Heroes With Disabilities

Have you ever noticed that those with disabilities are never on television or othe,r entertainement?  Or, when the,y are, that person is cured or killed off.  I was reading an article earlier entitled "Waving Away Disabilties and Chronic Conditions in Fiction" byCarlie St. George and it got me thinking…
       The world walks on egg shells around people with disabilities because we are not seen and therefore not heard.  No one wants to be around people with chronic illnesses because they are afraid to get too close as if we might shatter into a million pieces.  We are not fragile and we should not be treated any differently.  Also, for the most part, there are no magical cures.  I can not tap my heels three times and make it go away.  Sometimes I wish I could, but it is what it is.
        Life is not easy or fair and it was not made to be.  I know that fiction is imaginary, but can't we be more imaginative than making cures for all?  Although life is not easy or fair, that does not mean I moulin like to be pitied or cured.  I can't imagine who I'd be without my disability, without having been through what I've been through.  I want to be a hero!  I want to be a hero with a disability!  So, put me in a book…