More Illness/Disabilities/Birth Defects?
Okay so this might be a little TOO real, so apologies if it seems like it is. I have a lot of health problems myself so sometimes I guess I can be a bit desensitized to the whole subject, so please do...
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As someone with a disability, I have been lobbying for this for some time. It is the main reason why I decided to join this board. I have been lobbying for this ever since I found out that they were making adjustments to include transgender Sims in Sims 4. I figured that if they could make this work, why not figure out a way to make adjustments to include disabled Sims? I struggled with finding a meaningful job for a long time, and I think having disabled Sims would actually send a positive message to the world. People could see a version of someone with a disability as a writer, a scientist, a programmer, a business owner, an entertainer, or a politician.
For me personally, my disability is visual. I for one am tired of seeing glasses being treated as little more than some type of Mr. PotatoHead-style fashion accessory. If anything, I think that is more of a slap in the face than not including the disability. My mother's driving glasses and my grandmother's glasses are not fashion accessories but physical necessities.
The idea of creating a separate game for disabled Sims has been suggested before. This is actually what I do not want to see. It is tantamount to segregation, and would not be a realistic view of our society. You would not want a Sims world with separate facilities for Sims of different races or a Sims world that did not allow for same sex couples; how is this any different? A possible compromise that i had suggested earlier would be to modify neighborhoods to include wheelchair ramps and create some disabled NPCs to warm people up to the idea. While I agree that it is too late to do this now, it would be something worth considering for future games.
Fair warning, threads dedicated to this topic tend to get locked. Thus, I figured I should speak now or forever hold my piece.
For me personally, my disability is visual. I for one am tired of seeing glasses being treated as little more than some type of Mr. PotatoHead-style fashion accessory. If anything, I think that is more of a slap in the face than not including the disability. My mother's driving glasses and my grandmother's glasses are not fashion accessories but physical necessities.
The idea of creating a separate game for disabled Sims has been suggested before. This is actually what I do not want to see. It is tantamount to segregation, and would not be a realistic view of our society. You would not want a Sims world with separate facilities for Sims of different races or a Sims world that did not allow for same sex couples; how is this any different? A possible compromise that i had suggested earlier would be to modify neighborhoods to include wheelchair ramps and create some disabled NPCs to warm people up to the idea. While I agree that it is too late to do this now, it would be something worth considering for future games.
Fair warning, threads dedicated to this topic tend to get locked. Thus, I figured I should speak now or forever hold my piece.
