I feel like every day there are new reasons for building more precise vocabulary that phases out using visible & invisible as a self-evident disability binary.

It means such different things to different people that a lot gets lost in basically every related Discourse.
Is it about if strangers can tell that you're disabled? Friends? Family? Doctors? Is it about if you know?

Is it about people who don't have the knowledge to recognize disability? Or is it about people who wilfully choose not to acknowledge disability whenever possible?
And conversely (?), is it about hypervisibility, discrimination & harassment?

Is it about capacity to access non-disabled environments? To pass as non-disabled?

Is it about bias and autonomy and presumed (in)competence?
I feel like it becomes really obvious on my twitter when I'm in Interview Mode because there's always a lot of [neural upheaval].
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