Trauma and Disabilities

As we are getting book 5 ready and I know book six is also around the corner, I think maybe it is time to talk about the disability aspect of the NewEarth Series. As you read the books you will discover a number of recognizable disabilities. Some of the disabilities are in the human population, others are identified among the dragons. All of them have to be survived and find a way to live with or die from. Some of the disabilities include anxiety, depression, blind, amputated limbs, broken or damaged joints, gigantism, sociopathic behavior, and post traumatic stress disorder. That list covers the first six books 📚 with more and different disabilities brought forward later.

It wasn’t by design that I included various disabilities, exactly. It is more that my awareness includes them as part of our population and our response to the disabled defines our ‘humanness.’ Dragons have no pretense and freely admit that those who are different work very hard to hide or mask their differences because different is not acceptable among dragons unless it is within the acceptable framework. Ask anyone with a disability and they have run into this attitude in the human population. People who are different will twist themselves into knots to be like everyone else until it proves impossible and then they embrace their unique qualities and simply work to achieve individual success.