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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They take the jobs best suited to their skills. There are so many jobs that don’t require testing, that have no long-term deadlines, aren’t project based, whatever. You get the accommodations to get through school, then you get a job which doesn’t need any of those kind of accommodations.[/quote]

So just no positions like doctor or lawyer?[/quote]

UGH. Sometimes I just want to throw something when I read nonsense like this thread.

My DC's specialist MD is one of few pediatric experts in the country in managing my child's chronic medical condition. The doctor has the same chronic condition and learning differences as my kid and advocates frequently in medicine and in education. It has been life-changing having that doctor's empathy, insight and medical support.

My kid has been admitted into highly competitive schools EA (one with full ride) and is awaiting ivy/ivy-plus results. Not sure of plans yet but I have every confidence that DC's future is very bright. DC fatigues easily and lives with daily pain, but is one of the smartest and most resilient people I have ever known. DC likely will face some struggles in college, but we're doing a lot of planning up front and DC will pivot along the way as needed.

I'm tired of trying to educate ignorant people. Either do some reading or shut up and stay in your own lane, OP. [/quote]

The ignorance in this thread is mind-boggling. These people have no idea what they don't know -- and utterly lack curiosity to learn. Like autism and ADHD are imaginary and accommodations are a fun little game.

It's like they are against the idea of human beings flourishing, just on principle. Like they prefer a world in which people struggle to survive.

The individuals I am close to with late-diagnosed ADHD and autism -- people in their 50s -- mostly struggled (intermittently) throughout their lives. They underperformed, struggled financially, struggled with addictions to gambling and alcohol and pills. Beautiful, brilliant, creative people who could not understand why they couldn't do what seemed to come easily to others. A kind, lovely, brilliant man who took thirteen years to get his BA and gave up dream after dream along the way. He struggles with depression and I worry about him.

My friend who is an artist and writer and produces phenomenal work but struggles to sell. She has been diagnosed but resists the lanugage of neurodivergence: If you ask her, she's just "broken" and "incapable."

She's survived two suicide attempts.

Idk call me crazy but I would rather people who need support receive support, and that it's better for everyone to live in a world where where fewer people struggle and more people thrive.

My own daughter receives accommodations at college for a disability you won't have heard of and that you cannot see. She has a single room. That's it. Without it she could not be at college. With it, she's at a t20 and is knocking it out of the park.

God save us from the petty, small-minded, and ignorant. Try a little generosity of spirit, and pay attention to doing better and being better and if you don't understand why so many others have accommodations -- try asking, and then listening to the answers. [/quote]

40%?  Really?

And when wealthy neighborhoods have 4 or 5 times the frequency of accommodations as poor neighborhoods, you wonder about the equity.[/quote]

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