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Paralives (life-sim game) disability representation

User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman November 14th, 2024

I'm a pporter f the Work-in-progress  Canadian life-sim game.   I'm also a supporter of disability representation in life-sim games.   In Sept the Paralives' Indie team had a Pateron post (only people who were Paterons could see it for everyone else except for the title it was locked).  Today the team unlocked that post for the non-Paterons to see the disablity items.


These items are not going to be functional in Early Access in 2025.


an bedroom for someone with ASD.  So there's a computer desk that has fidget toys, and a noise cancelation headphones (I wish my parents would get me one of those) as well as a heating pad if need.  There's a weight lizard plushie on the bed as well. 

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close-up of the fidget toys:

spinner thing,  pop-it,  non-verbal communication cards,  a stress ball(?), and a necklace I think  (the necklace could instead by a tangle another fidget toy)

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a bear cave either for someone who is both Diabetic and asthmatic or two people who have a love for D&D (Paralives' version is Delicious and Dungeons) and they both have disablities.  One is asthmatic and the other person has diabetes

AS you can see there's an asthma pump (on the tower of the computer).  There's also on the couch a insulin pump and a glucose monitor.

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an auto-immune person's bedroom with wheelchair and oxygen container

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close-up of the manual wheelchair:

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a picture of a walker and a better view of the oxygen tank 

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forearm crutches and walking cane

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A room that's half for the blind or otherwise visibility impaired. (The stuff on the other side will be address in the 2nd to last photo)

a probing cane (walking cane that a blind person uses to find obstacles on the sidewalk), a Braille book, and a magnifier to read small print. 

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The 2nd to last photo Deaf and Hearing impaired stuff 

a Sign Language book,  small hearing aids, and what I know was called a TTY machine. (It was the predecessor for today's texting and only use by deaf people)

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extra photo:

This is a photo of a the bathroom one of the Para devs made in the build that are in these pictures here and in some that I didn't show because they weren't related to disabilities.  The shower is big enough for a wheelchair. Most of the items could be accessible sitting down.  There's also are two "grab bars".  One you can see in the shower and the other you can only see a bit of next to the toilet.

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so that's the disability representation from Paralives team! 


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User Profile: AffyAvo
AffyAvo November 15th, 2024

Thanks for sharing this with us! I haven't used life-sims before so it's interesting to see what's being included!

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User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman OP November 15th, 2024

@AffyAvo

you're welcome.  the pateron post with this just got unlocked today. I'm been waiting 2 months to see it since I'm not a pateron!  

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User Profile: EasyBreezyPeace
EasyBreezyPeace November 15th, 2024

Disney. Thank.you for posting this! So cool and wonderful seeing all these additions ✨️

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User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman OP November 15th, 2024

@EasyBreezyPeace

You're welcome!  The stuff's not going to be functional in Early Access but they might be functional later on. 

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User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman OP October 25th, 2025

So last month  Paralives showed some PAM items that have disability content 


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I would also show pictures of hearing aids as well  but I can't upload the in-ear hearing aids