Editing Disability (section)

===== Disability drop =====
The "disability drop" [[Trope (literature)|trope]] is when a supposedly disabled character is revealed to have been faking, embellishing, or otherwise not actually embodying their claimed disability. [[Jay Dolmage]] offers [[Kevin Spacey]]'s character, Verbal Kint, in the film ''[[Usual Suspects]]'' as an example of this, and depictions like this can reflect able-bodied society's mistrust of disabled people.<ref name=":5" /> In addition, this reveal of a character's nondisabledness often serves as the narrative climax of a story, and the use of disability as a source of conflict in the plot, narrative obstacle, or a device of characterization aligns with other disability studies scholars' theory of "Narrative [[Prosthesis]]", a term coined by David T. Mitchell and Sharon Snyder.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mitchell |first1=David T. |title=Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse |last2=Snyder |first2=Sharon L. |date=2000 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0-472-06748-0}}</ref>