"MadameLee;c-16798563" wrote:
I'm not disagreeing with you but the reasons that Sims team is looking at including disabilities isn't for the entertainment aspect but for those people who are disabled who actually want to be able to make themselves "realistically"?
The sheer diversity and complexity of disabilities means they have no chance of making everyone's disability realistic.
Like let's say you're in a wheelchair and have been most of your life- and you play the sims-and you can create an almost perfect version of yourself but one's thing is lacking-a wheelchair how would you feel in that situation?
Quite good actually.
I love that my sims are not restricted physically as I am likely to become.
I dread the high possibility that I'm going to end up in a wheelchair. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Did you know that back in 2013 that a woman created a company that sold 100,000 Down Syndrome Doll's and had another 100,000 or so preorders for more dolls? The woman only made the company because her daughter when a child (9 as of 2013, the child was 13) couldn't find a doll that looked like her. It's not just parents of children with Down Syndrome who order this doll-the first buyer was a Mom of a "normal" child but the child had a friend who had Down Syndrome and the parent wanted a doll that looked like friend for her child's collection of dolls.
I prefer dolls without faces. They're more inclusive.
My own simself is almost perfect-but I have 1 problem with the glasses already in game-that when the sim-self goes to work the sims apparently wears contacts-(the glasses disappear) and my other problem is on at least 2 days most weeks-I wear a hearing aid on my left hear and at the moment we don't have hearing aids. (There's one CC type). I view both as part of me when I wear them-I only been wearing glasses since I was 17. I wore a hearing aid from Gr.1-3. Then I stopped until I had to start again in 2013-
The game doesn't include electric kettles.
Outside of the US they are a normal, everyday part of life for many parts of the world, but the realism of them is not included in the game. Perhaps they should include that aspect of GLOBAL reality before the minority of disabilities?
Including disabilities creates too much risk of doing it very wrong. It's safer for the franchise to not include them at this point.
