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.)
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Replying to @nils_gilman @vgr and
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)…
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Replying to @nils_gilman @vgr and
and (b) that it smokes out the assholes who are attempting to use the legitimate challenges of the neurodiverse as cover for their assholery
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Replying to @nils_gilman @vgr and
Sure, but the whole point of it was that this applies _not only_ to people who have particular diagnoses in the DSM, especially those who /did/ in the past, or those who could easily eliminate the disorders with a treatment...
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Replying to @androgynandre @vgr and
Honestly, the whole premise of this discussion looks to me like an attempt by disabled-masquerading neurotypical trolls to get POC to compete with disabled folks in some sort of victimization gladiatorial. It’s gross and should be called out as bad faith.
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