My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective’

Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det... by sago on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:01PM (#19106954)

I know criticism is rarely nuanced online, and it can unhelpfully trigger people's fight response. So I hope this doesn't come across as vicious, but:

> people do get disable kids all the time

struck me (a profoundly disabled person) as very dehumanizing.

I regularly trade quality for quantity of life. Socialising in ways that allow ways of relating I otherwise cannot access is not 'alternative medicine', it is living.

I respectfully suggest a bit more humility. Listen to disabled gamers before you firm up your opinion.

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Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det... by stan_rogers on Thursday February 07, 2019 @03:26PM (#19108234)

When the point being discussed is parental strategies and choices, referring to the parent rather than the child isn't dehumanizing.

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Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det... by thanatropism on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:18PM (#19110881)

But as you see from responses and down votes even raising questions is frowned upon now.

(Racists and other bad-faith actors may have ruined the "can't even raise the question" routine. It's unfortunate -- we're quickly losing the ability to think critically; and you know what the great men have said about the unexamined life.)

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Re:My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the det... by dizzi90 on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:12AM (#19112602)

There is lots of room for cognitive dissonance here. The article hardly claims that gaming is a universally GoodThing(tm). Rather that it isn't universally a bad one. In my reading, nuance seems to be the very point.

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