Suggestion - Sims 4 - Sims with Disabilities
I honestly believe Sims 4 is the perfect environment to represent people with disabilities. There are very few major games which do so. Elements that could be put in include: Wheelchair Bound Sim...
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I’m writing to share my thoughts and make a heartfelt request regarding inclusivity in The Sims. I’ve been a long-time player of the series and greatly admire how it celebrates diversity by including Sims of various ethnicities, sexualities, and genders. However, I’ve noticed that one aspect of diversity is still missing—representation of people with disabilities.
I believe including disability features in The Sims would make the game world even richer, more inclusive, and empowering for players. As someone with a disability, I know firsthand how important it is to feel seen and represented. I would love the ability to create a Sim that truly reflects me, incorporating my own traits, my disability, and how I experience life.
By providing tools like mobility aids, prosthetics, sensory accommodations, or neurodivergent traits, you’d allow players to represent themselves authentically and tell stories that reflect the broad spectrum of human experience. The best part is that the creative decisions would remain in the hands of the players, making it an empowering and deeply personal experience.
This wouldn’t just benefit disabled players—it could foster disability awareness and empathy in the wider community. For instance, an able-bodied player could create a Sim with a disability and experience life from a new perspective. Even for me, as a person with a disability, I don’t fully understand the experiences of others with different disabilities. For example, I don’t know what life is like for someone with autism—what they enjoy, what they find challenging, or how they see the world. Playing as a Sim with autism could help me understand and empathize with those experiences in a meaningful way.
Including disability representation in The Sims wouldn’t only add depth to the game but would also send a powerful message: that disabled people are a valued and celebrated part of society. It would normalize disabilities as part of life and reflect the reality of millions of people around the world.
I’m confident this addition would enrich The Sims and resonate with the community. Thank you for considering this request, and for continuing to create a game that inspires creativity, storytelling, and inclusion.
I think it would be great to have more focused mental health or neurodivergence related traits, for example a stronger version of introvert where a sim dislikes socialising for too long or with new people, or a more intense version of neat so a sim might get a lot of stress from mess and be much more likely to clean things. We could then create what we want in the game. Representing these more intense behaviours in the game though might raise issues with is it sensitive to the issues relating to them, because the game does rely on repetitive and often exaggerated animations to show sim behaviour. This is fine for things like hothead or neat, but could come across badly when representing something that's already more extreme than most people experience it.
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