Yeah, I ended up talking to someone today about it and they just couldn't fathom why magically removing disability at the end of a fic, for the sake of a perfectly happy end, might be offensive. That is one of the main things that bothers me, reading fic where there are disabled characters. There was one that I thought was amazing, even though it did have magical healing at the end... but then they wrote a sequel and ruined it. *sigh*

If people are prepared to write disability badly, get told they're doing it wrong, and learn from it, then it's a positive thing. I've seen even people I respected totally dismiss criticism, though.

Well, apparently, writing several fics with characters who have disabilities at the core without producing a good excuse means you must be a fetishist by default! According to this handful of people I was talking to, anyway. It's very discouraging... If they read the fics and said I was doing something wrong, I'd be happy to listen, but the simple fact that I've written more than one fic with a disabled character shouldn't be incriminating... I worry about this kind of attitude because it means the people who care and are sensitive to the issues probably won't write it, for fear of causing offence, and the writers left will be the ones who don't care.