. They are sitting in a wheelchair. The arm rests of their chair are made of computer screens. They look vaguely concerned. End ID.]

Mac is a wheelchair user with an unspecified disability.

✨Mac is played by a disabled actor!✨

[kismetconstellations]

@sockdooe, This is the full original image:

According to the Tumblr post I originally snagged it from, it's an early piece of promotional artwork, meant to depict Keith as the series's central character. Shiro is shoved into the background, presumably to illustrate that he was intended to fulfill a Doomed Mentor role.

[disbabeled]

Cast 👏 disabled 👏 actors 👏 to 👏 play 👏 disabled 👏 characters

[Plain Text: Cast disabled actors to play disabled characters]

[wassupmygays]

do you ever think about Kaos (2024) and remember that the entirety of the underworld was beautifully shot in black & white and we'll never see any more of it bc they fucking cancelled jt??

yea me neither

[eveningspirit]

Another Point Scored for The Pitt on ND Representation

After having Tal Anderson on the show as Mel King's autistic sister Becca, The Pitt casting team did another great job, hiring Coby Bird as an autistic patient with a sprained ankle.

He had scenes with Dr. Mel King and Dr. Langdon. Mel had then a lot to explain to Langdon, who hadn't initially taken Terrance's autism into consideration, because "It's an ankle sprain. Autism has nothing to do with the injury." Yeah...

Except when Mel, whose sister is on the spectrum, took over the interview and subsequent treatment of Terrance, she came up with much better--and much more patient-satisfying--results. And she taught Langdon something in the process.

This whole episode was a piece of good storytelling for the MCs, and, I think, enlightening to a lot of people who don't know all that much about autism.

Now, someone might say that the show hiring autistic actors for episodic roles, while the autistic (coded?) MC is played by a neurotypical actress, is not right representation. I wouldn't exactly agree with that sentiment. It's a complex matter, I realize that. Nevertheless neurotypicals are a majority of the population (as are cis-het people, able-bodied people, whathaveyou). And if we would try to restrict playing characters from those minorities to only people who have the actual exact trait, that would also limit the number of stories that could--and should--be told.

It's different with multi-racial representation, mind you.

I still think the show: the writers, the producers and Taylor Dearden, are doing a great job with Dr. Mel King. She's as autistic-quirky as they come, while being professional, confident and empathetic. Which--all those qualities--is a good autism representation, imo. I'm wondering--as many other viewers--whether Mel knows she's autistic and doesn't want to disclose it in her workplace, or she doesn't realize that (because her sister "had it worse"? idek).

As for Coby Bird, I just read his old interview in which he's hoping he could play a non-autistic character one day. I'd say that, as important as it is to cast autistic characters in autistic roles (episodic ones in this case), casting autistic / invisibly disabled people in the roles of neurotypical / abled people, is perhaps even more important. I whish Coby's dream comes true. :)

[politicalprocrastinator]

jedabbey the epitome of disabled ships btw

[smytherines]

my latest adventure in teaching myself Ibis paint. The goal with this one was just to try to define things well enough that I could remove as many hard lines as possible. One neat thing is that the more I do this, the less I find myself relying on tracing and referencing

this is from an old Joey Richter vine someone posted on twitter, but it has Owen Carvour energy so I took a screenshot

[kwyoz]

ew, not the genshin reddit being ableist and insulting a va's appearance.

[noxexistant]

the funniest thing about this fandom is when a livesies fan makes a post about some bold new crazy idea they had and the idea in question is something that literally happened in uksies

[dailycrippledcharacters]

Amy (Big Nate)

[Image Description: From the official show. Amy, a white teenage girl with blue eyes. She has straight brown hair with pink streaks and an undercut. Her nose and ears are pierced and she is wearing red sneakers, ripped jeans, and a jacket. She is sitting in a camo-patterned wheelchair with pink accents. End ID.]

Amy has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.

✨Amy is voiced by a disabled actor!✨

[aroaceleovaldez]

they cast a 28 year old for Tyson 💀

[relevant rants: here and here]

yeah, i saw - i wasn't holding onto hope of them casting a disabled actor for Tyson (still disappointed, just not surprised) but casting a 28 year old for a middle schooler is really out of left field. It's just an odd choice? Particularly given how much they've been emphasizing age-accurate casting so far.

It makes me really wonder what major rewrites they have planned for Tyson's character. Because as things stand currently there's no way to make Tyson's existing character work with this casting. Tyson is supposed to be in Percy's grade, but Daniel Diemer sticks out like a sore thumb against the child actors. Tyson being in Percy's grade is pretty important for the entire arc of Sea of Monsters with the main character arc being Percy combating internalized ableism and establishing him as a character who stands up for other marginalized kids. If they remove that, what's Percy's arc going to be for that entire season? At what point are they going to establish that about his character? Or are they just going to exposition it at us like usual with nothing backing it up and no actual character progression? And in later seasons the age gap is only going to be more prominent - like how is Tyson going to work in BoTL or TLO? Are they planning on removing his character entirely for those scenes? Are they going to remove him as a recurring character in general? It'd be really weird if they killed him off or something.

I'm also afraid for if they do try to keep Tyson's disability coding in some form - cause there's kind of no good way it can go at this point. Either they completely erase Tyson's coding because they cast an abled actor for him and that messes up the entire arc of the book and his character particularly in relation to Percy, or they have an abled actor attempt to portray a character heavily coded as having down syndrome (and i believe they're already doing similar with iirc Chiron's actor is abled but they're doubling-down in the show on Chiron being disabled) and given how they've written the neurodivergence themes (or absence there of) in the show so far there's just no way that'd end well. Like, Tyson's characterization is a little questionable to begin with in the books, but given the show's writing so far it just feels like we're very rapidly ramping up for an extremely ableist characterization of Tyson. Like i'm sure Daniel Diemer is a great actor, but... i'm just getting real tired of the show erasing the entire premise of the series :T

anyways as per my initial post about pjo tv tyson casting theories i guess it's time for me to start tearing stuff apart with my teeth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[teh-nos]

i heard you like shakespeare

[meandtheboiz]

I love Ygor from the new Universal Epic Universe park but I NEED to get overly woke about him not being disabled

[sun-ni-day]

Sandra Mae Frank and Joel Kinnaman  The Silent Hour (2024)