Is it normal to want to pretend to have disabilities?

"Everybody knows you never go full retard.

What do you mean?

Dustin Hoffman, 'Rain Man,' look retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Counted toothpicks, cheated cards. Autistic, sho'. Not retarded.

Tom Hanks, 'Forrest Gump.' Slow, yes. Retarded, maybe. Braces on his legs. But he charmed the pants off Nixon and won a ping-pong competition. That ain't retarded.

Peter Sellers, "Being There." Infantile, yes. Retarded, no.

You went full retard, man. Never go full retard. You don't buy that? Ask Sean Penn, 2001, "I Am Sam." Remember? Went full retard, went home empty handed..."

Oh man tropic thunder cracks me up.

I do this all of the time, but I don't do it for the sole purpose of pretending to have a disability.

I have a natural inclination for creative writing. The stories and "personas" that I am able to make up at the drop of a hat have impressed those that have seen it. I don't know why, but I like to explore my creative urges. I even experiment with telling stories from perspectives that I have seen throughout the course of my life, stories that I found interesting and that I would like to expand on and share.

I would hope that everyone that is on the internet understands that what they may be reading might not be 100% true and not to take the internet too seriously, or to at least do research before they put any *REAL* faith into what they read, but I can't help someone if they are so trusting and don't understand these common principals.

So I will vote normal. I too enjoy exploring the depths of my creativity in an anonymous fashion. I don't pity people who get easily offended by what they see on the internet. It's the internet, for fuck's sake. If humanity's oddities bother you, unplug the router, go to your room and don't leave it.

No. Can't say I've done THAT?! Can't say I'll be trying it, either. Ah well. Each to their own.

I don't think you'll get an accurate answer here either. The people on this site are usually open to anything.

I play like that all the time. I being doing it for so long I'm starting to think I really have disability, lol.....

Ahhh this is getting off-topic.

when i am with a girl that i think is ugly, i tell her that i am gay. does that count?

As long as this is done for the right reasons I don't really see it hurting any body. If there is no financial gain, of special treatment to be drawn from it, i'd say go ahead. Just be sure to respect the disabled community in which you are portraying.

Have you ever taken acting lessons?
Put your "Personas" into something useful instead of offending people.

I hardly think you'd really like it if you were in the situation unless you has a surprising amount of self-awareness, social-skills/consideration of others and a realistic sense of consciousness of other people. But at the same time, I could see it might provide some depth too. Leonardo Dicaprio did really good at portraying a kid with mental disabilities in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' fantastic movie. Johnny Depp's in it too

The Lars von Trier film, "The Idiots", is pretty much a bunch of people who do this. The set up is that these otherwise able and intelligent people are pretty much trolling society. It's an interesting film. Nowhere near his best, but interesting.

There's a French film with a similar theme (but which gets to the moral point quicker) but I can't remember what it's called. I keep thinking Le Dîner de Cons, but I know it's not that.

I'm sure some kind person on IIN will let me know. My memory is knackered recently.

But why? What do you get out of it?