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

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

Not the entire show, but in the first and second season of The West Wing there was the character Joey Lucas, a deaf pollster that helps out the campaign, I understand the actress, Marlee Matlin, (who is actually deaf) also has a large arc in The L Word.

I'm sure I'll think up more as it churns in my brain, but that's the only thing that I can think of off the top of my head.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

ooh, yay! Thank you!

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

Oh, Oh, thought up more!

The terrible TV Show Becker has a blind main character, don't know if the actor is actually blind.

One of the main characters in Highlander, played by Jim Burnes, has prosthetic legs, (it was explained as a landmine accident in the TV show).

Oh, any X-Men movie/show with Professor X in a wheelchair, and the various other X-Men generally have some kind of disability that goes with their powers, schizophrenia, blindness, etc.

Unbreakable, Samuel L Jackson is in a wheelchair.

Comedy Option: Neo in end of the Matrix. Second Comedy Option: Various one-armed people in Arrested Development.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

Comedy Option: Neo in end of the Matrix

*snort* you are BAAAD. :)

thank you!