"Muffins" the pony

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@Looney Moon
 
Trust me, i didn’t like Derpy’s portrayal there either, but the name change was completely unnecessary - there was no harm in keeping the name.
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I have strabismus. I have gone through the humiliation and ridicule that Derpy received, and like her have been able to find a welcoming place in my community and am loved by my friends and family.
 
I see Derpy’s story in the show - from beginning to end - as heartwarming and empowering, and it healed some of my wounds.
 
Her name is a part of that for me. I chose this profile name intentionally, and on purpose, and while I recognize that you find that there is no respect for people with strabismus in the show, I disagree.
 
Changing her name was an insult to me, it hurt deeply that anyone would find her name or her portrayal as being inappropriate or somehow unwelcome.
 
Having her in the show, showing the difficulties her condition causes, and showing her rising above them and her being accepted by her friends - without losing the identity that she has because of her strabismus - is for me very important and very meaningful.
 
I have listened to your words.
 
Have you listened to mine?
 
Do you feel that people who were genuinely healed and validated by the portrayal have anything valid to say about this?
 
Or for you are we all just people to be protected by not even acknowledging our existence?
 
@Looney Moon  
You don’t live with strabismus, I can tell. “Derp” is the least of the things we are called.
 
Derpy has risen above being “just a disabled horse” - she is a valuable and important member of her community and has achieved great things. She is always supportive of her friends, and her friends support her.
 
But she is still “Derpy”, just as Rainbow Dash will always be “Crash”.
 
Erasing your past doesn’t make it go away or heal the wounds. Owning it and letting it be a part of who you are and being the person or pony that you were always meant to be does.
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Having “a derp” be her name, defining part of who she is, pegging her as just a joke to be laughed at is just mean.
Yeah, she’s comedy relief, but the implications of that being her name aren’t nice at all.
 
And yet, despite all that, she’s the darling of the fandom and everyone genuinely loves her just the way she is.
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@Looney Moon
 
“It shows respect to people with disabilities. The Last Roundup portrays a character with a disability as a punchline and a detriment to society, someone who messes everything up. That has nothing to do with her name. The fact is that she deserves better. So changing how she’s portrayed from then on and changing her name is showing respect.”
 
There are still people who don’t understand this? It’s not showing respect. It shows disrespect, because the message behind that censorship is that disabled people can’t be realistically shown on TV. They can only be shown on TV if they act “normal”, act like people without disabilities, so that the “normal” population doesn’t have to see someone who is less “normal” in their TV entertainment. But once they show off their disability, they can’t be shown because that’s not “normal”.  
That was the entire motivation behind the complaints about Derpy’s appearance in “The Last Roundup”. The complainers were uncomfortable with seeing a disabled pony on TV because they don’t like to see disabled people and want to hide them from being seen.  
That Derpy’s portrayal was supposedly a bad representation of disabled people was just the scapegoat argument of the complainers, because they knew that stating the true reason for their complaints would get THEM backlash.  
But didn’t work, their true intentions are still easy to see.  
And you think the same like these people that complained about Derpy’s appearance and still complain about her name to this day. You should just get out.
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I can understand OP’s points and I can see where she is coming from, but Derpy has been around for ages and has become a fandom darling.
 
Suddenly changing her name here from Derpy to Muffins would result in a giant shitstorm from a lot of people, and a lot of people here don’t want to deal with that.
 
Having it as an alis for Derpy might work (Like how Carrot Top implies Golden harvest and vice-versa), but idk if that would be worth the effort.
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@Osha
 
The best thing here is that Amy Keating Rogers, who wrote “The Last Roundup”, actually received feedback from disabled people who told her how well they can relate to Derpy and how happy they are that they and their struggles with their disabilities are represented by Derpy:
 
“I got emails from fans with siblings with disabilities and parents of kids with disabilities and fans who had disabilities themselves and none of them were offended.”
 
“Yes, I did get emails from folks with disabilities that were very encouraging. They did note that they related to Derpy, which I think is great. Hopefully even with the change, people can still relate to her.”
 
http://savederpy.tumblr.com/AKRResponse
 
 
Basically what Derpy Whooves said. Disabled people relate very well to Derpy. And the censorship made them feel like they couldn’t be shown with their disabilities on TV and that they would have to fake to be “normal” and hide their disabilities for that.
 
The complaints against Derpy’s appearance and the success they had send a completely toxic message.
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@Derpy Whooves  
I don’t have strabismus, I do have ADHD, but that’s neither here nor there.  
I understand what you’re saying. I still don’t think it’s erasing the past, just changing the future. But I understand what it means to you.  
(As for being called “Crash”, that’s not her actual name, just a cruel nickname given to her by bullies…)
 
@CMC Scootaloo  
I don’t think that at all. People with disabilities shouldn’t be erased, they should be treated with respect. And if you think The Last Roundup portrayed someone with a disability realistically, then you probably don’t get it at all…  
I don’t know what everyone else said. But I know what I and some other people think and feel. And that’s what I’m going off of. Different people think different things, but I think more disabled people dislike the name then like it, which is why I’m voicing my opinion.  
I want disabled people in television, especially children’s. But I want them respectfully. I think the change in name is good, and a step in the right direction.
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@Looney Moon
 
You’re the one who is not getting it, Looney Moon.
 
Derpy’s portrayal in “The Last Roundup” was and is (in the non-censored version) realistic, utterly positive and respectful.  
At no point did Rainbow Dash make fun of her or mock her for her disability. She only lost her patience and yelled at Derpy because of her short temper (and after getting almost crushed to death by a heavy wooden pillar), but she did not do anything that would make Derpy look like she is a lower-class person because of her disability.  
The way the events unfolded and the way they were presented, all of this was completely neutral. There was no specific tone in the presentation of these events, it was completely left to the audience’s interpretation. Derpy was just portrayed how she is. Just being herself.  
Which is the genius thing about it, how the audience reacted on Derpy’s appearance in “The Last Roundup” revealed their stance on disabled people.  
You can view it as a normal, realistic portrayal of a pony with a disability and simply appreciate the realism. You can view it as an opportunity to relate to someone for being imperfect and for struggling with something. Or you can point at the screen and laugh, like “hurr durr, Derpy is so dumb, she messed something up again!”.  
You can view her entire appearance and the presentation thereof in any of these ways, but in the end, all that was actually there was a disabled pony showing off the struggles she has with her disability.  
There was no comedic intent of letting the audience laugh about the misfortune of a poor, disabled pony and if you think there was such an intent, then this is only your interpretation of it and then it reveals something rather unfortunate about you and about how you view disabled people. Namely, that you view them as victims to make fun of.  
If you feel like this about Derpy’s portrayal, then you need to change how you feel about it, because then you approach it the wrong way.  
There is a difference between laughing about someone, laughing with someone and laughing as a sign of appreciation and admiration (rather than mockery). And 99% of all bronies, when they see Derpy, laugh for the latter reason.  
But you, if you would laugh when seeing Derpy, you would laugh for the first reason. Your entire view of her appearance and speaking role, that you believe she was presented as a joke and for the purpose of laughing at her expense, makes that so clear that you dig yourself a deeper and deeper hole the longer you argue for your point.  
Derpy doesn’t have to change. You need to change.
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People with disabilities shouldn’t be erased, they should be treated with respect. And if you think The Last Roundup portrayed someone with a disability realistically, then you probably don’t get it at all…
 
Ahem. Asperger’s Syndrome here, and I work at a place called Summer Street Industries, a non-profit that works specifically with people who have various physical and/or mental issues. I have the good fortune to be one of SSI’s more high-functioning clients, and I work in one of the group’s so-called “social enterprises” - small business ventures operating under the Summer Street umbrella. (“High-functioning” in this case is a relative term; Asperger’s makes ADHD look outright neurotypical by comparison.) I have yet to meet anyone at SSI, staff or client, that would agree with you.
 
The reason most of the SSI clients (myself included) are with the group is because a large part of the town (and county, for that matter) would rather pretend people like me don’t exist. I have spent most of my life dealing with exactly the sort of prejudiced assholes that demanded - and got - Derpy’s bit role censored. And I am DONE with accepting excuses for this shit.
 
You want to show respect for people with disabilities? Start by accepting the cold, unvarnished truth: there are those of us out there who will never be fully functional without support. (Yes, I do need a minder sometimes.) WITH support, we can be highly productive - SSI clients do retail, catering, manufacturing, even fundraising of our own (both for Summer Street itself and for other charities). But that support starts with accepting us for who and what we are, not burying some facet of us to accentuate the PR-friendly parts.
 
Don’t talk about respect until you can at least do that much. You’re nothing but another closet bigot hiding your prejudice behind buzzwords and sweet talk.
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I strongly disagree with everything you just said.
 
So you call CMC Scootaloo a liar for stating that Derpy has actually been called “Derpy” on screen by Rainbow Dash in “The Last Roundup” until the episode got pulled and edited? By the way, the DVD Friendship Express is still around, and it contains the unedited version of “The Last Roundup” as a proof for all disbelievers. And the unedited version can be downloaded from sources I shall not mention. (Although I halfway expect you to claim that these are fan edits even though the words “Careful, Derpy!” were clearly spoken by Ashleigh Ball herself.)
 
Also, you seem like someone who has just barged into the fandom and wants to overthrow something that has been established by both the show canon as of 2012 and tens of millions of bronies as of 2010. Believe me if I say that others with the same intent have failed hard.
 
Besides, trying hard to push your opinion (not to mention outright fake news) through and attacking anyone who doesn’t share it doesn’t get you anywhere.
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I think you are just trying to being Headcanon into this :/
 
And the reason she’s called Muffins in official merch is because of the fandom joke/meme about her favourite food being muffins.
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