For WisCon Chronicles 7: Disability-friendly SF/F/H
So I've been busy with a number of projects, including keeping my head above water as a freelancer and putting together WisCon Chronicles 7, which is, as you may have noted, disability-themed
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Boober was my favorite character from that show. I liked finding out he evolved from a remark Dave Goelz made about working on The Muppet Show: he was so busy, all he had time to worry about was death and laundry.
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Kyle Murchison Booth, protagonist of the short stories collected in Sarah Monette's The Bone Key (2007) and Unnatural Creatures (2011). He is desperately uncomfortable in his own skin and even worse around other people and this would be true even if he were insensible to the supernatural influences that permeate his world; as it is, he is keenly tuned in to them and they don't help. He is still the sort of person who deals better with malevolent hauntings than with any social function you care to name. Regardless of his relevance to this discussion, if you haven't read either collection, you should both. They're the work of hers I like best by miles.
I thought also of Fujimoto from Ponyo on the Cliff (2008), but he may only be overprotective and high-strung and sympathetic, at least if you ask me. I never wrote about him properly at the time I saw the film, but he was rather obviously the character I liked best.
And I'm really not sure he counts for purposes of this discussion, since his tendency to freak out before every ceremony seems to be less of a clinical affliction than a kind of suppressed protest against his incredibly serious job, but if you ask me about anxious characters, one of my earliest childhood examples was Sempitern Walker from Diana Wynne Jones' A Tale of Time City (1987).
I hope at least one of these is useful to you; I may think of better examples in the morning.
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Okay, I seem to have misunderstood the scope of your post; I will definitely think of better examples in the morning, because I am evidently not firing on all cylinders right now.
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