Sims 4 introducing "disabled sims"?

"Camkat;c-17288431" wrote:
I don't want disabilities in my game. I play to forget and I'm quite happy that I'm NOT represented here. Furthermore, will it be respectful? This is supposed to be fun and silly. How do you disable someone and it's funny? To raise awareness? This is a GAME. First and foremost. There is a time and place for things like that and a game is not it. There are plenty of real life groups raising awareness and it should be kept to those functions. Now if they wanted to raise awareness by say putting proceeds from a sale of an ep to a cause, then ok, that's actually doing something to help. This "game" has enough propaganda now and I really would be offended if it was in the game because I know they wouldn't get it quite right. Where would you draw the line anyways? There is so many disabilities out there and you can't possibly include them all. You know people would abuse them, (I abuse my able bodied sims! ha!) and I don't think I'd feel good about that.

I know people are trying to be sensitive, but from a stand point who is on the other side, sometimes your sensitivity is too much, we want to feel included, not held on a pedestal and pointed out for being different (even if it's meant well). Being included sometimes means to not take a notice and just go about your day so I can go about mine without feeling out of place.

I agree with this. I have a long term health condition that severely impacts my life and what I can and cannot do, the struggle of accepting it’s something I will always have is hard. I would not want this in my game. For me the joy of gaming is transporting myself to another world for a few hours where I can forget real life. I play to escape, not to make sim self versions of me and have them live better lives than I do. That to me is very depressing.

I know lots of people don’t agree with that, and that’s okay. We are all different. But I don’t believe EA would portray disabilities accurately. I think it would be border line offensive. I find it very offensive when I see some youtubers use my illness in let’s plays. It’s usually handled very badly and I’m uncomfortable with it being used as a form of entertainment, especially when it’s portrayed very badly.
I agree, this is not EA’s place to teach people about disabilities or raise awareness. This is a game. (Supposedly) If I know EA it would be handled very lazily. “Oh look we can make this sim non binary”

Actual reality is the non binary sim acts the exact same way all the other sims do, it’s a label and nothing more with no depth whatsoever.

I have no problem with people disagreeing and wanting to see disabilities added, people are entitled to feel how they feel. Sim Guru Frost said this year the game is a safe space where we can all learn and grow. Based on that statement, it would not surprise me happens. That seems to be their main aim these days, jumping on bandwagons so they can make a song and dance about how inclusive they are on political and social issues. Newsflash EA: The Sims Franchise has always been inclusive, for twenty years you didn’t need to make a song and dance about inclusiveness; you just did it.