#facial differences

i am a little person. i am 4'0, i have ccd and achondroplasia. i have various other genetic conditions that affect me but i will be mentioning my identity as a little person mostly.

quit using little people as the butt of your jokes. no, you cant use the m slur it is a slur, no you cant call us gnomes or elves or dwarves or whatever the fuck you call us. we are real people, we arent little characters or creatures. we are LIVING BREATHING PEOPLE. quit treating us like kids or idiots. you dont have to baby us. quit making fun of little people's heights, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WITH DISPROPORTIONATE DWARFISM. you are fucking ableist if you make fun of little people, you dont see us as people you see us a joke. im sick and tired of people i love and care for treating me as if im a joke and making fun of my height. fuck off

i dont care if we "look funny" or "haha tiny" its so fucking annoying and disrespectful to be treated as if the body isnt a living, breathing, full grown adult.

1. because I'd just like to see it more

2. because it can help expand your unconscious biases of what a person has to look like

For all the criticisms of the original Star Wars, one I will never, ever understand is the outrage towards the reveal of Darth Vader's face.

I remember being maybe six years old, awaiting the reveal with bated breath, seeing the face...

...realizing that it felt underwhelming...

...and then stopping, realizing that this was what (probably?) happens to a face that gets melted by lava,

then having the secondary realization that the fact that [what I now know as] facial differences deserve the same amount of weight and respect as typically-developing faces.

Like...sorry it didn't look "cool enough" or whatever. Maybe take the opportunity to think critically about facial/body normativity, and I mean this in a fully genuine way, not in a "see how progressive I am" way.

That was, in all honesty, my first introduction to facial and body variety as a critical aspect of disability rights long before I even fully understood what that even meant.

There's enough to criticize about the original trilogy. Inclusion of people with facial and body differences/deformities should not be one of them.

Like, yeah: Obviously, in the sociocultural context in which Vader's appearance was revealed, yes, of course, it's off-putting and discomfiting. The audience isn't primed to accept facial/body difference and deformity as equally valid as its normative counterpart.

facial differences/disfigurements for anon!

Facial differences/disfigurements

A flag for people with facial differences such as burn marks, scars, microcephaly, facial paralysis, etc.

Requested by; anon

ꕀ Excuse my inactiveness i haven't been doing well physically or mentally but I will retheme & post most (maybe, eventually)

Requests will be done soon (I hope)

Can we get a disabled version of her?

I just want a disabled character who is genuinely thought to be the hottest person in the room at any moment by the other characters. An amputee, or even better, maybe someone with a facial difference? Maybe they deal with ableism—responding with snide, flirty remarks or witty insults (if they were an amputee, maybe every time someone asks “what happened to you?” or something insensitive of that nature, they make up the most ridiculous thing imaginable, anything from “shark bite” to “toaster accident. It’s a long story”)—or maybe everyone is too busy thirsting over them to be ableist (or, better yet, people just Aren’t Ableist).

Whatever it may be, I just want them to be seen as attractive. Preferably in a way that isn’t as objectifying as Jessica Rabbit, but even if it was, I wouldn’t have that much of an issue with it. And I don’t want their attractiveness to be “in spite” of their disability, nor do I want to fetishize their disability. I just want people to see them and think “that is a hot and disabled person”. Does that make sense?

Disabled people are so often infantilized or dehumanized in a way that takes sex and sexual/romantic relationships away from us. Abled people in interabled relationships even often get comments about how “brave” or “generous” or “kind” they are for dating a disabled person. I’d just really love to have a character that defies the stereotypes.