I saw a movie recently where the protagonist had a disability and showed the precautions he had to make to allow him to survive both in his everyday life and later when he was attempting to rescue someone. It also showed how he was able to use to disability as an advantage.
I’m curious now if there are books with characters who have what appears to be a disability but end up helping them survive. Whether that’s a physical problem like blindness, deafness, amputation, or mental like autism, ocd, or something like that.
by revenge_for_greedo
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Duma Key by Stephen King
– Protagonist Edgar Freemantle loses an arm and suffers a traumatic brain injury in a trerrible construction site accident. The story not only follows the process of his recovery, but also examines how his brain injury – and a literal phantom limb – open him up to sinister forces that have long long been sleeping.
Comoran Strike in the series by Robert Galbraith had a leg amputated due to an explosion. It comes up quite a bit in the books. The difficulty he has getting around, following suspects, just daily life is all in the books.
The Dentist by Tim Sullivan is the first book in his DS Cross series. This is a British police procedural whose main character, DS Cross, has autism spectrum disorder. Not an action-packed thriller but a really good mystery and the story is so interesting about how this different detective solves the crime.