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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are exactly right.

The other responders are in fact ignorant, and lucky that they have not had to learn the hard way that these disabilities are real (despite the fact that they are invisible).

Careful snarky posters, karma might be real...[/quote]

I don't think people mind when the disabilities are real. They do mind that there is abuse of the system.

They don't mind when a blind person has a guide dog or someone with PTSD from service in Afghanistan has emotional support dog.

They do mind when someone spends $50 for a fake emotional support certificate to take their pet ferret (or camel)  on the plane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz8bqJaKeKk

or rich parents spending thousands for a fake diagnosis so that their kid gets extra time on the SATs https://www.thedailybeast.com/faking-adhd-gets-you-into-harvard

or college students fake ADHD to get Adderall. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mouse-man/201007/new-study-claims-it-is-easy-fake-adhd

As long as these things are allowed to occur, it undermines the case of people with real needs.[/quote]

Except in this thread we have people telling those with disabled to go find their "niche" [that isn't in college].  We have lots of shaming language directed towards anyone who uses and accommodation, including calling them disgraceful.  Your starting assumption is that you should be arbiter of what constitutes a "real" disability.

You want to focus on abuse of the system yet until very recently people with very disabilities were unable to get reasonable accommodations.  Children with learning disabilities are still left unidentified and failed out of school.  Children with identified learning disabilities are still not provided with scientifically backed learning methods and then called "lazy" or a "behavioral problem" when they still don't catch up when provided with more of the same methods that don't work.  You only care about abuse of the system because it doesn't affect you at all that bright kids with a lot of potential are short changed.  Personally, I'm delighted to know a pair of brothers with ADHD and dyslexia who are doing great in the engineering program at their chosen university.  What's even more marvelous for me is out confident they are in themselves that they can talk about their challenges and how they overcome them without the shame people like you want to place on them.

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Guess what. I have a child with a legitimate IEP, and I think that inflated disability claims do NOTHING to help him. It only makes people more skeptical of disability rights in general.  [/quote]

Guess what.  Most of the posters here don't think your child's IEP is legitimate and that s/he doesn't belong in college.

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I highly doubt that.  And if my kid (who by all accounts actually has great working memory and processing speed) got extra time on the SAT and ACT and outscored their kid, I think they would be right to think that was wrong.  My goal for my child is for him to learn to understand and compensate for his weaknesses, and play to his strengths.  I do want him to get supports along the way, but not supports that give him an unfair advantage.  [/quote]

Here you go " your child ... should pick exercise science as a major instead of engineering"
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If your child has a disability that means a certain major/career path is going to be very difficult ... then yeah, seems like a bad idea.  [/quote]

Then say that.  I think everyone agrees that people should play to their strengths.  That's a little different than saying anyone with slower processing speed should pick PE instead of Engineering.  That's pretty patently false.  Engineering actually plays to the strengths of many kids with ADHD and/or dyslexia.

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