GRRRR-Paranoid, Ignorant people-Discrimination!

[bookwormde]

Funny lots of jobs that neurotypicals a need lot of extra help for. How much time each day is spent socializing and someone else has to make up for that time, or lots of degreed individuals who cannot even do basic math skills without the encumbrance of paper and pencil. What is being realized now is that it is the “fit” of the job that is important.

We are all part of a community and everyone has lacking abilities (disabilities) that others help with. The real issue is finding the right position for the special abilities if each person. Unfortunately this is not well done in our current societal structure, where other factors seem to take precedence.

I have supervised and had to work with and “clean up” after lots of neurotypical people with lacks of abilities (disabled) who because they are part of the social majority it is considered acceptable (or at least tolerated) I good manager builds on abilities and supports the worker were abilities are lacking, sound like either in this case the “business”, the supervisor or both are not doing there job (maybe because of a lack of ability on there part also).

Sounds like she might be a good person to work with persons with varying neurotypes and in enlightening those who do not “get” the bigger picture and how openly discriminatory our societal structures are to “non standard people”.

I guess society should not have had the benefit of such people as Hawkings.

bookwormde

 

[BeckyScott]

I guess society should not have had the benefit of such people as Hawkings.

bookwormde

Where is the smilie for "I just spit coffee all over my monitor?"

I sincerely hope that when my son is an adult, he can find a boss like you.

Schmeck, the doctor and businesswoman in your post, it wouldn't be unusual for them to have assistance. Doctors use tape recorders- and they have medical transcriptionists- it's great that your doc types his own notes but mine sure doesn't, if everyone did that the medical transcription business would be non-existant. Businesswoman, at some point should have a secretary, and the secretary should know up-front what she's in for. How many business-people do you know that in fact the secretary is signing the name on the letters, sight unseen by the boss?

Now, having said that, I do know sort of where you're coming from. The community college where I work, there are some students that have no business being there, really. The problem seems to be that the first wave (if you will) of kids who were IDEA protected from kg, are just now hitting college age. And nobody knows what to do about it. They had modified curriculum and supports throughout their whole school career, managed to get a real diploma, but are totally unprepared (and sometimes truly incapable) of college-level work. However, the kids I'm talking about, it's not a matter of a note-taker or restroom accomodations.

I once had a long talk with our service coordinator about that situation. About what you're supposed to do with a kid who aspires to say, be a brain surgeon, but you know it's just not even possible. I wouldn't want someone telling my kid what they believed to be the extent of his potential. That's not anybody's job. And it reeks of socialism and it's a step backward for the disabled community. However, then, there is reality. And reality is that everyone, disabled or not, has talent in some area, there is something they're good at, and disabled or not you try to find that skill and use it in the future. I don't have any learning disabilities, I could make you a tuxedo from scratch but you don't want me to balance your checkbook, ever. Anyway, the service coordinator said their policy is that everyone has the "right to fail". It's not their job to tell someone they can't do something. It's their job to be as supportive as possible, and to help each person line up those baby-steps to reach their goal. And at some point if the person hits the wall and isn't able to achieve the next step, then the person has a right to come to that conclusion themselves, to deal with it themselves, and to decide to modify their goal.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

This thread has been getting very argumentative. I think BeckyScott's last post has hit the nail on the head and is a good point to stop the arguing.