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* '''Justified''': Bob needed to smuggle something important.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Bob needed to smuggle something important.important.
** [[SecretTestOfCharacter Bob is testing the museum's staff on how they treat handicapped people without their awareness contaminating the test]].
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* '''Reconstructed''': Even after his recovery, he feels he can back up his claims of needing a wheelchair in case this happens to him again.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Even after Bob is able to exercise discreetly to retain his recovery, he feels he can back up his claims of needing a wheelchair in case this happens ability to him again.walk.
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** Bob claims to have multiple disablities. He does genuinely have at least one of the disabilities he claims, but certainly not all of them.

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** Bob claims to have multiple disablities.disabilities. He does genuinely have at least one of the disabilities he claims, but certainly not all of them.
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** Bob claims to have multiply disablities. He does genuinely have at least one of the disabilities he claims, but certainly not all of them.

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** Bob claims to have multiply multiple disablities. He does genuinely have at least one of the disabilities he claims, but certainly not all of them.
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** Bob has convinced everyone that he has an intellectuall disability to the point where he's completely unable to walk, talk, care for himself, form relationships, hold a job or live a normal life, when in reality he can do all those things with ease.

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** Bob has convinced everyone that he has an intellectuall intellectual disability to the point where he's completely unable to walk, talk, care for himself, form relationships, hold a job or live a normal life, when in reality he can do all those things with ease.



** Bob claims to have an intellectuall disability. He's a Mensa-level genius.

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** Bob claims to have an intellectuall intellectual disability. He's a Mensa-level genius.
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** Bob has convinced everyone that he has an intellectually disability to the point where he's completely unable to walk, talk, care for himself, form relationships, hold a job or live a normal life, when in reality he can do all those things with ease.

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** Bob has convinced everyone that he has an intellectually intellectuall disability to the point where he's completely unable to walk, talk, care for himself, form relationships, hold a job or live a normal life, when in reality he can do all those things with ease.



** Bob claims to have an intellectually disability. He's a Mensa-level genius.

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** Bob claims to have an intellectually intellectuall disability. He's a Mensa-level genius.
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** Bob's is disability is genuine, but the severity of the disability fluctuates.

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** Bob's is disability is genuine, but the severity of the disability fluctuates.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob is legitimately disabled. However, he exploits [[DisabledMeansHelpless stereotypes relating to disabled people]] and [[CondescensingCompassion all-too-common attitudes displayed by non-disabled people]] towards disabled people to remain BeneathNotice.

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* '''Invoked''': Bob is legitimately disabled. However, he exploits [[DisabledMeansHelpless stereotypes relating to disabled people]] and [[CondescensingCompassion [[CondescendingCompassion all-too-common attitudes displayed by non-disabled people]] towards disabled people to remain BeneathNotice.
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* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???Bob is legitimately disabled. However, he exploits [[DisabledMeansHelpless stereotypes relating to disabled people]] and [[CondescensingCompassion all-too-common attitudes displayed by non-disabled people]] towards disabled people to remain BeneathNotice.
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* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???Bob thinks it would be too complicated to sit on a wheelchair for years on end (at the very least, it could get annoying), so he decides to skip it.
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** Bob's glasses are for light-oversensitivity, not vision.
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** Bob claims to have an intellectually disability. He's a Mensa-level genius.
** Bob claims to need a wheelchair. He was a star track runner who can still outrun Usain Bolt.
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** Bob's disability is stamina related, he can walk without a wheelchair, but not for very long... [[note]]perhaps just long enough to get on the toilet and let his legs rest while he does his business[[/note]]
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'''Basic Trope''': A character pretends to be disabled.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character pretends to be disabled.a disabled person.



** Bob has convinced everyone that he's intellectually disabled to the point where he's completely unable to walk, talk, care for himself, form relationships, hold a job or live a normal life, when in reality he can do all those things with ease.

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** Bob has convinced everyone that he's he has an intellectually disabled disability to the point where he's completely unable to walk, talk, care for himself, form relationships, hold a job or live a normal life, when in reality he can do all those things with ease.



** Bob is genuinely disabled, but makes his disability out to be more severe than it actually is. For example, he claims to be completely blind but is actually only partially sighted, or he can walk just fine with crutches but always uses a wheelchair in public under the pretense of needing one.
** Bob claims to be multiply disabled. He does genuinely have at least one of the disabilities he claims, but certainly not all of them.

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** Bob is genuinely disabled, has a disability, but makes his disability out to be more severe than it actually is. For example, he claims to be completely blind but is actually only partially sighted, or he can walk just fine with crutches but always uses a wheelchair in public under the pretense of needing one.
** Bob claims to be have multiply disabled.disablities. He does genuinely have at least one of the disabilities he claims, but certainly not all of them.



** Turns out Bob is disabled for real after all.
** Bob becomes genuinely disabled.

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** Turns out Bob Bob's is disabled for real after all.
disability is genuine, but the severity of the disability fluctuates.
** Bob becomes genuinely disabled.gains a genuine disability.



** Bob may physically have nothing wrong with his vision but he still has psychosomatic blindness.

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** Bob may physically have nothing wrong with Bob's disability is neurological not physical, his vision but he still has psychosomatic blindness.blindness is caused by a conversion disorder.



** For #2 and 3: Bob's disability is cured.

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** For #2 and 3: Bob's disability is cured.



* '''Averted''': Bob is not disabled and makes no secret of this.

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* '''Averted''': Bob is does not disabled have a disablity and makes no secret of this.

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* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???
Bob forgets that he was pretending and is just as surprised at being able to walk.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???Bob actually does have a disability that he claims will eventually get worse over time. It turns out he made a full recovery, but has been stuck with it for so long that even he didn't know it.



* '''Reconstructed''': Even after his recovery, he feels he can back up his claims of needing a wheelchair in case this happens to him again.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob makes everyone forget he can walk just by sitting back down in his wheelchair.



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%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
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** Bob is better at taking care of his condition than even he thinks he is.

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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Bob needed to smuggle something important.



** Bob may physically have nothing wrong with his vision but he still has psychosomatic blindness.



* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The play is set on a stage which isn't handicap accessible



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob has faked being unable to walk for so long he genuinely needs physical therapy to walk again because his legs are so atrophied.



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* '''Inverted''': Bob is disabled and attempts to hide the signs of his disability.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob is disabled and attempts to hide the signs of his disability.HidingTheHandicap
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'''Basic Trope''': A character pretends to be disabled.
* '''Straight''': Bob claims to need a wheelchair. He's seldom seen in public out of one, but when he is, he's clearly able to walk without any problems.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob has convinced everyone that he's intellectually disabled to the point where he's completely unable to walk, talk, care for himself, form relationships, hold a job or live a normal life, when in reality he can do all those things with ease.
** Bob claims to have multiple disabilities, none of which he actually has.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob is genuinely disabled, but makes his disability out to be more severe than it actually is. For example, he claims to be completely blind but is actually only partially sighted, or he can walk just fine with crutches but always uses a wheelchair in public under the pretense of needing one.
** Bob claims to be multiply disabled. He does genuinely have at least one of the disabilities he claims, but certainly not all of them.
** Bob fakes a terminal illness.
** Bob claims to need glasses, but what he doesn't want you to know is that his pair doesn't have lenses and he has normal vision.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Bob is disabled and attempts to hide the signs of his disability.
* '''Subverted''':
** Turns out Bob is disabled for real after all.
** Bob becomes genuinely disabled.
** Bob may not actually have the disability he claimed, but he genuinely does have a different disability.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Then it turns out he was just messing with people.
** For #2 and 3: Bob's disability is cured.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Bob is not disabled and makes no secret of this.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "How is Bob walking? I thought he was in a wheelchair and couldn't walk at all!"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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Hey, how are you able to click the button to go back to ObfuscatingDisability? Aren't you supposed to be disabled?
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%% * '''Implied''': ???
%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???

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