History Quotes / DisabilitySuperpower

->''"When someone loses one sense, their other senses become enhanced. Like a blind man who can smell and hear really well."''

->''When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door.''

->''Everybody's sayin' that the Scatman stutters''\\
''But doesn't ever stutter when he sings''\\
''But what you don't know, I'm gonna tell you right now''\\
''That the stutter and the scat is the same thing''

-->--'''Emily''', ''Film/TheBeyond''

->The closest we get to seeing Senua exist with other people is in flashbacks to conversations with Dillion or the trauma of her father’s extensive abuse. She never has to go to the store for milk. She’s not struggling with losing her job because she had a flashback in a meeting. Paramedics and cops never break down her door because she didn’t answer phone calls from her friends and family for a week. [...] We need games that present people living with mental illness as real and valid people. But we also need those games to handle mental illness as it is, not as allegory.

->Like I said, I wanted [Oree's] blindness to be part of her identity, as unremarkable as her gender or race... but by constructing her blindness as the result of her magic, I not only made it remarkable, I emphasized its abnormality. Imagine if I'd said she was only ''female'' because the magic made her that way. Or if I'd said she was only black because one of her ancestors was something inhuman that happened to have black skin.

->''"I've felt worse."''
-->--'''[[BrokenBird Lapis Lazuli]]''' shrugging off Blue Diamond's EmotionBomb, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''

-->--[[BrokenBird Lapis Lazuli]]''' shrugging off Blue Diamond's EmotionBomb, ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''

->'''Sir:''' Lipreading? But how can you read my lips if you're blind?\\
'''Whitlow:''' Oh, it's because I'm deaf, sir, that my sense of vision is naturally enhanced. Blind people are known to have very keen hearing, so they sort of... cancel each other out.\\
'''Sir:''' You mean you can see and hear perfectly? \\
'''Whitlow:''' Yes, because I'm blind and deaf. One miraculously compensates for the other.
-->-- ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie''

->'''"Sir"''': Lipreading? But how can you read my lips if you're blind?\\
'''Whitlow''': Oh, it's because I'm deaf, sir, that my sense of vision is naturally enhanced. Blind people are known to have very keen hearing, so they sort of... cancel each other out.\\
'''"Sir"''': You mean you can see and hear perfectly? \\
'''Whitlow''': Yes, because I'm blind and deaf. One miraculously compensates for the other.
-->-- ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie''

-->--'''Kreia''', ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''

--> -- '''Uncle''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Jackie Chan Adventures}}''

'''[[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}]] Matt Murdock]]:''' It's a long story, one I'd rather not tell. More importantly it's a secret I keep not just for the sake of protecting myself, but also for the people that I love.\\

-->'''Music/ScatmanJohn''', "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bob-Ba-Dop-Bop)"

-->--'''Kreia''', ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II''

-->-- ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie''

--> -- '''Uncle''', ''{{Jackie Chan Adventures}}''

->"When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door."
-->--'''Kreia''', ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II''

-->-- ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie''