Using a combination of auto‐ethnographic and narrative analysis, this paper sheds light on stories by wheelchair basketball players about their disabilities. Narrative is a means through which people recall experiences and place them into a meaningful series of events. In contrast to critiques of disabled athletes’ narratives emphasizing ‘overcoming’ disability and ‘passing’ as able‐bodied, I argue that wheelchair basketball players construct narratives of competence, which contrast with common stereotypes of disability. In doing so, they construct a shared sense of identity. I suggest that ‘narratives of competence’ are a more productive theoretical framework for understanding the stories of disabled athletes than ‘overcoming narratives’ because the storytellers are not attempting to pass as able‐bodied. Rather, they are presenting themselves as capable people, who are not trapped in liminal space due to their disabilities. In addition to arguing against previous accounts that describe disabled athletes as passing, this article contributes to the growing emphasis in anthropology to de‐medicalize disability.

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有限空间，钛合金牙套：​​轮椅篮球运动员的叙事能力

结合自动人种志和叙事分析，本文阐明了轮椅篮球运动员有关其残疾的故事。叙事是人们回忆经历并将其置于一系列有意义的事件中的一种方式。与对残障运动员的叙述批评强调“克服”残疾和“超越”为健全者的批评相反，我认为轮椅篮球运动员构造了对能力的叙述，这与常见的残疾刻板印象形成对比。通过这样做，他们可以构建一种共同的认同感。我建议，“能力叙事”比“克服叙事”是一种更有效的理论框架，用于理解残疾运动员的故事，因为讲故事的人不会试图通过健全的人。而是 他们将自己展示为有能力的人，他们没有因残疾而被困在门槛空间中。除了反对先前将残疾运动员描述为过时的说法外，本文还有助于人类学对非医学化的日益重视。