I feel like it would be really fun to be able to add disabilities to the sims, like Autism and stuff. I'm Autistic and it would make it easier to make myself in the sims because I like seeing how close I can make a sim like my real self! And add therapy pets too! I want to be able to turn my cat or my dog into service animals and such and maybe sims can become therapists! It would make things more realistic. :D
Autism should be easy enough to simulate with the two traits irrational and hotheaded.
Emotional pets are practically unheard of outside the US. I can certainly see the value of having a pet that you can pet when you are nervous or anxious as it is very calming however we don't have to call them emotional pets as it is completely natural for pets to be like that. So since it is only a thing in the US I doubt EA will add it as the rest of the world would be more like "What is that about". However you are more than welcome to suggest this especially if you can suggest a meaningful way it could be implemented in the game. Problem is that it is very hard to see on someone that he or she has a psychic disorder. I for instance have a schizophrenic in my family but unless you knew about the diagnosis you would never guess it.
I would like to see service and police careers for dogs and cats in the game. I have a service dog myself. I would to see more traits and trait slots in the game to be able to mix and match. My nephew and second cousin have autism too and it varies from person to person so I would love to have a variety of traits options to represent disabilities better. I would love to have a superhero pack to represent disabilities with a comic skill book for them. First superhero with autism in comics was called Johnny Do.
I really think sims 4 is not a good place to add such things, at least not as it is in real live. The topic disabilities/psychic disorder are very hard to implant in this game without negative *press*.
As @jpkarlsen say, this pet thing is a USA thing, in Europa we have very strict laws which animal can officially support you and how they are trained. Animals cannot protect themselves from humans, so we need laws and I think most laws are not enough. How we tread most *not-pets* ...are awful (OT: I am happy that you can here now only adopt/buy small pets in double pack. As I was little, I had a friend which had only a canary in his little cage. The bird was so lonely and don’t was allow to fly, I will never forget this terrible feeling I got as I saw this)
But I am all in for superhero’s(-disabilities) it would be something new. I think it would be funny!
It is not at easy as you would think. You could have the current earbuds as hearing aids problem is that 90% of the time it would be invisible to the player and you can not program the feeling of actually wearing them. They could add more scars as it in the game simply would be another tattoo but you can not program how it feels to be scarred. The same goes for prosthetics and casts.
One eyed blindness could be shown with an eyepatch over one eye but would again not show how it was to be blind on one eye. Total blindness would be out of the question as blind people rely on tactile feedback to navigate (hearing, feeling aso.). Until we can have a 3d VR with tactile feedback this is unfortunately not possible to incorporate in any meaningful way.
I know People are disabled, but this topic is incredibly delicate // I have a little problem here to find the right English word// I’m sorry but pregnant from aliens a other thing as programming disabled in a game. This is so much work, so much animation which needed to create, or want you people left out which suffer from down syndrome? People who need a wheelchair? It is fair? The team recycled so much animation, I don’t think they get the budget to create new animations for this, especially this feature would not come as DLC, not so a topic.
I don’t think is funny if you get a massage *Sim 1 have become depressed and need a therapy meeting* Therapy doesn’t work always with mental problem. I know enough people which try it and, it doesn’t work (it doesn’t end well). I don’t need a remember my sims need medical treatment his lifelong to live and maybe suffer from side effects. I’m sorry but there is nothing funny from this and I don’t get it why some simmers wish that sims can suffer from these things. Yeah, you can now say the team doesn’t need to make it so RL, but this gives a totally wrong message to people. I had enough talk with people which think metal problems are just phase which you will grow up.
I’m stopping now to post here. This Topic makes me incredibly sad for personal reasons. I don’t need *funny mental/physical Disability* and it hope it will never come and if that I can toggle it off complete. Thank you.
While I understand that there are players who want to make their sims selves as close to themselves as possible but I have to disagree with adding disabilities to The Sims.
There's nothing "fun" about disabilities.
Disabilities can be very serious for some people and I do not think that level of real life seriousness should be brought into The Sims 4 or 5+.
Some people with disabilities do not want to be reminded of them in a game they're playing to escape the real world for a little while.
I have serious doubts that adding disabilities to the game can be done respectfully enough.
I don't think disabilities should be added to the game because players are bored and want something new and different to play.
