Basic Trope: Disabilities are treated as an awkward Elephant in the Room.
- Straight: Alice and Bob have a business meeting with Charles who is blind, and they avoid making any references to it:Bob: I think you can se...understand how this business deal will benefit our companies.
Alice: I believe that you can pict...imagine a bright future for our future partnership. - Exaggerated: Alice and Bob walk into the conference room only to find the lights off, since Charles does not need them on. Alice and Bob try their best to discreetly locate the light switch, without ever acknowledging that the lights are off.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob does their best to avoid the topic of Charles blindness smoothly. It's only after the meeting that they sigh in relief for not brining up such an uncomfortable topic.
- Justified: Alice and Bob don't know how to sensitively address Charles' blindness, so they ignore it entirely.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob bring up the fact that Charles is blind in every sentence.
- Subverted:Bob: I think you can se..
Charles: I am perfectly aware that what you are saying is a metaphor. - Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: Truth in Television.
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked: "Charles is blind, try not to mention it."
- Exploited: Charles notices Alice and Bob dancing around the topic of his blindness, and subtly trolls them.
- Defied: Charles notices Alice and Bob dancing around the topic of his blindness, and bluntly states he is blind.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice and Bob's skirting around Charles blindness only offends him more.
- Reconstructed: Instead of getting offended, Charles takes the opportunity to give Alice and Bob pointers on how to tactfully address disabilities in the future, ensuring they learn An Aesop.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
- Implied: ???
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