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Prince Randian, as seen in Freaks, lights a cigarette with a match using only his mouth. If you cut my arms and legs off, it'd be quite some time before I was able to do that.

I'm not disabled and I don't know anyone who is but from what I understand, learning how to cope with a disability is the hard part. For those that have, life goes on as usual. For those that haven't yet, the horror has just begun.

You don't have to showcase them, but have at least one character that gets along just fine living with a disability, otherwise it will be dismemberment porn.

You can raise the stakes as high as you want, especially if they've had no time to cope. But if they've spent years in this condition, the only offensive thing to do IMO is to present any disability as not being able to be overcome (that isn't wasting, like a bacterial infection - ain't no coping with that stuff - you're confined to a bed).

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