Brooke Winters
As a disabled writer I am often approached by other writers who want to know how to write disabled characters well. For many people, the idea of writing characters who are so different to them is daunting and many are worried about getting it wrong, offending people, and hurting their disabled readers. These are valid concerns and good representation is important. As writers we have responsibilities to our readers, and those readers will include disabled people. It’s tempting for many non-disabled writers to avoid writing disabled characters altogether and while no representation is arguably better than bad representation, your disabled readers deserve to see characters like them in your books. With a bit of effort, good writers can write good disability representation.