Disabilities and Therapy pets
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 clo...
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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!
- @daikoyu The fact that it could generate negative press is not a good reason.
People are disabled.
People have mental and physical health disorders.
I can make my male sims pregnant by aliens, I can use a 'bubble blower' to generate interesting moodlets, and my sims can be effectively trans with a variety of gender options including the ability to reproduce being independent of their assigned gender.
Disability would be another element of representation and it would be a good one. Having disabled elements in game is something that a big company like EA should be able to do with consultation. The simplest of things would go a long way - accessories like hearing aids, the ability to make one or both eyes 'blind', more scars, and overlays like casts or prosthesis are very basic things that EA could to make disability more overt in the game.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.
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