> The students at America's elite universities are supposed to be the smartest, most promising young people in the country. And yet, shocking percentages of them are claiming academic accommodations designed for students with learning disabilities.

What the actual... Lack of journalistic integrity rears its head once again. Executive function and social challenges do not make a person "not smart."

Going back to the core of the problem, I feel that this does need to be controlled. It's one thing to disability signal online to gain clout, it's a completely different thing to drain resources from genuinely disabled folks. Disabilities need to come with diagnoses.

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georgeecollins 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe the smartest, most promising young people in the country realize it is smart to claim a disability.

I am not saying they don't have one. I am saying some people have realized ways it helps to point it out and maybe not everyone is clued into that.

	▲	zamalek an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Fundamentally I would be fine with this, the system exploits us so it's only fair to exploit it in return. Practically, however, my concern remains for people who need resources to support them.