Originally Posted by
NonBinaryNyan
(Reply to Mosha continued)It's similar (though not identical!) to frustrations when a mobile, non-disabled actor plays someone in a wheelchair--especially a character who is unable to walk. (I don't mean "they broke their leg badly so they're in a wheelchair until they heal up again," I mean characters for whom a wheelchair is a necessary tool in daily life.)
I quit watching Glee when I realized that the actor playing Artie, Kevin McHale, doesn't use a wheelchair. I was really mad about it. I felt he shouldn't have taken the role, and moreover that the show runners shouldn't have set the role up for him to take in the first place.