# Thoughts on HS/college degree completed with accommodations **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 30, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-hs-college-degree-completed-with-accommodations/955218 "2021-11-30T14:24:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
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You know, you had a thread not that long ago asking the _same_ thing, with even some of the same descriptions, and got lots of good input. You might reread it. > [@What do you intend/think when you say/hear "I'm disabled"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-intend-think-when-you-say-hear-im-disabled/937268): > > Basically what the title says. I am not “disabled”, but my job involves working w/ people who claim they are, and I’m hard pressed to think of any specific way to give any meaning to that utterance. I put disabled in quotes, because the word means different things to different people in different contexts. I guess the one general interpretation I have is that the speaker expects some deference to their perception/characterization of themself, and some deference to their view of their abilitie… It seems pretty clear that some people “claim” they’re disabled and really are, and some aren’t. You’re in a job where you see a lot of false claims, but I wonder if you don’t overcompensate by judging people who truly are disabled as though they’re trying to cheat the system. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-hs-college-degree-completed-with-accommodations/955218)._