I feel like people use the concept of Humans Are Weird to ignore and erase disabled people, turn them into inspiration porn, or have them be present, but remove basically all impacts of their disability with “uhhh there’s sci-fi tech and medical care!” and then again ignore all impacts of that tech and medical care. This is a problem in ALL sci-fi stuff, but it gets particularly egregious with this fandom.
“Humans are so weird they can survive so much lol” yeah sure. And they oftentimes become disabled. They become disabled. Severe or even mild injuries can and DO lead to permanent disabilities. Can you talk about that. Can you mention that even once. On my life, can you stop giving characters concussions and TBIs and then they just perfectly recover in record time. Or is acknowledging the possibility that anyone and everyone, including you, yes YOU, can become permanently disabled at any second of your life too scary? Is it too scary to acknowledge that we exist?
If you are not disabled you can still reblog and comment and whatever but be warned I have suspended you over a spike pit. Don’t say some weird shit. I have my hand on the lever watch out
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I love a sci-fi, but this is such a huge issue with it. Yes, humans can survive a lot but we are also so fragile. Show us humans who disabled, crippled, or handicapped. I want to see a human who needs to be monitored around sharps like me. I want to see one who struggles to live on a space ship cause the electromagnetic fields fuck up eachother. I want aliens who see a human be crippled from something they can brush off. I want to see variety.
also, the way this could be explored with alien species. Like aliens could have so many different reactions to this.






















