Line #27 PlayingWith/HidingTheHandicap


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character conceals a disability.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob is blind, but nobody knows.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Nobody knows that Bob has a spinal injury which paralyzes him from the neck down.
5	** Bob goes to absurd lengths to hide his trick knee.
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** Bob has a trick knee, but nobody knows.
8	** Bob is blind and only [[SecretKeeper a few confidants]] know.
9	* '''Justified''':
10	** The organization Bob works for (or where he's applying to work) won't allow disabled people, whether for a good or bad reason, so he acts as though he's not.
11	** Bob wants to avoid being discriminated against.
12	** Bob isn't one to bring up his blindness in every discussion he engages in, due to the personal and sensitive nature of the topic.
13	* '''Inverted''':
14	** ObfuscatingDisability.
15	** Bob is blind and doesn't bother withholding his disability from others.
16	* '''Subverted''': Bob's boss Charlie gets papers saying Bob is legally blind -- but then when he tests his vision with an eye chart, he passes.
17	* '''Double Subverted''': ...But it turns out Bob had Alice help him with the vision test. He really is blind.
18	* '''Parodied''': Bob says [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "I have all my original body parts and they are all in good working order"]] apropos of nothing to everybody who even greets him. Nobody questions this assertion.
19	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob is open about being blind, but keeps the fact that he has a trick knee hidden.
20	* '''Averted''': No one is disabled or hiding anything.
21	* '''Enforced''': The producers want AnAesop about accepting disabled people for who they are, and they decide that would be best served by introducing a character who feels compelled to hide their disability to avoid discrimination.
22	* '''Implied''': Bob is not shown actively working to hide his blindness, but he acts in such a manner that a casual observer wouldn't notice it, and no one around him appears to know about it.
23	* '''Lampshaded''': "For somebody who can see, Bob has many mannerisms associated with someone who can't."
24	* '''Invoked''': Bob [[YouAreWhatYouHate thinks less of himself for being blind]] and thinks others will, too.
25	* '''Exploited''': Dan, the ProfessionalSlacker in the office, {{blackmail}}s Bob and [[{{Sadist}} enjoys watching him squirm]].
26	* '''Defied''': Charlie runs extensive tests and gets medical papers from all his employees so that nobody could conceal a disability from him.
27	%%* '''Discussed''': ???
28	%%* '''Conversed''': ???
29	* '''Deconstructed''':
30	** Bob finds it increasingly difficult to avoid situations where his blindness would be revealed, casting suspicion on himself.
31	** Bob attempts to do something that would be outright impossible for a blind person to do safely, and causes a serious accident.
32	* '''Played for Drama''': Bob feels he has to hide his handicap from everyone, and the inability to let his guard down around anyone for fear of revealing his secret leaves him desperately lonely.
33	* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob makes a feeble attempt at hiding his blindness, but constantly bumps into things. Despite that, no one around him suspects anything.
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