(09-14-2015, 06:21 AM)Lucianna Wrote: If I choose to create a character with a mental disability but was able to care for themselves and such how would you guys think it would be received by others?
This on its own eliminates a broad spectrum of mental disabilities and ranges of them, because many of them do not allow for proper / healthy self-care at certain levels or by their very nature, so it might depend on what specifically you're looking to do.
That said, rule of thumb is to do your research for proper usage, ensure that you're not just tacking this on to the character, make sure that this actually becomes a viable part of their daily struggle and not something that comes up every once in a while but is otherwise Whatever, while simultaneously making sure that it doesn't become the complete total of everything your character is and will ever be.
That said though, more useful advice would probably come depending on what specific disability or disabilities that you had in mind.
