PSA for writers:

Let me first give a couple examples of the horrible "Magic Legs" trope!

Professor Xavier in the #Xmen series could walk for most of season 2 because *on Genosha his powers were suppressed... Therefore he could walk*

My goodness that's so damn ridiculous

https://twitter.com/fast_read/status/1378095747258802183

Maybe don't write a plot where you send a wheelchair user to a tropical island with no wheelchair access! How hard is that?!

So let's discuss how this ridiculous trope is why people think disabled people will be magically healed!

This weekend my mom and I had a long talk about accepting our bellies.

My mom was barely 100 pounds until her mid thirties but she never had a flat tummy.

I was bigger than my mom by 6th grade and I've had a pooch ever since. Id never told my mom before that I'd realized my obsession with hiding my tummy and being insecure about it came from her.

She lives with my nieces now and how will they believe us when we tell them their bodies are beautiful if they know we don't even think that about ourselves

PSA for writers:

Before you write that scene where a villain stands up out of their wheelchair and reveals They Could Walk The Whole Time... I'm going to quickly explain to you why that trope has serious and dangerous real world consequences Disabled people are publicly confronted by strangers that don't believe they are really disabled, because we can walk, all the time.

Violently and aggressively confronted. Threatened even.