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professors when your disability doesn't care that attendance is mandatory:
627 upvotes, 20 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Chronic Illness. "professors when your disability doesn't care that attendance is mandatory:"
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Anonymous 21h

The sds at my school is pretty good. I can’t get accommodations for certain things because it’s a “you have it, but we won’t officially diagnose you because it’ll fuck up your insurance” situation, but I still communicate my physical limitations in certain courses with my professors and they’ve been very supportive. If professors aren’t respecting your accommodations, you should contact your university’s sds and if you aren’t set up with them yet, you should do that. Makes life a lot easier

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Anonymous 22h

The best part of a small college was they never got rid of Covid era zoom class requirements for sick students so I always could join any class virtually

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Anonymous 19h

My professor told me I should drop out of college. Only class I actually enjoyed btw

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Anonymous 17h

is it normal that im getting points taken off for my chem class despite my attendance accommodation? bc i had to be absent and i emailed my prof and he was like im taking 10% of points off of participation but i was absent bc i had a doctors appointment and idk if i should go to the disability office

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Anonymous 20h

i have adhd and i dont get extended time on assignments 🥲 disability btw

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Anonymous 14h

*tells me i need to work on my media article about disabilities/ accessibility the day i can’t come to her class because of my disability*

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Anonymous 22h

like regardless of the attendance policy i'm still gonna wake up in a body that doesn't work. so don't get pissy with me if i can't make a 9am

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Anonymous 10h

i skipped dai because they wouldn’t help me for my diagnosed adhd yet all my professors in my dept got the memo just from learning abt me as a person and not as a money making machine

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Anonymous 20h

Amen

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Anonymous 7h

They tell me I should/need to email if I’m going to be absent. Btw my disability sometimes makes it difficult to impossible to wake up. One time it lined up with a big exam and they wouldn’t let me retake it. Literally don’t know what else I could have done when I SLEPT THROUGH MY ALARM.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

damn i wish mine did that 😭 mine isn't very big either

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 21h

the problem is that i am set up with accommodations and i have flexible attendance forms for all my classes, but some of my professors just don't care. and it's worse because the one that's giving me the most trouble is also my academic advisor.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 19h

i know people are downvoting you but dw i know how it feels 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 19h

its because people dont recognize adhd as a disability because tiktok glorified and romanticized it for some reason

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 19h

yeah it's rough and i think if i didn't also have autism and a number of physical disabilities they probably wouldn't have given me adhd accommodations

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 18h

oh!!!

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 17h

that's the issue i'm having right now. gonna talk to accessibility tomorrow. 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8h

DEFINITELY figure out the process to switch advisors if it’s feasible at all. That saved my college career

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 7h

op u and i are having the exact same problem (heavy on the academic advisor)😭 it’s so awful and they grade everything biased bc of it and it impacts so much :(((

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5h

It’s so weird bc they freely give extended time for exams but rejected me constantly even with documentation for deadline extensions which if I had to choose one I’d choose for deadlines

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