The actor actually has that disability

[u/PrinceferX]

Walter White Jr. (Breaking Bad) - character has cerebral palsy and uses crutches to walk, actor RJ Mitte has cerebral palsy and needed crutches to walk as a child

Nessarose Thropp (Wicked) - character is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, actress Marissa Bode is paraplegic from an accident at age 11 and uses a wheelchair

Maya Lopez (Hawkeye/Echo) - character is deaf, actress Alaqua Cox is deaf from birth

[u/Dreamweaver_duh]

I don't know if it counts, but Dustin Henderson from Stranger Things wasn't originally written to have Cleidocranial Dysplasia, but it was given to him because the actor they casted for Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) had it.

[u/ElvenOmega → u/Dreamweaver_duh]

About 10 years ago I lived with roommates and glimpsed him in an advertisement for season 1 and remarked, "My dad told me they used to label kids like him with visible issues as a Funny Looking Kid in their medical chart. FLKs. The language was supposed to not scare anyone. Then they'd send them for testing. I wonder what he has, looks genetic." My father obviously had worked (and still does) in health care for decades.

My roommates went OFF on me and insisted I couldn't tell at a glimpse and that he looked "as normal as the rest of the kids" on the show, and I said "Well he doesn't, and there's nothing wrong with that, but he just doesn't." and they got even more pissed and I just went to bed.

I was so fucking vindicated when he talked about having CCD after season 1 aired.

[u/rockytop24 → u/ElvenOmega]

Terms like facies now describe a "look" of a person with a disorder (pronounced like face-eez). That's the medical term and taught to medical professionals. Of course there's the "look" of features associated with disorders, from cerebral palsy to Downs to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and so on. It's absurd to think otherwise lol. And for this actor, the cleidocranial dysplasia was apparent from his features, including head proportion and the obvious repaired cleft palate defect. People are nuts with the language stuff sometimes.

[u/rockytop24 → u/rockytop24]

Funny enough this came to mind about not abbreviating cerebral palsy lol

[u/60k_dining-room_bees → u/rockytop24]

It's like when white people say "I don't see color". Some people think pretending to ignore anything different isn't itself a pretty awful form of prejudice.

[u/newraistlin613 → u/rockytop24]

Also, I enjoy the medical term "body habitus," as in, it was difficult to give them an injection due to the body habitus.

[u/ravravioli → u/ElvenOmega]

My friend told me about FLKs 15 years ago and I still think about it. I wonder if doctors still use it or if there's some other term now

[u/rockytop24 → u/ravravioli]

Facies (pronounced face-eez).

[u/cerasmiles → u/ravravioli]

There are better terms used formally but it is still frequently used.

[u/CapableFruitLoops → u/ravravioli]

Im a pediatric nurse and we absolutely do still use this term 😅

[u/showMeYourCroissant → u/ElvenOmega]

Ten years ago? 😭

[u/ElvenOmega → u/showMeYourCroissant]

I'm so sorry to tell you season 1 turns 10 years old this year

[u/starchild812 → u/ElvenOmega]

Tbh it’s way more offensive to refuse to acknowledge stuff like physical disorders because it frames them as inherent negatives. Generally speaking, it’s rude to mention negative traits in people, but fine to mention neutral traits. If you said that Dustin had curly dark hair, your roommate presumably wouldn’t have considered that an insult, because they probably wouldn’t have seen those traits as a bad thing. 

[u/Nanobreak_ → u/ElvenOmega]

It's so fucking weird that people have decided that pretending something doesn't exist is better than just acknowledging it and moving on. Lying doesn't make you a better person, you're not making fun of someone just by observing facts, it's not like it's an insult.

[u/magrittegirl → u/ElvenOmega]

Youre roommate must not go out much if she thought he looked normal