It will never not be frustrating to me that amputees appear in fiction ALL. THE. TIME. and yet they’re almost never acknowledged as such. The Cyberpunk genre is especially guilty of this: amputees and prosthetics becoming a normalised part of life are a defining part of the genre/aesthetic and yet no one even consults with any amputees about how we get represented there. Most writers in those genres don’t even consider that giving your characters cybernetic arms and legs means they’re an amputee.
ALT