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As someone who is _often_ late, your inability to be there in time is not someone else's problem. Unfairly punished...gimme a break.

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Its so strange to me that when it comes to college no one has any empathy whatsoever for students. Its so absurd.

Some people don't have empathy for students regarding this particular subject.

That's a common point of view, but when your disability is never someone else's problem, it becomes waaaaaay harder to manage. You should display more empathy to people that don't follow the norm.

Except in this case, there is no information to the other party that someone has a disability. So the default that we assume someone has a disability is what most people take umbrage with.

I try to be generous as much as is reasonable. I generally assume the person who cuts me off in traffic may have an urgent need, but vaulting every misdeed to an assumption that it's due to some unknown disability crosses into unreasonable territory, if for nothing else than it's probabilistically a bad assumption. Taken to the extreme, it becomes enabling for everyone who does not have a disability but gets away with bad behavior.

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