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

[steplianna.livejournal.com]

Okay,

TV shows:
Life Goes On - Corky, main character who has Down Syndrome - lasted several seasons.

Picket Fences - had Marlee Matlin for multiple seasons who is deaf. Also any other work she has done.

Blind Justice - main character is a blind police detective - lasted 13 eps


TV movies:
House of Cards (1993)- with Kathleen Turner and Tommy Lee Jones. KT's daughter experiences a traumatic event and begins exhibiting severe autistic. There's a lot of excellent footage of other actually autistic people in the movie aside from main chars.

Miracle Run (2004)- with Mary Louise Parker and Aidan Quinn. Her twin boys are born autistic and it's a semi biographic dramatization of their lives up through high school.


Movies:
Daredevil with Ben Affleck who is a blind superhero.


This is all I can think of at the moment, but there's a lot of them out there...

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

Blind Justice made me want to beat my head against the table. You dont get a dog automatically if you're blind! and it's HARD to work with a dog. I spent most of it wanting to see the assistive tech he was using.

oh, figures I would forget Life Goes On. Duh.

thank you!