no i spell check most of my wrighting
yes the sight hinders the spelling and gramer
i try to stick to words i can spell when posting but not always posible
and the carictor in question was born with a genetic disabilaty witch is what albinism is
you can not help genetics i got realy bad deal with mine when it came to the eyes
but this carictor (theres a h some were in carictor isent there?) gets in lots of mistife and amusing situations (not going to albirate)
but her point of vew is intresting to read acording to my '20"20' frined
i may start trying to check my spelling when this language becomes feneticly spelt ofcourse
but i have a question do you ever wright in the point of vew of one of your disabled charictors and how it effects them
and i don't take ofence becuase of spelling coments i just lought at them! :D
Okay so you went only slitly off topic i had to read the last post twice to understand it
When i say my charictor has a disabilaty it is to give her depth and just to prove that we with sensery disabilaties and any one for that matter can do anything
interesting things like magicle abilaties ect don't just happen to normal '20"20's
but i am glad that i am not the only wrighter who gives other prespectives
;D
Back on topic, one popular character with disabilities is Miles Vorkosigan. Pre-natal poisoning left him with long bones that had the consistancy of chalk. (Kind of like Mr. Glass in the Bruce Willis flick "Unbreakable.") He's hunchbacked, and breaks very, very easilly. He's also clinically bi-polar as hell.
I don't think the issue is with privileging certain viewpoints (proud vs wanting to change) over others. That's just diversity of opinion. It's more of an issue when there's a long pattern of people (particularly people who don't have disabilities) writing about how curing disabilities makes disabled characters normal/happier/better etc.
It's not an argument that can be applied to individual works (like, say, Vorkosigan) because all things can, theoretically, be justified in the text. It's more about the broader context and implications of what you're writing, which can be something you ignore, but is still not something you can avoid, if you see what I'm saying.
I once had an idea for a short story in which all the main characters were physically disabled, (Blind, deaf, paraplegic, quadruple amputee), but they all had compensating powers or abilities.
However in my novel I am working on the main character is not disabled but disfigured from massive burn scars that he acquired as a child, which has given him a bit of a complex when it comes to fire and more specifically fire magic. He will eventually overcome this block but it will not be fast or easy.
I need to do some research into the physiological ramifications of burns to make it more believable.
The main reason that I personally have never written main characters with disabilities is not because I am afraid of offending someone but because I could not write a character who has lived their life without something that i have taken for granted all my life. I would not be able to portray it in a way that would satisfy my inner perfectionist.