Comments on: It’s Time to Disentangle Disability from Metaphor and Put Characters with Disabilities at the Center of the Narrative https://www.artsparktx.org/2022/01/20/its-time-to-disentangle-disability-from-metaphor-and-put-characters-with-disabilities-at-the-center-of-the-narrative/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Ryan https://www.artsparktx.org/2022/01/20/its-time-to-disentangle-disability-from-metaphor-and-put-characters-with-disabilities-at-the-center-of-the-narrative/#comment-3133 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:17:30 +0000 https://www.artsparktx.org/?p=11108#comment-3133 You read my mind. Exactly the argument I’m trying to make to agents about my book–a coming of age story about a legally blind kid in the 90’s who ends up working in a sheltered workshop for the blind. He’s a very much flawed, non-saintlike character and also far more than a symbol or a foil. (Partially because he’s based on my younger self). I Googled to see if anyone else was make the same point and you articulated it beautifully.

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