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Old Jan 25, 2025, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by atisketatasket View Post
I am having a very bad start to the semester (two weeks old). The usual accommodation fails

Then the faculty government officers met with the university president. I had a captioner there in person. Back in September, when we last met, the president saw my captioner there and worried aloud she was making a recording or a permanent transcription. Annoying, but understandable if you’re not used to in person captioners (they use equipment similar to court stenographers). I got in touch and explained after the meeting, and he seemed to get it.

So…at the meeting this past week, he comes in, sees the captioner, and immediately launches into the same concerns about recording and transcription. He goes on longer than last time and refuses to answer questions because of the transcription—the one that doesn’t exist.

Honestly—anyone of us could be recording the meeting on our cell phones or something. But he picks on the visible disability accommodation and expresses no concern about phones or note taking. He uses my disability accommodation to avoid answering my colleagues’ questions—the classic, oh, if only there weren’t a disabled person here.

It was humiliating. It still stings.
That sounds so frustrating and deeply unfair. It’s not just dismissive—it’s exclusionary, and the way it played out undermined your right to equitable access.

Your point about using your accommodation as an excuse to dodge accountability hits hard. It’s a double burden: managing your own needs while also being unfairly made into a scapegoat. No wonder it still stings—it was public and undeserved.

How are you holding up now? This isn’t something you should have to face alone.
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