 Against this it might be argued that whether or not a person with a disability is in an epistemically-privileged position concerning the experience of disability, this privilege need not extend to an objective assessment of the actual physical and other burdens of living with the disability (Brock 1995). Quite the contrary, because of the psychological dynamics of adaptation and adjustment, especially after a traumatic injury, a person with a disability may well be in a worse position to assess his or her life objectively. Once adjusted, the disabled person may grossly overestimate the value of living with the disability, which, while perhaps not a bad thing, in this context has the effect of distorting the individual’s health and social needs (Murray 1996; Menzel et al. 2002).