I signed up with Gmail and am waiting for the paper to come through now. It's such a relief to see this being written about academically - as a part-time wheelchair user it's something I grapple with a lot. I've never been one to go looking for enemies, but it worries me that if I were ever involved in a dispute, or the victim of a misunderstanding, someone could casually ruin my life by triggering a DWP investigation into my supposedly not being disabled enough.

Yet so many of us have variable, invisible, complex situations! In theory, that ought to make ambiguity around disability better understood, but I suspect that (as well as the effect of all the propaganda against us) it falls into the crevasse of "I'll make exceptions for this one person I know who is obviously REALLY disabled, but I can't stretch that into a generalised compassion/benefit-of-the-doubt for people I don't know."