You can spend a large chunk of your life being disabled without realising you're disabled.

Only getting my autism diagnosis at 23, and then taking several years to feel comfortable using 'disabled', I didn't realise I'd been disabled my whole life until I was in my mid-20s.

That's the thing that's so fucked up, particularly in how we talk about disability.

Like the concept that you could be disabled and not realise it is completely unfathomable to so many people, and they'll accuse you of faking it or appropriating disability.

Disability is more complicated than that, more all encompassing than that, and people who are denied access to understanding that they are, in fact, disabled are not empowered by that. Empowerment was me owning that I'm disabled.