Venkatesh Rao

@aelkus I think something important hasn't been mentioned: a way lots of people with any sort of mental/physical disabilities cope, if it's very socially costly, is to take pride in it.

This is a big part of why I identified with Naruto when I was young, a kind of "thrown with scorn & caught with pride" thing.

So, given someone who was bludgeoned throughout their development because of their disability and decided to identify with it, take pride in it to cope... say at some point it's no longer something they can't control and is just deep part of their identity... should they be

I hate to warrant bad faith arguments, but setting that aside, the question here is whether disability provides a get out jail free card for harming others. (Granting for a moment that microaggressions etc. constitute real harms, which some like @zenpundit will probably dispute.)

The point of the doctor’s note is (a) it provides a basis for the teacher to explain: “This behavior that would be intentionally harmful coming from a neurotypical, in this case means something else; so don’t be offended or alienated but empathize with her disability” & (b)…