You must log in or register to comment.
What a load of trash article. Mental health is real. GI issues are real. People are living with disability in this world. Maybe they excel at Stanford because the accomodations they secure make juggling the insanely hard demands of society just a bit more manageable. Maybe if everyone could access proper healthcare we would find out that 38% of the general population is disabled. Reject the boomer austerity mindset; return to compassion.
At a time when more people are being diagnosed with neurodivergent disabilities, how do they quantify this “fraud”?
Okay, devils advocate, I have been medically diagnosed with ADHD and generalized anxiety, when I was in high school, EVERYONE was pretending to be mentally ill, it was the trendy thing for some reason. This still seems to be the case as I’ve gone back to school 13 years later
Take a fucking look around. People aren’t faking it.
You’d be a fool to say that no one does though.
Man I’ve been inpatient about 4 times now and even I know some people fake it
Faking disabilities is hardly unique to Stanford; it’s rampant in California. There are sometimes significant benefits afforded disabled people, and very little detection and enforcement of disability fraud.
especially around service dogs,.
- But most students, in my experience, claim less severe ailments, such as ADHD or anxiety. And some “disabilities” are just downright silly. Students claim “night terrors”; others say they “get easily distracted” or they “can’t live with others”. I know a guy who was granted a single room because he needs to wear contacts at night. I’ve heard of a girl who got a single because she was gluten intolerant…
- At Stanford, almost no one talks about the system with shame. Rather, we openly discuss, strategise and even joke about it. At a university of savvy optimisers, the feeling is that if you aren’t getting accommodations, you haven’t tried hard enough.
I do not consider this fair, or adequate, regardless, of course. If you are healthy, you must be proud of it. It’s pure disgrace, regardless.
Yes, these people may exploit the system, and probably are proud of it, but this all subconsciously affects self-confidence deeply, morally/psychologically, and it sure comes out soon or late from the mind and heart, from soul, especially if they started at age of tuitions, I believe.
And here, for around 40 years living, working in military and education, I haven’t met anyone yet who would actually recover their inner stance enough to not become a fearful and self-disclosed individual, since the ethics border gets shift and blur gradually and permanently. These never find peace throughout their life, and trust no one, including themselves, which is indescribably sorrowful…
