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Hiding the Handicap
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Having a disability can change the way some people view you as a person. But what if you don't want people to change their image of you? Well, you could try to hide your handicap. Hiding the Handicap is when a character with a disability or other type of affliction chooses to hide that fact. Reasons for doing this can vary: maybe the character in question believes they can't afford to be seen as "weak", maybe they're afraid of being mocked or pitied, or perhaps they'd no longer be allowed to do something if certain people found out. Can overlap with Secretly Dying, if the character has a debilitating mortal injury. Secret Stab Wound and Feigning Healthiness are short-term versions. Contrast Obfuscating Disability and I Am Not Left-Handed. A subtrope to Clothing-Concealed Injury, where clothing is used to hide the handicap. |
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In the pilot episode of The Powers of Matthew Star, Matthew — named David here — is cared for by an older man who, we learn towards the end, has a robotic hand with only two fingers which he hides in a glove at all times. Had this version of the show continued we'd have learned about why he had this robot hand, but in the show, as broadcast Matthew has a different guardian who doesn't have a robo-hand. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul:Re, Kishou Arima turns out to be completely blind in one eye and beginning to lose sight in the other. His reputation requires that he never show any weakness, forcing him to compensate for his blindness and hide the fact he's also Secretly Dying. | |
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In Rose Under Fire, the "Rabbits", who have been handicapped by Nazi experimentation, are all supposed to be executed. They have to hide their disabilities to avoid the gas chamber. | |
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In The City Without Memory, when Old Mole lost one of his eyes, and the other one began to go blind, Mole claimed it was simply too dark in his castle and ordered lots of candles to be lit. | |
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In Let Us Be Your Poison, Pyrrha is on the autism spectrum. She hides it because she doesn't like others looking down on her. | |
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In Season 6 of Arrow, Diggle gets nerve damage in his right hand and is no longer able to shoot straight. He keeps it hidden from everyone, although Dinah figures it out. He resorts to buying what he assumes is a steroid that hasn't been approved by the FDA from a street dealer, although it turns out to be a designer drug. The drug helps the tremors at first but later turns out to have done permanent nerve damage, leaving him worse off. Eventually, he's forced to admit the problem to everyone. Eventually, Felicity and Curtis come up with a subcutaneous chip that gives him full use of the hand. | |
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Mac Taylor on CSI: NY. He suffered from speech aphasia in the final season, after being shot and badly wounded in the previous season finale. Being naturally stubborn, used to not opening up to anyone, and worried about his job, Mac refused to tell anyone what was going on, including his girlfriend. She had to threaten to leave to get him to admit his problem. Jo also tried to get it out of him, but despite their friendship, he just snapped at her and got mad. | |
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House: In "The Right Stuff", a patient who was in training to become an astronaut pleaded with the doctors to conceal her diagnosis so her health history wouldn't get her disqualified for space flight. | |
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The Silver Case has Sumio Kodai, a police detective who has lost his hearing and learned lip-reading to hide it. Presumably, his obscuring this from his superiors gets him arrested. | |
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In the I, Richard Plantagenet Series, a young Richard, Duke of Gloucester discovers he has a crooked spine. His guardian, Warwick, summons trusted tailors to sew Richard's clothing to hide the disability. | |
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Itachi from Naruto hid the fact he was going blind and was Secretly Dying until his death. Kakashi suspected the former, but no one besides Tobi knew about the latter. | |
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In Captain Planet and the Planeteers, recurring Mad Scientist Dr. Blight uses her hair to hide the fact that the left half of her face is horribly scarred, which also destroyed her left eye. | |
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Yashiro from Twittering Birds Never Fly manages to keep the fact that he is blind in one eye from his underlings for four years. | |
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Used as a murder method in Father Brown: The victim was convinced that willpower could overcome anything including physical ailments, and smashed her sister's glasses to prove it applied to anyone, not just her. She was nearly blind, her ego fed by a guru leading a sun-worshipping cult who accelerated her eyesight's degeneration with a ritual where they looked into the sun. He arranged for her to fall into an open elevator shaft after signing a will leaving everything to him, but unbeknownst to him the sister had refrained from filling the victim's pen, so the will is actually left unfinished and unsigned. | |
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In the original Total Recall, Benny hid his mutated arm inside a glove. | |
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In the fourth season of Total Drama, a character named Mike is introduced. He has Multiple Personality Disorder, but, out of fear of being ridiculed, chooses not to tell anyone about it. His personalities still come out, but he lies and says he's just an overly dedicated method actor. His disorder becomes harder to manage, but he eventually confesses it to his crush Zoey, who accepts him. | |
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On Pelswick, the title character gets set up with a girl who a.) doesn't know that he's in a wheelchair and b.) loves dancing, prompting him to use a machine to fake leg movement. Naturally, it malfunctions. | |
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During a taping of a 1988 episode of The Price Is Right, model Janice Pennington was hit by a camera and knocked into the crowd with enough force that there was some doubt as to whether Pennington would survive (taping would only resume once it was evident she would indeed live). Upon her return, Pennington's shoulder was left noticeably shorter (along with a noticeable scar), resulting in her no longer modeling swimsuits and the few times she wore a sleeveless dress after the accident, she would often have her hair styled in a way to hide the injury. | |
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An episode of Sweet Valley High involves a high school student who hides the fact that he's analphabetic. | |
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In the first two books of the Codex Alera series, Tavi is generally open about his handicap of having no furies, because he's grown up with everyone knowing about it. This changes when he goes undercover as a legionnaire and has to hide his identity from a noble class who have all heard about the First Lord's "pet freak". His methods of hiding it range from cleverly making fire with magnification to breaking his own leg so others won't notice he can't march at a magically-enhanced pace. | |
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The Vale: Shadow of the Crown: Shepherd gives Alex a blindfold during a tournament, doubling their prize money. Unbeknownst to her opponents, she's used to fighting this way because she's actually blind. | |
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Eda from The Owl House kept her curse hidden from King and Luz despite living with both of them (for eight years in the former's case), only coming clean to them after they nearly get killed by her transformed state. | |
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In The Prestige, Alfred Borden wears padded gloves to hide a missing finger, lost during a sabotaged magic trick. | |
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Dead Island 2: Jacob is blind in his right eye, due to a severe cataract. He gets around fine, but it's important to conceal any perceived weaknesses in the apocalypse, especially from other survivors who could underestimate or take advantage of you. Pre-apocalypse, he worked as a stuntman, and if people knew he had monocular vision he would be put out of work. | |
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Woozie from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is blind, but won't reveal this to CJ until CJ has done several missions on his behalf and earned his respect. CJ, however, had already been informed of Woozie's disability by one of his subordinates. | |
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Joker in the Mass Effect series has Vrolik syndrome, which makes his bones exceptionally brittle and makes it difficult for him to walk without assistance. Joker doesn’t mention this to most people because he doesn't want anyone to think he's had any special favors to earn his current position, and Shepard only finds out about it when he accidentally lets it slip during conversation. | |
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Matt Murdock of Daredevil fame is openly blind. But as Daredevil, he keeps his blindness hidden from most people. | |
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In Grudge Match, Henry Sharp hides the fact that he's blind in one eye so he can be cleared to box. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), two orphaned Ishvalan brothers thought their mother had abandoned them when she ran away during a bombing. In reality, she was going blind and didn't tell her kids. She had gone into their room looking for them, and was killed when a bomb hit. | |
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This is a core trope of the American series Boss. Thomas Kane is diagnosed with dementia but refuses to let go of his power and so hides his disease from everyone. | |
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Likewise, Gary Burghoff has a congenital deformity of three fingers on his left hand, so in M*A*S*H his character "Radar" O’Reilly would often hold a clipboard in his left hand or otherwise hide his hand on camera. | |
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An episode of NCIS involves a marine who was deafened when a faulty weapon malfunctioned and spent months hiding her deafness. A few shots from her POV come with almost no sound. | |
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By the end of the Knights of the Borrowed Dark series, Grey wears Conspicuous Gloves to hide the Malevolent Mutilation forced on him during the Clockwork Three's enthrallment that's left him with one hand deformed and partially turned to clockwork. All Knights wear the gloves in public to hide the fact that their power turns them slowly to iron, but Grey wears them all the time. | |
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Great Sebastian (a trapeze artist) gets severely injured. Later he comes back to the circus claiming he's fully recovered and has a job at another venue, but then the manager pulls Sebastian's coat off his arm (he had had it "casually" draped over his arm as if he's just carrying it around) to reveal that his arm is disfigured due to the bone improperly healing. Sebastian ends up a lowly roustabout at the same circus he had formerly starred at. | |
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has an example of this that goes hand-in-hand with a case of Obfuscating Disability: Famous singer Lamiroir is blind, while her musical companion (a 14-year old boy named Machi Tobaye) is not. Their management decided that the story of a blind, young musician would be much more marketable, so they made Lamiroir hide her blindness while having Machi pretend to be blind. | |
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In My Hero Academia, All Might hides his true form from the public after All For One severely injures him so they won’t lose hope in him. No one besides Deku and a few colleagues at UA knows until his second battle with All For One(which forces him into retirement) that he’s actually a skeletal, emaciated wreck with several missing organs who constantly coughs up blood. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Ser Jaime Lannister pretends he is still a Master Swordsman after his right hand is cut off, while in reality, he cannot even wield a sword properly at first. Most people are simply too afraid of his reputation to challenge him, although a few people figure out he is bluffing. He attempts to learn how to fight with just his left hand and a prosthetic, but his progress is extremely slow. | |
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Mecha Maid from Spinnerette has ALS and can barely move without the neural amplifiers built into her armor, but doesn't want anyone else to know. She gets more comfortable sharing the info as her friendship with Spinny progresses, though. | |
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In CLANNAD, the protagonist, Tomoya Okazaki, got into a fight with his father and ended up injuring his right arm, preventing him from lifting it above shoulder level. He generally hides it and makes excuses to avoid getting pity from other characters. | |
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Shine, the protagonist of NEXT!!! Sound of the Future, is an android created to be an Idol Singer who has a bug that makes her unable to sing. She hides it from her neighbors Roll and Gumiya, both due to the shame of feeling like a failure and because fixing it will require her to break the law. She usually gives vague answers when asked why she isn't an idol, and is sure to delete the call history when she uses Gumiya's phone to contact a Back-Alley Doctor. | |
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In Angels in America, anti-communist and anti-homosexual lawyer Roy Cohn insists that he's got cancer rather than admitting he's dying of AIDS. | |
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Ethan Hawke's character in Gattaca takes on the identity of Designer Baby Jude Law's character as those who aren't are seen as second-class citizens because they can only have the capabilities of an unmodified human - of course, he isn't in peak condition himself, being a janitor for years with bad eyesight and asthma. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All: Richard Wellington from "The Lost Turnabout" neglects to mention that he is nearsighted until an error in his testimony prompts Phoenix to confront him about it. This is for good reason, as the fact that he has to wear glasses, and his glasses just broke, is key to proving he is the killer. "Farewell, My Turnabout" features a witness whose icy demeanor and fiercely independent nature hide the fact that she has dependent personality disorder. |
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Played with in Ensign Sue Must Die, wherein the titular Ensign Sue claims to have done this her whole life with the dreaded "pedal transient paresthesia". (Given that it's a fancy term for her foot being asleep, it probably didn't take much effort.) | |
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In Iris Zero, main character Toru Mizushima is the titular Iris Zero - those who are born without an Iris while everybody else does. He took pains to conceal this fact, by pretending that his "Iris" is to tell what other people's Iris ability are (he's awesome that way) and generally avoiding much attention. | |
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In an episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman a famous landscape photographer comes to town to take photos and hides the fact that he's going blind. | |
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Card mechanic Richard Turner spent decades downplaying his visual impairment, which eventually progressed to complete blindness, and honed his abilities to the point that most people would have no idea he couldn't see what was in front of him until he told them. He only began using things like computer aids and a guide dog in his sixties when he came to the realization that stubbornly refusing to accept his limitations was putting undue strain on his family. | |
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During the last years of his life, Freddie Mercury had been diagnosed with AIDS, so he and his bandmates from Queen strived to keep it secret, even as he was visibly thinning. He only publicly revealed the truth the day before he died in 1991. | |
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Played with in Genome: When the protagonist negotiates a contract with a possible navigator, he assumes that the latter is a Spec (genetically engineered for his task). Half-way through the conversation, the navigator mentions off-handedly that he is gay, to which the protagonist hastily replies that he is not prejudiced. The navigator then reveals that he is also a Natural (not genetically engineered in any way)—leaving the protagonist in an awkward position of not being able to break off the negotiations without being accused of Fantastic Racism and hypocrisy. | |
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Redbeard Rum had no legs, and nobody, let alone Edmund Blackadder, knew it, until he agreed to take Rum on to sail him to the Cape of Good Hope. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Oxygen", the Doctor is rendered blind after a spacewalk. He seems to get fixed with medical equipment onboard the TARDIS — but it's revealed in the very last line of the episode that it didn't work, and he's been hiding it since then. In the next episode, "Extremis", he's concealing it by a) using the sonic sunglasses, which give him an outline of his surroundings and can tell him if there are people in his line of sight, and b) Nardole explaining what's going on in front of him and covering it up by making it seem he's caught a bad case of Captain Obvious. In "The Pyramid at the End of the World", Bill finally learns the truth. "The Tsuranga Conundrum": General Cicero is apparently on the ambulance ship because she has "Cotten's fever". She actually has a more dangerous condition called pilot's heart, and she's hiding it because she doesn't want her brother to worry and because she doesn't think it the sort of condition that a war hero should suffer from. |
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In Boardwalk Empire, The Commodore suffers a stroke that leaves him severely paralyzed. His wife and son initially attempt to keep it hidden from the outside world, including some close associates; but it gets to a point where trying to hide it becomes futile. | |
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In Just the Way You Are, a lady (Kristy McNichol) puts her leg in a cast at a ski resort to disguise it's permanently lame. | |
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In the original CSI, Grissom hid his hearing problem for a while, until he opened up to Catherine and got surgery. It was also a plot point in one episode, where his former mentor, working for the other side, told the defense attorney to question Grissom very softly, knowing that Grissom's mother was deaf and that her condition was hereditary. After a few times asking the lawyer to repeat herself, he managed to get enough by reading her lips to answer properly and slam-dunk the case. In another original-series episode, a police officer who's accused of shooting an off-duty fellow officer turns out to have been concealing his own night blindness, which had led him to mistake the victim for the perp he was chasing. |
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A subplot in one of the prequel series of Legend of the Galactic Heroes involves a student at a prestigious Empirial academy who hides the fact that he's colorblind. | |
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A variation in Iolanta: Iolanta is genuinely unaware she has been blind since birth, and Vaudemont doesn't realize anything until he asks her for a red rose and she wants to know what "red" means. That's because Iolanta's father has ordered the servants to keep the girl from finding out anything eyesight-related: it's uncertain whether she can be cured, so he thinks it would be better for her not to know about her disability as he is afraid she would sink into depression otherwise. | |
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Kagura, in Girls Kingdom always hides her left eye with her hair, because when she was younger a golf ball hit it at high speed, wrecking her vision in said eye and probably making it look rather ugly, meaning she presumably hides it to avoid detracting from her otherwise ethereal beauty. | |
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In The Longest Day, Brigadier General Roosevelt is trying to hide his arthritis from his commander so he'll be allowed to go in with the assault force. When he meets with his CO, he stashes his cane in the hallway and even lies outright when asked if he's having flare-ups. Averted later on - when he lands on Utah Beach, he has his cane with him and has no | |
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In-between seasons 2 and 3 of Ted Lasso, Anthony Head (Rupert Mannion) lost a concerning amount of weight and gained a limp. The editing and staging try to work around this (such as by having him lean against walls and doorways), but it's visible any time he walks, making it obvious it's not a character choice. It's most noticeable in the finale; in all the shots where Rupert is confidently striding with his full body visible, it's clearly a body double, while any close-up shot of his face has him limping so severely that he almost falls out of the frame with each step. Fans even took to the show's subreddit to see if he was okay, which in turn prompted think pieces on the intrusive nature of fan concerns toward celebrities who have not publicly revealed any health problemsnote As of the show's conclusion, neither Head nor the show's cast and crew ever publicly addressed any potential health concerns. At least one Reddit user reported finding a picture where Head appeared to be concealing a cane, but it remains unverified if the picture does indeed show a cane. | |
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Nessarose from Wicked wears clothes that hide her lack of arms. | |
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Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All: Richard Wellington from "The Lost Turnabout" neglects to mention that he is nearsighted until an error in his testimony prompts Phoenix to confront him about it. This is for good reason, as the fact that he has to wear glasses, and his glasses just broke, is key to proving he is the killer. "Farewell, My Turnabout" features a witness whose icy demeanor and fiercely independent nature hide the fact that she has dependent personality disorder. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has an example of this that goes hand-in-hand with a case of Obfuscating Disability: Famous singer Lamiroir is blind, while her musical companion (a 14-year old boy named Machi Tobaye) is not. Their management decided that the story of a blind, young musician would be much more marketable, so they made Lamiroir hide her blindness while having Machi pretend to be blind. |
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Flejj Hillmover in Goblins came from a clan of dwarves who practiced eugenics and would kill or exile any disabled members. Flejj himself was deaf but was able to hide his secret for years by being a very good lip-reader. | |
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The Family Guy episode "Papa Has A Rollin' Son" involves Joe trying to hide his disability from his father. This is done by having Peter pose as Joe. | |
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Captain Tsubasa has several instances of this, starting with Misugi keeping his heart illness a secret from most everyone (except for his girlfriend/manager Yayoi and the Musashi coach) until it finally comes out in the semifinal match against Nankatsu. Tsubasa himself averts it during the middle school nationals, since everyone knows of his shoulder and ankle injuries, but played straight during the Japan vs Mexico match, as he got an abdominal wound the night before, and tried to keep it hidden until it opened up and he started bleeding in the middle of the match. | |
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André the Giant owed his massive size to acromegaly, a growth disorder that, as well as making him incredibly tall and strong, also left him heavily at the mercy of the Square-Cube Law. Though he was fairly quick in his youth, once he hit his 30s and especially his 40s, he was increasingly a physical wreck. Given that he had a career as a professional wrestler, a lot of time was spent in making sure that this wasn't apparent to audiences. His role in The Princess Bride, for instance, had a lot of behind-the-scenes trickery to make sure he never had to lift anything particularly heavy, as his back was giving out. | |
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Dr. STONE: Suika and Kinrou both have blurry eye disease - which just means they need glasses. Problem is that they're not exactly available in the Stone Age. It's not as big a deal for Suika, who's found ways to work around it, but Kinrou is one of the town's guards. As such, the only person who knows about his eyes is his brother Ginrou. | |
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Katawa Shoujo: Not everyone at the school talks openly about their disabilities. Hisao, who has an invisible disability related to his heart, avoids talking to his friends about it. However, if you, as the player, do not disclose Hisao's disability in an Act 1 scene with Lilly and Rin, you will be locked into the bad ending route. | |
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In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: The fact that one of the characters suffers from prosopagnosia yet chooses to keep that fact hidden is a plot point. Zig-zagged in regards to Snake. He's open about his blindness, but hides the fact that he has a prosthetic arm. |
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During the filming of the first season of Babylon 5, Michael O'Hare (Commander Jeffrey Sinclair) started experiencing paranoid delusions due to his mental illness. He asked J. Michael Straczynski to keep it a secret and have his character written out of the show after Season 1, much earlier than planned. Indeed, JMS wouldn't reveal the real reason for O'Hare's departure from the show until the actor's death in 2012. In fact, O'Hare himself requested that JMS tell people the truth after his death, in order to increase awareness. | |
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