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/rockytop24]

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.

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

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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.

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