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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorWorm" data-source="post: 1271" data-attributes="member: 187">It’s nearly impossible to get accommodations for disabilities, especially ND ones. It took me till my sophomore year of high school to get a waiver for writing on tests, my handwriting is illegible and it’s extremely difficult for me. I was just expected to tolerate sensory issues, waste all of my spoons trying to coordinate my body enough to do PE, immediately and innately understand confusing verbal instructions (I don’t process quickly). My issues are apparent to all of my teachers but I couldn’t get the most basic assistance until I had multiple chronic illnesses and a formal dx and I was lucky to get that.This shouldn’t be the way education works. No one should have to wait until their health has been wrecked or they burn out to be offered support. It should not be acceptable to have disability services coordinators shrug their shoulders and say ‘Oh, we don’t ever see people with autism so we can’t really help’. No one should have to perform disability to ‘earn’ supports. A piece of paper or lack thereof shouldn’t prevent someone from being able to access education.Does anyone have any suggestions for how to make education improve? Currently I’ve only managed to do the bureaucratic equivalent of screaming into the void.</blockquote>