Apr 082009
This week’s run of Doonesbury features a charming but clear-eyed take on disability and dating. Alex, the comic strip’s resident overachieving and slightly awkward Gen-Y’er, pays a visit to Toggle, a boy she met on Facebook. Toggle also happens to have a traumatic brain injury that he acquired while serving in Iraq. So far, the two of them seem to be hitting it off nicely.
Trudeau has addressed disability issues previously (longtime readers might recall B.D. becoming an amputee while also serving in Iraq) and has done so with wit and a light touch. And in Toggle I see a kindred spirit: a guy who speaks slowly and digs geeky women. Perhaps I should start spending more time on Facebook.
