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Synchronicity
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(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
13th Aug, 2021 10:35:21 AM
Toph's blindness mishaps are Blind Mistake in particular.
A character's disabilities are used for a gag (i.e. Professor Calculus mishearing things in Tintin, Toph not reacting to what the rest of the cast sees in ATLA, Woozie running into things in GTA San Andreas, etc.).
The Unfortunate Implications are usually lessened by having the disabled person find the jokes funny when not making the jokes themselves (e.g. Toph makes blind jokes, but there are some gags like her putting up a poster wrong-side-up since she can't tell what direction it's facing).