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Every time I read the “Toph is a bad example of a disabled character because of her bending.” I want to Physically leap over a table and then flip that table because NO!!!! You do not understand!!!
Toph’s bending is assistive technology!!! It’s a medical aid!!!!!
Toph’s bending allows her to full access her world the same way my mobility aids do, or my medication does. There are times when due to inaccessible surroundings that her aids are rendered harder or impossible to use. Not unlike my own greatest enemy, stairs. However, when she is fully accommodated she’s able to be just as successful and thrive just as much as an able-bodied person albeit differently. Which is the ultimate goal of assistive technology.
Toph’s parents also tried to limit her bending because they saw her as dependent upon them, which is a great example of how society denies disabled people access to assistive technology.
A lot of people have a weird (ableist) assumption that if you show a disabled person being in any way competent, like Edward Elric, Solid Snake, Bentley, Darth Vader or Hiccup, it somehow negates the fact they’re actually disabled
Toph and Edward Elric really work for me because I never once felt like the writers forgot they were disabled. Edward is constantly repairing his prosthetics. Toph can’t read or use her aids on certain surfaces. And these aren’t things that show up once and then never again - they’re constantly referenced through the shows.
Particularly love the scene atop the airship where Toph is rendered thoroughly blind by her standing on an unbendable surface, and Sokka offers her his arm for stability.
It’s so subtle but illustrates how her friends support Toph without treating her as helpless.
We took a long road to get to Toph and we mustn’t double back.
So, first we had no disabled characters or they existed as a punishment, like when a Grimm villain gets blinded or their feet cut off.
Then we got woobie angel disabled (white girl) characters as figures of pity. They sit in bed and cough bravely and bless us every one. At the same time, sometimes the same author, we’d get disabilities and ‘deformities’ as visual shorthand for a baddie.
Fast forward to the 80s or 90s or so and disabled characters had to be rad to the max and better than the abled characters actually. (Still patronising but there was a kind of unsophisticated earnestness to it all. We’re allowed power fantasies too.) And their other senses, of course, sharpened to the point that there was nothing ‘missing’ at all! (Soooo patronising.)
Disabled characters fitting in realistically to their settings has very much been the nicest stage so far, I think.
What we DON’T need is an unasked-for overcorrection to the power fantasy phase, where we complete the circle and find ourselves back at “actually disability sucks and you can’t have fun if you’re disabled and also if you acquired disability as a result of Plot, it has to inhibit your life otherwise you haven’t Learned your Moral Lesson!!!” (aka right back to the first stages but disguise it as leftist)
Actually screw you her new hand is badass and contains a flamethrower that does ×4 damage to unsolicited opinions.
Something I really loved about Toph, btw, is the way the gaang sometimes forgot that she’s disabled.
First of all, it showed the gaang didn’t just see her as her disability. Even though she called herself The Blind Bandit, they sometimes just forgot she’s blind, like when Sokka and Aang sent Katara a letter “written by Toph”. It’s obviously not great that they forget, like when they went to the secret library and forgot she can’t read until they went in and left her alone with Appa (and I’ll address that in a bit), but it shows that they see her as a person first.
Then there’s their reaction to the mistake when they forget. They almost always say “sorry”, and it always ends at that. Never dismissing her and excusing their behaviour, but also never going “OMG I’m SO SORRY I’m such a bad person will you EVER forgive me???”. This way of apologising isn’t just annoying, but it’s also not really an apology, it’s a request for you to stroke someone’s ego and tell them how they’re still a good person, and it requires you to confirm you’re not upset with them to move on. It shifts the responsibility on the situation to you instead of to them, because if you don’t accept this apology you become the bad guy because “they apologized”. Simply saying “sorry” in a genuine way is the best approach - you’re acknowledging that you made a mistake without making it into a big drama, while leaving the other person the option to still be upset about it.
Then there’s the purpose it serves from a writing standpoint. As a kid, if you’re not familiar with disabilities and you watch the show you might actually forget that Toph is blind, because she’s able to tell what is going on in her environment. So those moments serve to show she’s still disabled, and that you should remember that she’s disabled, and that doesn’t make her weak or frail or less than her peers. It’s a gentle reminder to the viewer “Hey! This character still has a disability that limits her in her daily life, even if her aid makes it a lot easier.”
And then the last point is that the gaang are all kids. And as much experience they may have with disabled people from growing up during a war, most of the gaang are just not disabled, at least not in the same way at Toph. And their lack of life experiences means they’re more likely to make mistakes when it comes to disabilities. They do a LOT right and it’s important to show how they handle it when they’re doing something wrong. You can’t expect anyone to be perfect. Your loved ones will forget about your disabilities sometimes, and it’s important they’ll know how to react to making mistakes.
When it comes to disabled characters, you need to first treat them as a person. They’re not their disability. They’re not their blindness or their missing limb or their anxiety or their autism. They’re a person first, and it’s something that affects their life, but it doesn’t define them.
You can show they’re disabled without making them helpless.
You can show they’re capable without erasing their disability.
You can have characters who are more disabled or less disabled, with access to aid or without it, and not forget they’re also a person with feelings and wants and a life outside of their disability.
You want to make sure your badass disabled character is still disabled even though they have access to really good aid? Show what their aid can’t do for them and how they deal with it.
For Toph it was reading, for example. For Edward Elric, we saw how his stumps were painful during bad weather, how his prosthetics were breakable and needed repairs, etc. Their writers didn’t forget about their disabilities just because they had a good aid.
But also, when you show their limitations, don’t show them as something to be pitied. Toph needs help writing a letter to her parents, Ed needs to wear an uncomfortable backup arm while Winry fixed the one he broke. They needed outside help for this, but they weren’t looked down on. They weren’t treated as a thing. They were still treated as people.
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They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.
They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.
Keep talking about Luigi.
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"Oh Elon's just on the autism spectrum, tee-hee!"
Okay, so am I, but I don't make fucking Nazi salutes.
Because, yaknow, ASD or not, I'm not a fucking Nazi.
Don't demonize ND/ASD folks to simp for/excuse this man's shitty behavior, full stop.
Are we sure Scott’s eyes are actually portals to the punch dimension and it’s not just the raw power of his autistic stare?
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Hi! I would like to make you aware of the fundraising campaign by the Palestinian Communist Party and their Youth Union, who are dilligently helping out where ever they can in delivering food and supplies to the people in need in Gaza.
(Here they can be seen distributing water among the population)
Right now they are at 2,865€ of their current 5000€ goal.
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"I know people in Palestine are being tortured, bombed and slaughtered, I just don't want to see it" is an unforgivable statement, and yet too many people, Americans in particular, are comfortable with saying it. Especially given that, apart from Israel, this is America's genocide. 70%.
If you aren't protesting this, if you aren't even showing a sliver of care, then no. You don't get to pretend you're a good person.

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Mural in Dublin, Ireland, in memory of the journalists killed by the IDF in Gaza over the past year
“If you are at war with Gaza, why are you shooting children in the skull and in the chest? Why are you killing journalists, medics, UN workers?”
“Does that sound like a war or does that sound like a genocide?”
—Norman Finkelstein, absolute LEGEND.
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