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Only a handful of results come up when you do an Internet search for television shows and movies that feature a character with a disability in a starring role. Movies such as The Brooke Ellison Story and Suddenly both present, in a very unusual move in today’s made-for-TV movies, fairly accurate portrayals of life with a disability that manage to be uplifting and entertaining without crossing the line into becoming sappy or portraying the main character as an object of pity.

Sad as it is to say, there are two ways that a character with a disability is most often portrayed in today’s media. One is the ‘superhero syndrome,’ in which the disabled character never had any trouble adjusting to their disability and continues to live life as if nothing had ever happened. The other portrayal is as an object of pity, a person who never adjusts to their disability and lives the rest of their life in a perpetual state of self-loathing and depression.

There is one media outlet, however, where characters with disabilities have starring roles, appearing frequently and the ‘superhero syndrome’ is not necessarily a bad thing. This outlet is the world of comic books, or graphic novels, as they are sometimes known.

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