“This notion that people with disabilities are broken and need to be fixed – a concept known as the medical model of disability – was rejected and abandoned in the 1970s, yet still persists in media and in games, often through the trope of medical conditions being replaced by superhuman powers or superhuman prosthetics,” added accessibility expert Ian Hamilton. “Moreover, games are often guilty of furthering the myth that a disability is rare, with all the impact that has on broader prejudice and discrimination.”

Is this retard absolutely fucking retarded?
Yes. Most disabilities are a medical problem and fixing it will improve the person's life.
I would absolutely love some high tech prosthetics with weapons built in.

Just because something is a natural occurrence doesn't make it not a problem.

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People who kill themselves because they lose a limb don't do it because society, bottom text or because of internalized ableism.

@matrix Alternative viewpoint: a society that wants to survive is doing nothing wrong in being "ableist" and expecting able bodies from its group members.
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