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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 28/10/2026

From our latest FilmDis™ study.

A donut pie chart showing the number of characters played through Disabled Mimicry by Race. Purple (Black) with 66 characters, Grey (IPOC) with 71 characters, and Blue (White) with 258 characters.

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 07/07/2025

From our #FilmDis paper: FilmDis White Paper on Disability Representation on Television – 2020-2022

Text reads: "One thing that is important to stress is that you can both like things that are harmful andrecognize the harm they cause. That is what the disabled community must start doing if
they want to see change in Hollywood."

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 07/07/2025

Did you know that The Handmaid's Tale Rose Blaine is a disabled character and is played by a disabled actor? Carey Cox has EDS in real life and uses a cane in real life, just like her character does! #FilmDis #DisabilityAwareness #HandmaidsTale

Image of Carey Cox, a white woman with red hair, dressed as her character Rose Blaine with her hair in a bun.

Image of Carey Cox, a white woman with red hair, wearing a green dress. Her hair is down, and also she's holding a cane.

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 07/07/2025

Have y'all seen Deaf President Now! What did you think of it?

Poster for Deaf President Now! documentary. A young man in DC with a fist raised to the crowd. Text says: Apple TV+. Deaf President Now! The revolution that refused to be silenced.

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 06/07/2025

! We wrote something new on the website: a review about Hush (2016). It's an old one but we thought we'd go through some blasts from the pasts and write our thoughts on them. What movie should we look at next? Read here: www.filmdis.com/hush-the-mov...

Film reel background with pink filter. Search box graphic says, "Hush Movie Review." Main box has the Hush movie poster, the title, "Genre: Horror," 2 out of 5 stars, and says, "Another movie about a deaf character played by a hearing actor... filmdis.com, patreon.com/filmdis"

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 17/06/2025

We wrote something new on the website: a review about Hush (2016). It's an old one but we thought we'd go through some blasts from the pasts and write our thoughts on them. What movie should we look at next? Read here: www.filmdis.com/hush-the-mov... #FilmDis

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Film reel background with pink filter. Search box graphic says, "Hush Movie Review." Main box has the Hush movie poster, the title, "Genre: Horror," 2 out of 5 stars, and says, "Another movie about a deaf character played by a hearing actor... filmdis.com, patreon.com/filmdis"

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 14/05/2025

Ashtyn and Dom consulted on this episode which is set to air June 11 on PBS kids! This is not the first episode they consulted on. #FilmDis

A photo of the three wombats from Work it Out Wombats! A PBS Kids TV show. The wombats are in a circle with the middle one with his head upside down. There is a orange wombat, a gray wombat, and a pink wombat. The background for them is sky-blue.

Text in white on a dark blue background. Text: "Work It Out Wombats! – Season 2, Episode 3 – The Fishmans Big Date; Fishman Family Circus. Here's Wednesday, June 11. Kids & Family/Special Interest/Adventure/Animation"

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 14/05/2025

One thing we noticed is that there is a general lack of disabled children on television. The younger the child the less inclusion. Disabled children deserve to see themselves represented. #FilmDis

A circle graph with a hole in the middle. Label: "Disabled Characters by Age Group FilmDis Pandemic Years Study – 2020-2022."

Rose/reddish purple: Adult (937 characters)
Teal: Elder (255 characters)
Gold: Teenager (98 characters)
Red: Child (57 characters)
Yellow: Baby (1 character)

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 14/05/2025

For better or worse, has a movie changed her perception about disability? Which one?! #FilmDis

A background that is a starry night fading from dark blue to medium blue to pink. There is a black cinema on a tripod projecting out a ray of black and white text in the center of it. Text: name 1 movie that changed your perception about disability.

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 10/05/2025

Comparing our three studies in the results we received between them. #FilmDis

A table showing the results of FilmDis' three studies into disability representation on television. There are three labels at the top – 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2022. There are three horizontal labels from top to bottom. Characters, shows, and shows watched..

2018-2019 featured 708 disabled characters across 151 shows out of 180 shows watched.
2019-2020 featured 1198 disabled characters across 218 shows out of 250 shows watched.
2020-2022 featured 1342 disabled characters across 216 shows out of 250 shows watched.

Text beneath: – "- fewer shows featuring disability, but more disabled characters
1,342 disabled characters across 216 shows
1,348 actors portray 1,342 characters
6 local networks, 10 cable channels, and 11 streaming services."

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 10/05/2025

One thing I love about our studies is they contain so much information. Like we have a good idea of how Hollywood separates types of parts with disabled representation being predominately one-off throwaway characters on most TV series. #FilmDis

Pie chart. Text at top: "Disabled Characters by Part Type"

Red: Bit (678 – 50.3%)
Yellow: Guest Stars (137 – 10.2%)
Blue: Lead (229 – 17%
Green: Supporting (304 – 22. 6%)

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 10/05/2025

We include all characters – Lead/Main, Supporting, and Bit. Most studies only list characters with speaking parts or lead roles. We've even documented what shows have disabled extras. #FilmDis

A photo of Sandra Mae Frank as Dr. Wilder on New Amsterdam on the left and a photo of Jillian Mercado from The L Word: Generation Q. In between is black background with white text. Text: "disabled actors account for just 8% of disability representation on television – 2020-2022 FilmDis Study Into Disability Representation on TV"

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 08/05/2025

The most represented disabilities on television versus the lease represented disabilities. Data comes from our 2020-2022 Pandemic Years Study. #FilmDis

A pie graph showing the most represented disabilities on television from the FilmDis Pandemic Years Study – 2020-2022.

The following colors match the following values. The numbers reflect the number of characters.

Blue (289) Addiction
Yellow (250) Chronic
Green (240) Neurodivergent
Orange (119) Multiple
Purple (98) Cancer

A pie graph showing the least represented disabilities on television from the FilmDis Pandemic Years Study – 2020-2022.

The following colors match the following values. The numbers reflect the number of characters.

Blue (21) Blind/Low Vision
Yellow (17) Deaf/HOH
Green (11) Learning
Orange (11) Dwarfism
Purple (4) Intellectual

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 08/05/2025

Disabled mimicry - we've seen it time and time again, more often than we'd like to. We've seen it in movies like "Hush," "Me Before You," and more. We've seen it in TV shows, too. #FilmDis

Background of yellow, green, blue, and purple "air" like strokes. On top is a search bar and box. "What is disabled mimicry?" Disabled mimicry - noun - when nondisabled actors portray disabled roles"

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 08/05/2025

The only way to make things better when it comes to representation is to stop supporting media that features bad and harmful representation. It is as simple as that. #FilmDis

A blue background with white upper left and bottom right corners. A line with quotation marks in white is above and below the quote: "You want disabled people to stop being treated like crap? Stop defending the media that makes it okay for it to happen in the first place. STOP going to these films. STOP supporting these films, television shows, and other media. STOP supporting the actors and directors and writers and studios that refuse to listen to disabled people when we say it's not okay to be in these films, television shows, etc. Demand inclusion in the industry for disabled people. We won't see equitable treatment without it." Dom Evans. Under the quote line is the url: facebook.com/FilmDis

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 07/05/2025

One of the primary tropes that disabled people experience in media is the idea that we are better dead than disabled. It's such a common trope that it's exhausting to see it portrayed over and over again. #FilmDis

ID: A yellow background with some movie snacks in a red bowl on the bottom corner. A purple frayed edge movie ticket offers the phrase, "Better Dead Than Disabled" with a pair of cut-off movie tickets beside it. Underneath in smaller white text is "Aren't you tired of the same show" followed by the date, which reads "All Day Long" and the location "www.filmdis.com."

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FilmDis @filmdis.filmdis.com · 07/05/2025

Our latest study into disability representation on television shows that the vast majority of characters that are disabled are played by people that we don't know whether the actors are disabled or not. www.filmdis.com/research-pro... #FilmDis

A graphic from the 2020 to 2022 FilmDis research study in the disability representation on television. It is a circle graph with blue purple and mint green colors. Blue stands for unknown with a value of 843 characters. Purple stands for yes with 110 characters. Mint green stands for no with 395 characters.

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