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'Game Of Thrones' Finds Fans Among Disability Rights Activists, Too

Several main characters in the HBO series happen to have disabilities. "I had never seen my own experience in life reflected so accurately, so vividly, so viscerally," says one disability activist.
Isaac Hempstead Wright plays Bran Stark in the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's <em>Game of Thrones </em>books<em>. </em>Some disability activists are concerned that Bran will be magically cured of his paralysis in the show's new season.

One of the main characters on HBO's hit series, Game of Thrones, is paralyzed. Another has lost his right hand. We've met an important character with a severe skin disorder and another with an intellectual disability.

And , the actor who comes first in the credits, is a little person. So is executive director of the National Council on Disability. She's a fan

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