Media with token representation is a lurking cancer.

It eats alive from the inside out.

Starting in the head and ending at the heart.

It destroys until there is nothing left and people do not treat it.

The issue is not that there is no cure.

It is simply so normal that no help is sought.

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Disabled people are not a token to be bought or sold for accolades.

I play video games and watch movies to escape.

I don’t like my own struggles being spat back out at me.

They are flaws of living that do not exist without meaning.

If they are to exist before my eyes, at least give it relevance.

A two dimensional character that exists beyond disability and tied to proper meaning.

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I do not want representation but proper character.

Choose the real or unreal and never this cursed middle ground.

Bind the story to theme like an anchor.

Because the first thing you lose when lost is the audience.

Lost characters stick out in bold highlights.

Cursed to be picked off by the buzzards.