I shied away from the term “disability” for a long time. Ableism is deeply entrenched in our society, and I internalized a lot of it. But the bigger issue, for me, was that I didn’t feel I was “disabled enough” to claim that identity and the protections and accommodations that come with it. It took me a long time to understand that it was my internalized ableism telling me I “should” be able to do without them.
