I'm so used to describing myself as able-bodied that it's really easy to forget that "people with accessibility needs" is a group that does in fact include me some of the time.
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Ah…that
The list of things I’d been dismissing with “But I can’t ask for accommodations because I’m not *really* disabled” grew satirically long before I started asking for help
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Yeah. I think it's different for me, in that 99% of days my only required accommodation is "Please do not make me stand for more than half an hour or so. Walking is fine", and I'm mostly fine asking for that. The problem is more that I forget that the 1% days exist.
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I love policies that just give people reasonable accommodation without belabouring "is this a Disability(TM)?" (Dis)ability has fractal complexity, and the world is better when people have unusual needs met. Obviously sometimes there are competing needs... but often there aren't.
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I have some weird needs (e.g., long windows of time to sleep) that are really, really important to me but that I wouldn't feel comfortable calling Disabilities(TM). Just... let me skip the early morning event and I'll be happy!
Yeah, "Please stop demanding people meet some category that literally just means needs X but like in a deserving way before giving them access to X" is one of my pet causes.
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I sometimes wonder if this is a weird consequence of the super authoritarian schools we have in (at minimum) the US/UK/Canada? We all grow up in environments where you need a washroom pass certifying that you need to... use the washroom? I could see that giving people brainworms.
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