Yes. Although I don't feel that I have the right to speak for others in my country. My situation clearly isn't typical.
If you do have the formal type of diagnosis (not 2 mental health proffessionals who confirm like me) and typical problems that the diagnoses are geared towards like academic difficulties, then yes, it might be friendly. However, my presentation of autism isn't something that gains understanding even among proffessionals. It's a type of doctor's response similar to: "Your legs hurt all the time? You have trouble walking? But you have both legs, so you'll be fine. Goodbye. Help? Physical therapy? A notice for your employer that you shouldn't walk much? But you have both legs, I can't give you that" I mean, no offense to people who lost their legs or have other very serious disabilities, it's one of the worst things that can happen. However, it's not that if you have legs, you can't have major problems with walking even if you are able to walk for limited periods of time.
The right strategy, in my opinion, would be to identify problems more closely, get diagnoses for the specific issues if needed, and accomodate those problems.
Yes, this is my problem.
Yes, exactly.
It's like, you're allowed to be absent, however, you get points for being present and you won't get the points. You need a certain number of points to pass and the threshold is set at 80% present, and I was present on around 70% of classes. When I asked about it, one of the instructors said that she doesn't need doctor's notices, because you can have *so many* abscences, the subject is designed to allow for them. Much = 15%, so two times too few. She was genuinely convinced this is much and that she is being accomodating. I mean, I get it, you need to do most of the coursework. But it would be truly accomodating if we were allowed to do some of the work at home and get points for it.
Makes sense.
