Paperwork plays a key role in a how institutions accommodate, refuse, or manage disabled people. This article develops modes for reading paperwork that build on each other, beginning with (a) recognizing the institutional pressures at work in shaping bureaucratic practices, then (b) considering how a person's relationship to disability influences how they might encounter these practices, and ultimately (c) noticing how the encounter between disabled/mad people and an institution might create something new, what the author calls archival excess. These methods for reading are in conversation with disability studies, medical humanities, and document studies, and ultimately work toward a goal adapted from the principles of Disability Justice: recognizing the wholeness of disabled subjects in institutional archives.

文书工作在机构如何容纳、拒绝或管理残疾人方面发挥着关键作用。本文开发了相互依赖的阅读文书工作的模式，首先是 (a) 认识到在塑造官僚做法方面工作中的制度压力，然后 (b) 考虑一个人与残疾的关系如何影响他们可能遇到这些做法的方式，并最终(c) 注意到残疾人/疯子与机构之间的相遇如何创造新的东西，作者称之为档案过剩。这些阅读方法与残疾研究、医学人文和文献研究相结合，最终朝着一个改编自残疾正义原则的目标努力：承认机构档案中残疾受试者的完整性。