I think it might be! I, too, tend to see my mental capabilities as a bit like my “superpower” since my body is not exactly equipped for leaping tall buildings. It’s far easier to picture myself in a less physical role, but there’s no reason it should be a weaker role.
Humans as individuals are very adaptable, and I think that’s something that writers tend to forget when they try to make their characters’ problems “relatable” when writing disabled characters. It’s ok for it to be “about” dealing with the disability, to a point, but make the actual character growth be more “this is what I do instead of/because of” rather than “the disability stops me from doing”. I think superheroes and fantasy characters give us a fantastic platform for telling these stories in a way that is accessible to a broader audience than just making “a story about disabled people” for the sake of it. Superhero stories can be outlandish, but I think that at their heart, they’re designed to show us that we each have our own strengths that can be used either for good or evil. That we have hidden “powers” sometimes, and we have a choice and a responsibility as to how we use them.
Captain Koril 