Accusing us of faking disability, using paperwork as an additional hoop that we must jump through, making us prove that we “deserve” our accommodations—all these behaviors suggest that benevolence gave us our civil rights, so spite can withdraw them at any time. It’s as if we’re given a day pass to enter the nondisabled world, but it can be revoked if we’re not grateful enough or don’t perform our disability the way we’re “supposed” to. As though some of us are more deserving of civil rights than others.
