It's a rather old post that I'd wished I'd shared on here when I originally wrote it a few months back when this was a more prevalent issue in the fanfiction being made.
The issue isn't that people write Matt as not agreeing with me and how I feel about text to speech, it's that they write Matt as feeling the way they, a sighted person who has limited experience with text to speech, feels about it. And it's glaringly obvious.
I could have just left it at "Matt would most likely be really familiar with text to speech and not bothered by it's existence" because we do see him using it with his phone and his alarm clock and even studying in college. But instead I added all of the issues with my text to speech that bother me so that these people who are not familiar with it can incorporate those instead of just saying "It sounds tinny / fake / whatever" and leaving it at that. Which, as I pointed out (at least if I remember correctly) is fairly false for the character considering how much text to speech has improved.
Matt would not compare text to speech to human speech, he would compare it to the text to speech of a decade ago.
Does this make sense?
The pet peeve isn't that people are being ableist (And I'll have to reread the original post to see why someone might think that's what I said. Other than the fact that I am talking about my lived experience as a disabled person). But really it's that able writers should give their disabled characters realistic and plausible reasoning for their feelings about whatever assistive technology the character uses. And I, and the people in the tags, where just trying to help with that.
So I find the responce to it very weird. Maybe it's because I made this thread thing as an after thought when posting the more pressing, still a problem one about the notation always-a-girl! but, hey, *shrugs* what are you going to do?
Re: Matt and Text to Speech
It's a rather old post that I'd wished I'd shared on here when I originally wrote it a few months back when this was a more prevalent issue in the fanfiction being made.
The issue isn't that people write Matt as not agreeing with me and how I feel about text to speech, it's that they write Matt as feeling the way they, a sighted person who has limited experience with text to speech, feels about it. And it's glaringly obvious.
I could have just left it at "Matt would most likely be really familiar with text to speech and not bothered by it's existence" because we do see him using it with his phone and his alarm clock and even studying in college. But instead I added all of the issues with my text to speech that bother me so that these people who are not familiar with it can incorporate those instead of just saying "It sounds tinny / fake / whatever" and leaving it at that. Which, as I pointed out (at least if I remember correctly) is fairly false for the character considering how much text to speech has improved.
Matt would not compare text to speech to human speech, he would compare it to the text to speech of a decade ago.
Does this make sense?
The pet peeve isn't that people are being ableist (And I'll have to reread the original post to see why someone might think that's what I said. Other than the fact that I am talking about my lived experience as a disabled person). But really it's that able writers should give their disabled characters realistic and plausible reasoning for their feelings about whatever assistive technology the character uses. And I, and the people in the tags, where just trying to help with that.
So I find the responce to it very weird. Maybe it's because I made this thread thing as an after thought when posting the more pressing, still a problem one about the notation always-a-girl! but, hey, *shrugs* what are you going to do?
I hope this clears some things up?