@monstersandheartache IT'S SO OBNOXIOUS and it's not like the thing with Clint Barton where they straight up erased Clint is deaf so a lot of people just don't know. Matt is IN CANON blind this is a Canon fact in the show and people are just like well but he's a cishet guy like ok yes but.......unless ur argument is "why is most disability rep cishet white guys" That's not really relevant??? He's still disabled and disabled people get fuck all when it comes to representation and very rarely are main characters but this is HIS SHOW like. Idk that seems like a pretty important fact and erasing to make get like #woke points with people is Fucking awful (but like. People do this with tyrion lannister all the time as if it's not a big deal that he's disabled and PLAYED BY AN ACTOR WITH DWARFISM WHO GETS TOP BILLING. Like. That's a big deal but yeah let's erase that bc tyrion is a guy like. My duuuuudes). And going to @graphicallyill point - YEAH LIKE. and we see him read braille like every episode I think, and Foggy will read stuff out loud to Matt, he's got a shitton of sensory issues like with the silk sheets, and like we literally see him just sit in a corner and scream when his injury with the first fight with the punisher knocks his hearing out bc he can't see now he can't hear and he freaks out. When he's out daredeviling, literally someone hands him a paper and he like aggressively takes it and hands it off to Elektra bc HE CAN'T READ IT. HE'S BLIND. and to make the comparison to Clint again - after the fraction run, they just did a 'hey Tony made Clint super sonic hearing aides so now he's all good' and never addressed it again which is a) bullshit and b) erasure but that's not even what happens here? He's got this cool couple of pages in the comics where he goes over what he can and can't do - he's color blind, he has to fold his money bc with the new printing he can't feel the numbers, he can't tell the differences between receipts the ink isn't raised enough for him to sense it, there's a whole lot of stuff he mentions that's impossible or difficult to do and that translates to the show like. Just bc he can do some stuff doesn't mean he's not blind, he is always blind I'm so. Like why are people like this.












