God, I can’t even with this show. Setting aside how AMAZING Peggy is in every freaking way, Agent Sousa here is a shining example of exactly what I want for disability representation, and this moment just fucking crystallized it for me. Between this and the angst/harassment from the able bodied agents earlier, Sousa’s attitude is so perfectly realistic and balanced in ways we so rarely see in media: he doesn’t hate his broken body & what his life is now with a disability, nor does he swan about like a happy-go-lucky piece of personified inspiration porn to show that the disabled ~can do anything!!!11~ He just… is. His life is different and more difficult because of his disability, but it’s still his life. People are bigoted and horrible to him because of it, but he can joke about it with those he considers friends. He’s only had a few little scenes so far, but in just these first two episodes the show has already managed to grasp some really important & really subtle realities of disabled life, and I am so freaking excited to watch where they take his character next.
(Source: pietro-goes-nyoom, via adelindschade)
