When I requested a fic with disability in it in the deancastiel exchange, I made sure to give some kind of guidance on how I wanted it dealt with, and the person writing for me did an amazing job. (They had an option of picking a different prompt to work with, too, so I'd hoped if someone did get me as a recipient, they wouldn't be forced to write about disability if they didn't want to/didn't feel capable.)
I've had a somewhat bad experience in the last few days of people, without reading my fic at all, looking at the headers and the fact that I have written a handful of fics with disabled protagonists, and accused me of fetishising disability. I write fic with characters who have disabilities in it for several reasons, but I don't think I should be required to justify the simple act of doing so, because it's personal. But because I don't want to spill my guts all the time on the internet, clearly I'm doing it in bad faith.
(My actual reasons for writing characters with disabilities: I don't identify as disabled but have a minor disability, my father isn't registered as disabled but should be if he didn't cling to his stubborn pride, my mother is going blind, and it's quite likely that me and my sister have the same faulty gene and will be blind by the time we're fifty. Consequently, I a) work out my feelings concerning these things when writing characters with disabilities, and b) want to see more characters with disabilities in fiction because the whole issue gets ignored much more often than not. I don't mind volunteering this information in a time and way of my choosing, but I do not appreciate people demanding it and refuse to do so pretty much on principle when pressed.)
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I've had a somewhat bad experience in the last few days of people, without reading my fic at all, looking at the headers and the fact that I have written a handful of fics with disabled protagonists, and accused me of fetishising disability. I write fic with characters who have disabilities in it for several reasons, but I don't think I should be required to justify the simple act of doing so, because it's personal. But because I don't want to spill my guts all the time on the internet, clearly I'm doing it in bad faith.
(My actual reasons for writing characters with disabilities: I don't identify as disabled but have a minor disability, my father isn't registered as disabled but should be if he didn't cling to his stubborn pride, my mother is going blind, and it's quite likely that me and my sister have the same faulty gene and will be blind by the time we're fifty. Consequently, I a) work out my feelings concerning these things when writing characters with disabilities, and b) want to see more characters with disabilities in fiction because the whole issue gets ignored much more often than not. I don't mind volunteering this information in a time and way of my choosing, but I do not appreciate people demanding it and refuse to do so pretty much on principle when pressed.)