Its hard to ask for accomodations when you have no diagnosis and don't know you need them

[stormdog]

And a post from yesterday, while I was at the university campus waiting for Miriam:

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Miriam is teaching in a large lecture hall that doesn't have an obvious accessible entrance for the lecturer. Because she is still getting a handle on her capabilities, and she's never been in these rooms, she didn't think about asking for accommodations beyond

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[anais_pf]

There has to be an outlet somewhere in the building. Go find it and sit there and do your thing until an agreed-upon time when you'll go back and fetch Miriam.

Also, Miriam should ask to have her class moved to a room where she can get herself in and out without you. You should not have to go with her every time. I don't think she should need a diagnosis in order to make it clear she can't make it up and down the stairs alone.

[stormdog]

I'm sure I can find another spot. I was kind of ensconced in the back room with lectures happening in both lecture halls it was connected to before I realized there was no outlet. Now I know!

I don't know what they can or will do to accommodate her. She emailed the department head who said that he wasn't sure if any accommodation requests were made regarding this, but it may not be possible to find a new room for a class with 150 people in it. Miriam said, in a way whose subtext was that was far more frustrating for her than for him, that one of the parts of being newly disabled is that you keep discovering new things that you had never even thought about before but are now unable to do. She did say that it would probably interfere with the quality of her teaching.

I agree that they should do something. But I don't know iif they will, or if they are required to when she doesn't have any documentable medical reason.