I Call Upon the Power of The Internets!

[alianora]

Hi, my favorite people! I need some help, please.

As a special ed teacher, I get rather..irrationally excited when I come across a story, book, tv show, or movie where there is a major character with a disability. I would really love to find more, but to do so, I need your help.

If you happen to know of a book - kid's book, picture book, novel, whatever - a tv show, asian drama, movie, pamphlet, song, WHATEVER - that has a person with a disability as a MAJOR CHARACTER (not main, necessarily, just major), would you please tell me about it?

Now, to clarify: I'm not looking for things like "Radio," or "Riding the Bus with My Sister," so much as I'm looking for things like "Sue Thomas, F.B.EYE," or "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." But whatever you can think of, please share.



Here's my very partial list, which I hope you will help me add to:

Deaf:
Sue Thomas, F.B.EYE - tv - main character
Summer Snow - jdrama - brother
She's All That - tv - brother
Hear No Evil, See No Evil - movie - main
Orange Days - jdrama - main


Blindness:
Hear No Evil, See No Evil - movie - main
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken - movie - main
Blade Trinity - movie - major character


Emotional/Behavioral:
Torey L Hayden books


Autism:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - book - main
Kristy and the Secret of Susan - book - main
Marathon - jmovie - main


Developmental:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - movie - brother
The Other Sister - movie - main
South Park - tv - Timmy
I Am Sam - movie - main


Downs Syndrome:
Life Goes On - tv - main

Physical:
Vorkosigan novels - Bujold - main - dwarfism, brittle bones, possible bipolar
South Park - tv - Jimmy
Summer Snow - jdrama - main - medical heart condition
The Station Agent - movie - main - dwarfism
Joan of Arcadia - tv - brother - paraplegic



Drama people, I would LOVE to know of more dramas with people with disabilities.

Comments

[gajenx.livejournal.com]

Hello I am Bree's husband and she asked me to add to your list there. I have a degree in Hearing Impaired Education . From my own collection for People who are Deaf or HH (Hard of Hearing) you have the book "Deaf Like Me", there is the play "Children of a Lesser God" and you can check this link out to see what Marlee Matlin does, since she is a major Deaf actress http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559144/. There is also the books "Deaf child Crossing", "Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture", "deaf Heritage", and "Train go sorry" Also since Thomas Edison was deaf in his left ear anything with him could fall into the HH or Physical Impairment areas

If you want a child that would qualify as OHI due to illness is Sadako and the 1000 Paper cranes, though depending on your state should might instead be 504.

also They now know after exhuming the body Albert Einstein's brain had the genetic marker to show he was on the ASD spectrum.

Then for famous people who are ADD/ADHD you have Jim Carrey, Prince Charles, cher, Tom cruise, Walk disney, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ozzy Osbourne. for a list of some famous people with ADD/ADHD you can go to http://www.adhdrelief.com/famous.html.

Then for Emotional/Behavior stuff you have one of the U.S.'s most famous poets who was diagnosed to be clinically depressed Edger Allen Poe.

I hope this helps some.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful! Thanks! Train Go Sorry was the one I was destroying my brain trying to remember the title of earlier today. And, of course, Marlee - we all love Marlee!

Im mainly looking for fiction at this point, but I hadnt heard that Edison had markers for ASD spectrum, although Im not surprised.

Thanks for the help!

[gajenx.livejournal.com]

Not Edison but Albert Einstein is who I mentioned was shown to have ASD, I think Asbergers (sp?).

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

Clearly, I shouldnt try to type and read other comments at the same time. :) I knew it was Einstein, just mistyped! thank you!