I don't know how suitable these will be, but here's some:
- There's a guy in the jdrama version of Cat Street who has a stutter and I think a kind of nervous thing, so he communicates through dance or something (I can't remember, the jdrama kind of bored me) so you could check it out.
- Would you consider Rui from the various Hana Yori Dango incarnations as having autism? It's probably more pronounced in Meteor Garden but I can't remember if you've seen that or not.
- I haven't seen it yet but I've been reading summaries for the jdrama Innocent Love and I hear that one of the characters is mentally impaired after a coma or something? I'm not sure if that fits the disability thing since it didn't occur at birth, but it might help. Plus you'd get to see IL for the lulz! I'm totally downloading it later, it seems hilarious FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS.
- I haven't seen it yet but the main guy in Tree of Heaven is mute, although I think he regains his speech after falling into a taboo-filled love affair with his step-sister.
I feel like there should be about 203492834 kdramas with this issue, but apparently not.
- There's a movie called Pumpkin where the main guy has both physical and developmental disabilities, but it's okay because Christina Ricci gets a crush on him regardless.
- The sister in Code Geass (anime) is blind and in a wheelchair, but I never finished the series so I can't remember exactly why.
- I don't know if you've read Isobelle Carmody's excellent YA fantasy series, The Obernewtyn Chronicles, but one of the major characters is blind. You should definitely check them out, they're a great story.
- I feel a bit dirty reccing this, but one of the VC Andrews series has a deaf cousin in it. The first book is Melody and it's actually my favourite VC Andrews series. Shhh!
I feel there should be more but that's all I can remember at the moment, if any of these help then I'm glad to be of service! I'm off to watch a few eps of WWL now so I can catch up to you - I got your emails but haven't replied yet because I didn't want to read spoilers for ep 4. Have you gone past that yet? YAY MULLET TIME!
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- There's a guy in the jdrama version of Cat Street who has a stutter and I think a kind of nervous thing, so he communicates through dance or something (I can't remember, the jdrama kind of bored me) so you could check it out.
- Would you consider Rui from the various Hana Yori Dango incarnations as having autism? It's probably more pronounced in Meteor Garden but I can't remember if you've seen that or not.
- I haven't seen it yet but I've been reading summaries for the jdrama Innocent Love and I hear that one of the characters is mentally impaired after a coma or something? I'm not sure if that fits the disability thing since it didn't occur at birth, but it might help. Plus you'd get to see IL for the lulz! I'm totally downloading it later, it seems hilarious FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS.
- I haven't seen it yet but the main guy in Tree of Heaven is mute, although I think he regains his speech after falling into a taboo-filled love affair with his step-sister.
I feel like there should be about 203492834 kdramas with this issue, but apparently not.
- There's a movie called Pumpkin where the main guy has both physical and developmental disabilities, but it's okay because Christina Ricci gets a crush on him regardless.
- The sister in Code Geass (anime) is blind and in a wheelchair, but I never finished the series so I can't remember exactly why.
- I don't know if you've read Isobelle Carmody's excellent YA fantasy series, The Obernewtyn Chronicles, but one of the major characters is blind. You should definitely check them out, they're a great story.
- I feel a bit dirty reccing this, but one of the VC Andrews series has a deaf cousin in it. The first book is Melody and it's actually my favourite VC Andrews series. Shhh!
I feel there should be more but that's all I can remember at the moment, if any of these help then I'm glad to be of service! I'm off to watch a few eps of WWL now so I can catch up to you - I got your emails but haven't replied yet because I didn't want to read spoilers for ep 4. Have you gone past that yet? YAY MULLET TIME!