Disability Superpower/Quotes

"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.

—A Bit of Fry and Laurie

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, Knights of the Old Republic II

"It's not disabled! It's handicapable!"

—Uncle, Jackie Chan Adventures

See, if you read the origins trilogy for our purple-eyed prick, you will find that he just doesn't -get- drow society. He feels wounded and betrayed when someone backstabs him, he talks back to women, he trusts people, and he finds killing the babies of your enemy appalling instead of pragmatic. Basically, he has Dark Elf Autism, complete with his very own Autism Rain Man Superpower of swordplay. That is literally the only thing he cares about and the only thing he is good at, but damn is he good at it. What we get from this is that he is a burden to his House, but they put up with him because he makes for great cannon fodder.

— /tg/ on The Dark Elf Trilogy [1]

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