my dreams aren't like your's

that should disgust and enrage you.

if any other demographic of students had a 95% failure rate, we would be demanding reform and studies to understand why that’s happening

when i was at my first university, trying to get accommodations for my ADHD, they just kept asking me what accommodations i wanted, and refused to answer when i would ask what was available to me. how the Hell am i supposed to know what i can have? what’s available???? also, i don’t know!!!! i’m an adhd sufferer, not a fucking disability expert for the fucking college, unlike you, DISABILITY EXPERT WHO WORKS FOR THE COLLEGE.

but because the us is OBSESSED with making sure no one gets anything “”for free””, she literally would not tell me what my options were until i broke down in tears and asked her why she was refusing to help me. and then she did a big sigh, like i was fucking up her entire career by *checks notes* asking the disability center in my university to help me, a disabled student

at the second uni i went to, i tried to explain to a dean that i was literally two gen eds that had nothing to do with my degree away from graduating and that i was burnt out and broke and exhausted and suicidal and i just needed to be able to finish my degree without the gen eds. and this. fucking. guy. looked me right in my face and said in the most patronizing tone he could muster “if you can’t handle it, then maybe college just isn’t for you.” keep in mind that up until that semester, i had been an honor student who made Dean’s List every semester and didn’t get below Bs. if it hadn’t been for my mental breakdown, i would have graduated cum laude, maybe even summa cum laude.

The full database can be accessed here and the ADHD page is here. The full database can be filtered by disability, by limitation, by work-related function, by topic, and by accommodation. Many of these accommodations are applicable to academic settings as well as the workplace.

Here are the section headers for ADHD accommodations ideas to give an overview of what the page contains - this post would become Do You Love the Color of the Accommodation if I attempted to list them all here

Also just heard a podcast interview with a software developer who had good suggestions

past lifes.

But now the company holiday party is upon us.

And I’ve been lying about the girlfriend.

Reasonable: “just say she couldn’t make it!”

that’s the worst part, i think. feeling like a kid. life happens around you when you’re that age. and some part of you thinks “this is temporary”—which is comforting when you’re ten, eleven, even fifteen. 

only you get to your twenties—your late 20s—and you realize that the place you’d been hoping to get to is already here. you’re here. 

what the fuck do you do with that. 

you’re here, but not in the way you wanted to be. it’s moving into a home, realizing you forgot to bring half the shit you need because you figured you’d accumulate it eventually. 

it’s sitting cross-legged on the floor where the dining room is supposed to be and a plate on your lap because you don’t have a table yet. you’ve just… never gotten around to finding one.

it’s knowing that this meal—the one you’re eating by yourself—tastes a little sad but a little liberating. you’re here. you’re alone. no one’s watching, but you wonder what score they’d use if this were a film, anyway.

you’re disconnected and so painfully in the center of your own universe.

the house is cold and drafty and empty in this vacuum you call your life.

and it’s quiet, too.

Sometimes she was my enemy and sometimes she was just my mother, an enemy in a different way.

mulder

1. beethoven villain

2. clark from the americans

3. new partner BE COOL !!!!!

4. country club bastard

5. certified public accountant

scully

1. grandma at a bar

2. clarice starling

3. all your mother asks for is one night off a year

4. best friend <3

5. machete babe

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Other advice posts that may be of interest:

How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To

Active Revision Techniques

How To Do Uni Readings

How to Revise BIG Subjects

Common Study Mistakes