Comments on: Special Case

By: anita

anita — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:59:16 +0000

hopefully, your doctor will find the leak, fix it and all will be well…and you will no longer be disabled, you will no longer need extra time because you will no longer be in pain! hope it happens soon…i know you’re miserable…

By: lceel

lceel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:23:22 +0000

The question I have in all of this has to do with your brain and how the human brain works. What about ’stateful learning’? How much of what you learn during this time of pain induced stress are you going to be able to retain and properly use once your issue is rememdiated and the pain is gone?

By: GreenInOC

GreenInOC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:36 +0000

Another vote for following Another Becs advice.

Think of it as standing up not only for yourself but others who are in and will be in your situation who don’t the courage to speak up.

By: Sue G

Sue G — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:08:50 +0000

Actually, I think you are a very special case. But I would think that without Chiari, without headaches, without having to be given special dispensation to have extra time at tests.

I guess I define special case differently than your professor does.

For me, it’s a matter of the heart of the person.

And in that respect, yes, you are a very special case.

By: Anne T.

Anne T. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:58:58 +0000

I’m sorry that happened. It is just one more thing you don’t need. We’re all proud of you for persevering.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:56:34 +0000

What? The? Fuck?

I don’t care if he/she is the head instructor. He/she needs to be told that it is NEVER okay to deem people that need a few extra minutes as “special cases”. That is just rude and (dare I say) discriminatory and flip. Take Another Becs advice and bring it up with Disability Services. The remark was completely uncalled for.

By: Another Becs

Another Becs — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:11:47 +0000

Mr. Sensitivity – after you knee him in the crotch – needs to be told that these aren’t “special cases”. These people are students with an ADA accommodation. I know you probably don’t feel up to it, but I think Disability Services needs to be told about this.

You are not Other. You are you, with the brain-busting headache of all time.