Navigation: Helpful Posts - specific disabilities
[large text: Navigation: Helpful Posts - specific disabilities]
This is the long-awaited sequel to the first post that unfortunately hit the link limit. This part will focus on posts for specific disabilities, while the general topics will stay in the original post. If you can't find any posts on the disability you're looking for, please check out the "Other" section in the first post.
This list will of course continue to be updated.
Amputation/Limb Difference
[large text: Amputation/Limb Difference]
- Constructing Characters with Limb Differences: Discussing Fetishization
- Do Amputees Always Wear Prosthetics?
- Does a Character with Amputation Need a Prosthetic?
- Does a Character with Upper Limb Amputation Need a Prosthetic?
- Designing a Prosthetic Arm
- Making a Character with Upper Limb Amputation
- Genius Amputee Mechanic: Discussing the DIY Prosthetic Trope
- Causes of Amputation
- Limb Differences as a Spectrum
- The "Perfect Prosthetic"
- Can you walk on Stumps? (Sometimes)
[large text: Blind Characters]
- Making a Blind Character: what to add, what to avoid
- Designing a Blind Character: Discussing the Eye Covering Trope
- What to Give Your Blind Character
- Blindness Tropes: Daredevil, milky eyes, and blindness-negating magic
- The Blind Prophet Trope
- Guide Animals: Dogs, Horses, and Their Fictional Equivalents
- Blind Characters with Superpowers
- Echolocation and Sound Powers
- Yeah Another One about Superpowers
- Portraying Photophobia in Pre-modern Times (not blindness specific)
- Options for Managing Photophobia + Explanation of it being a Spectrum (also not blindness specific)
- Characters with Albinism
- Fetishization of Albinism
- Going Blind from an Accident
- Writing Characters with One Eye
- More on Monocular Vision
- Writing a Blind Kitty (+possible accommodations)
- Different types of White Canes
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HoH) Characters
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- Creating Deaf/HoH Characters
- Writing Deaf/HoH Characters
- Another Guide on Writing D/deaf Characters
- Tips on Writing Deaf Characters
- Visual Indicators of a Person being Deaf
- Tips on Writing about Hearing Aids
- Deaf Character Unable to Sign
- Sign Language with Limb Difference
- Writing Out Sign Language (+book recommendations)
- Cultural Deafness Primer
- Steps of Auditory Processing
- Schizophrenia's Impact on Sign Language
[large text: DeafBlind Characters]
- How DeafBlind People Learn Language
- DeafBlind Character not Wanting to be Blind
- On Access and Protactile [not writing advice, just a piece of great writing; greatly recommended if you know nothing about DeafBlindness]
[large text: Facial Difference (FD)]
- Introduction to Facial Difference: basics, tropes, what I want to see
- Constructing a Character with an FD: Discussing Disfiguremisia and the "Mask Trope"
- Does My Character Need a Prosthetic Eye?: alternatives
- What Would Happen to A Character with a Scar Through the Eye?
- What Would Happen to a Character with a Burn on the Eye?
- How Scars Affect the Character, and How the Character Affects the Scar (in the technical sense)
- Should your Character with Scars Hate their Scars?
- Including Characters with Treacher Collins Syndrome in a pre-Surgical Setting
- Basic Information on Vitiligo
- Harmful Vitiligo Tropes/Stereotypes
- Animalistic Characters with Vitiligo
- Animalistic Characters with Facial Differences in general
- Stigmatization of Strabismus in Visual Media
- How to be Normal about the Real Life Equivalents of your OC with a Scar Over His Eye
- Tips for portraying a Character with Strabismus
- When is Putting your Facially Different Character in a Mask OK?
- Writing and Drawing Burn Survivors: basics and resources
- Caring for a Burn Scar: the everyday things
- On Chemical Burns
[large text: Intellectual Disability]
- Introduction to Writing Intellectually Disabled Characters: basics, tropes, how it actually works
- Down Syndrome and Historical Fiction
- Combat and Disability: intellectually disabled characters
- Basic Tips for Writing Characters with Down Syndrome
- Intellectually Disabled Characters in Horror
- Writing Guide for Profoundly Intellectually Disabled Characters
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