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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8311176" data-attributes="member: 6915329">I am also both disabled (physical and developmental disabilities, as well as some minor mental illnesses) and queer (well, aroace, but still), and I used to work with intellectually disabled adults (most of whom also had rather severe physical disabilities as well) for a living. The way I figure, D&amp;D already has blindness and deafness as standard conditions, which can be cured by magic or gotten around by magical means. It has ways to raise your stats, including your mental stats, both through mundane effort and by magic. And many games have rules for mental illnesses (just got a touch of insanity in my CoC game last Friday). So who am I to say that it's OK to include ways to include or get around those issues but not my personal ones? Yeah, you're always going to have jerks who play as obnoxious stereotypes, but those are jerks; just kick 'em out of your game.Plus, simply making it possible to play someone with a disability doesn't mean that you have a &quot;magic pill&quot; that makes that issue go away. It just means that the game acknowledges that not everyone is physically or mentally &quot;perfect&quot; (for whatever definition of &quot;perfect&quot; you want) or totally heterosexual and cis-gendered, and that's absolutely fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8311176, member: 6915329"] I am also both disabled (physical and[I] [/I]developmental disabilities, as well as some minor mental illnesses) and queer (well, aroace, but still), and I used to work with intellectually disabled adults (most of whom also had rather severe physical disabilities as well) for a living. The way I figure, D&D already has blindness and deafness as standard conditions, which can be cured by magic or gotten around by magical means. It has ways to raise your stats, including your mental stats, both through mundane effort and by magic. And many games have rules for mental illnesses (just got a touch of insanity in my CoC game last Friday). So who am I to say that it's OK to include ways to include or get around [I]those [/I]issues but not my personal ones? Yeah, you're always going to have jerks who play as obnoxious stereotypes, but those are jerks; just kick 'em out of your game. Plus, simply making it possible to play someone with a disability doesn't mean that you have a "magic pill" that makes that issue go away. It just means that the game acknowledges that not everyone is physically or mentally "perfect" (for whatever definition of "perfect" you want) or totally heterosexual and cis-gendered, and that's absolutely fine. [/QUOTE]

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