 We suggest that the difficulty in appreciating that people with disabilities may have lives as good as those of people without disabilities, objectively as well as subjectively, may arise in part from a failure of imagination by nondisabled people. A body of empirical research indicates that people without disabilities rate the subjective well-being of people with disabilities far lower than they rate it themselves. (Albrecht and Devlieger 1999; Gill 2000; Goering 2008). If all persons enjoy a defeasible presumption of epistemic authority with respect to the quality of their experiences, this divergence suggests that the widely shared assumption that disabilities reduce quality of life should be regarded as controversial, not self-evident. Although we have no empirical research to support us, we suspect the same is true for the divergent assessments of the prospects for objective well-being of people with disabilities. Non-disabled people may have greater difficulty imagining how people with disabilities can enjoy or develop the capabilities for the various constituents of objective well-being, particularly those concerning health and personal relationships.