Help me make a complete list of diabled/injured writers.
>Homer, Milton, Borges, Joyce—Blind
>Cervantes—Limp arm
>Camões—Lost an eye
>Sartre—Exotropia
>O'Connor—Lupus

>>24516586 (OP)
Dostoevsky - massive crippling hemorrhoids

>Gilles Deleuze—Damaged lungs
>Francisco de Quevedo—Club foot
>Juan García Ponce—Multiple sclerosis
>Salman Rushdie—Lost an eye

>>24516586 (OP)
>Jordan Peterson - mental retardation

>>24516586 (OP)

Alexander Pope — curvature of the spine, resulting in a height of about 4'6" or something
Lord Byron — club foot
James Thurber — shot in eye with bow & arrow by sibling as child, hence one eye pretty much useless; went progressively blind in other one too
Philip Larkin — stammer
William Ernest Henley — one leg
D'Annunzio — lost an eye in the air force in WWI

dozens of writers had tuberculosis

Robert Louis Stevenson had some sort of chronic respiratory condition

>>24516589
He had epilepsy

Blaise Cendrars lost an arm in WW1.

Edward Gibbon suffered from patholocially swollen balls.

>>24516586 (OP)
Hegel - Intellectual Disability

>>24516813
Is that worse than massive severe hemorrhoids?

>>24516977
He wrote so many epileptics into his novels, it's a shame he didn't write massive crippling haemorrhoids into them. Smerdyakov tricks Ivan by faking an attack of profuse rectal bleeding, only to then suffer a real attack of profuse rectal bleeding.

>>24516586 (OP)
Charlotte Bronte was also going blind by the end of writing Jane Eyre.

>>24516977
Yeah, when he had an epileptic seizure he pissed and shat himself and was incapacitated, heavy shit

>>24517021
Always wondered how he wrote The Brothers Karamazov

>>24516586 (OP)
Does alcoholism count? Depression? Impotence? Hemingway.

>>24517006
Huh? First I've heard of this. She wrote a lot of stuff after JE. How did she do that?

Charlotte Bronte's big handicap was that she was only about four feet tall or something.

Jonathan Swift -- deafness

>>24517616
Wasn't his back fucked from WWI or something ?

>>24516586 (OP)
Clayton Atreus

>>24517616
>alcoholism [...] Depression?
Those are the opposite of disabilities where it pertains to writing.