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It's estimated that around 80% of disabilities are invisible. Also, many disabilities are intermittent or contextual.
It's always good to keep this in mind when you interact with people you don't know, regardless of what they seem to be able or unable to do.
Could you go into detail what you mean with the last sentence? Example: Should I assume someone else can not walk somewhere when they ask me for directions after walking to me? Surely that is not what you mean, but all the examples I can come up with in this moment are about as absurd as that. I can not see how always assuming others might have some (relevant to the situation) disability would help me interact with them instead of doing the exact opposite.
I think the trick is to make an effort to cover as many possibilities as can be dealt with by a reasonable effort (definition of "reasonable" varies significantly by context) when setting up something which you expect the general public to interact with. Not so much assuming that any given person has some disability you can't see, but that any large group of people will have at least a few.
Interactions with a specific person are another matter entirely, as you point out. There, I think the best you can do is roll with it if someone tells you that they're unable to do something without subjecting them to interrogation or scepticism
Ooooooh now I get what you mean!