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[quote=Anonymous]I have only read a handful of posts but want to chime in.

I am a college professor in the humanities. I have taught at a big research institution and at an SLAC. I rarely have any issue with kids with special needs. Maybe sometimes I am assuming a personality trait and it's really something related to a special need. That may very well have happened. But I don't recall being bothered by any student from whom I had received accommodation requests and the like. There are all sorts of interesting people with unusual interests in academia. I love talking to people with great passions, am very comfortable with all kinds of personality, and take my role as a teacher/mentor very seriously.

I'll go farther and say that the disorganized kids, the ones who are chronically late and forget deadlines and then also happen to get sick on the day of the exam, may be a bit frustrating at times (and often require extra effort and time on my part) but tend to elicit more sympathy in me than anything else.

It's the confident and super entitled kids that I find least endearing.[/quote]

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