![Santina Muha A woman with brown hair and a purple shirt sits in a wheelchair with a blurred tree in the background.](http://leadonada.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/RP5_6641-Santina-Muha-scaled.jpg)
My disability is typically apparent, except when over video chat. Throughout the years I've struggled with how much of my identity is colored by my disability, wishing I could choose when to disclose it at times. After conducting an experiment dealing with this, I learned there truly are people in the world who can't see me as anything but disabled once they learn I use a wheelchair, but luckily that doesn't seem to be the case for everyone.