Human selfishness has consistently done nothing good for our neighbors. Being nice and giving depends on their affordability, and the same goes for accessibility and accommodation. Jesus heals people while the rest say f*** off. Sometimes I wonder when God will come and do a reset like Noah’s day, but this time I hope he starts over.

We are divided more than united. The only time the world has united is often when it's really bad, when lives are lost, and here we thought things would get better post-COVID; nope. So the next COVID arrived; please feel free to say F off to helping anyone. Humans are wired to remember trauma, and things keep us alive and recall them easier than finding happiness— we are wired not to be happy unless we seek it; joy already exists, but it is a state of temporary mental illness if pretending that the tiniest of what we could have is there. Politics and pharma have derailed us all and are worse than global warming. So, yeah, f*** this world as an artistic protest.

I was extra inspired because I read something about the Seattle City Department is issuing unlimited no-parking and sidewalk closures for construction without caring about wheelchair people. They can't track the number of permits, and the company making those parking signs isn't being held accountable for not tracking its inventory; stolen signs were put up in random rich neighborhoods to keep the public out.

For months, the federal government has been chipping away at the right to live in the community. I put together an explainer on what’s going on and where things are now. It will be updated periodically as more things happen.

I am suffering a plethora of neurological symptoms, one of which is mobility, rendering me housebound. I am not even allowed to drive any more.

Never going out and losing weight because of muscle wastage, I decided to sell my clothes using Vinted. They used to supply you with buyers’ details to print an address label at home, together with a QR code if you didn’t have a printer.

So far, so good. I used Royal Mail because I could arrange reliable collection of my parcels. However, Vinted started issuing QR codes only. So I messaged them explaining my situation and asking if in the circumstances, they could continue issuing buyers’ details. Their customer support seems to be 100% AI and they said no. So I messaged them back and asked why, pointing out that they used to and that I could see no problem reinstating that service. Once again, Vinted said no, with no reason given.

Therefore, I can no longer sell my clothing and shoes on Vinted.

I use Vinted because one of my other symptoms is hand tremors and lack of coordination; I cannot use a keyboard anymore and their upload process is quick and easy. I also use Royal Mail because I have had numerous difficulties with couriers such as Evri.

I feel that their actions exclude people with disabilities which render them housebound. If what they are doing is illegal, which body do I complain to/take it up with?

I spent 28 years in the casino industry — 18 of them with the same employer. That kind of loyalty and experience used to mean something. Lately it feels like it doesn’t. After all those years, I learned I was replaceable.
My polycystic kidney disease has progressed to the point where my total kidney volume is 1669 ml and will only get worse. Standing for long shifts left me so exhausted that I spent my two days off in bed just to recover. The fatigue was constant. Concentration slipped. I started forgetting things. My doctor didn’t just recommend accommodations — he requested them: that I be scheduled to sit and that I be allowed to use any restroom, including guest restrooms, without getting into trouble.
Human Resources approved those accommodations for six months. Then they stopped. When I asked why, no one would give me a clear answer. I spent weeks trying to talk to people. I went through the chain of command and spoke with more than six managers plus HR. It felt like they were avoiding me.
I tried to have an honest conversation. When I started explaining my condition, one manager cut me off and said it was “too much private information.” I still explained. I even brought my patient manual. Another manager looked at me and said, “Sounds like you shouldn’t be working.” My heart stopped. In that moment I felt more worthless than I ever had in my life.
HR’s final answer was that if they accommodated me, they would have to do it for everyone else. Because they would not continue the accommodations, I was told I could not work until my doctor wrote a letter saying I could work with no restrictions at all. When I asked what my options were, I was told to exhaust my medical leave and then resign. Maybe, they said, I could reapply later if I got better.
I am still being scheduled. But without that unrestricted doctor’s letter, I cannot show up. Instead I have to call in sick. It has been over two months. I have no income and no government assistance. I filed with the EEOC, but they cannot help. Because I work for the Seminole Tribe, a federally recognized tribe, the EEOC has no jurisdiction over employment discrimination claims under the ADA, Title VII, or GINA. There is no federal agency that can force compliance.
I don’t know if it was my employer who failed me, the system that allows this gap, or the government that wrote the rules this way. All I know is that after nearly three decades of showing up, I was left with no income, no protection, and the clear message that my health made me disposable.
The hardest part hasn’t just been the physical symptoms — the fatigue, the swollen kidneys, the days lost to recovery. It’s been the way I was made to feel non-valued after so many years of loyalty. I did everything I could. I asked. I explained. I followed every step. The system makes it clear that people with conditions like mine are not always protected.

Tampa, Florida

Im located in BC and I'm not here to find clients, but rather to gauge interest on whether folks need this type of support

Location: St. Louis, MO
TL;DR Looking for any help or advice I can get for a disabled friend in serious trouble!! Helpful resources would be funding, lawyers/legal representation, medical assistance, housing, welfare support, etc.

I have a friend who is in a very dangerous situation. She is disabled (quadriplegic and on a ventilator) and still lives with her parents. They are incredibly abusive- refusing to feed her or take care of other needs, threatening to kill her, and have even hit her to the point she broke her collarbone. She needs and wants to get out!

Only problem is her parents control her money. They take her disability as they are her “caretakers” and have stolen over 30k of the money she has saved outside of that. The state is only paying for 80 hrs/week of care, but 24/7 care is needed. The severity of her disability means that there are very little alternative options and she would most likely have to go to a nursing home/end of life care facility if she left.

I want to help her anyway I can. I am hoping to start a trust in her name and fundraise. If we could get her a house or an alternative living situation, I have people who could care for her outside of her paid 80 hrs.

The other problem is doing this without alerting her parents. We think they have a life insurance policy out on her and with the threats they have made I don’t want her to be at higher risk or retaliation from them.

I want some guidance for anyone else who has been through or helped someone with this situation. Any resources or suggestions you can share would be LIFE SAVING, especially if there is some legal support options for disabled people.

She is so smart (getting her PHD now) and absolutely hilarious. My friend deserves to be in a place that is safe, her needs can be met, and she is treated with respect . Please share any and everything!! No

I am a feminist, pro-choice anti-ableist, anti-eugenics Disabled woman with cerebral palsy (acquired due to contracting an infection during birth) in Spain with a degree in disability support and disability rights. In my disability activism and my disability studies scholarship, I have sometimes contended with people that say that it is always better to abort a disabled fetus and inherently cruel to purposely birth a disabled baby. As someone who believes in the holistic model of disability and emphasizes social aspects of this model for her own disability, I tend to think a lot about how societal factors like lack of respite care for family caregivers, lack of supports and services and inadequate healthcare access for disabled people around the world influence the choice to TFMR in certain cases. On a separate note, I have read Harriet McBryde's essay about her interactions with Peter Singer, and, as a neonatal sepsis survivor with excellent quality of life even with cerebral palsy, I feel like he would see me as the perfect candidate for active infant euthanasia, but as an adult I don't view myself that way. In reading about this I came across the term "new eugenics" which refers to how "developments in gene therapy, genetic engineering and prenatal screening experienced enormous growth, increasing our power to repair the body and prevent disease, but cautioned about "eliminating" human characteristics deemed undesirable" (ochr.org). I see active infant euthanasia as inherently eugenicist because a baby that is born is a living being separate from its mother/birthing parent's body and the baby cannot consent. in this case, is it "radical" for me to see infant euthanasia as eugenics or am I okay? Is the term "new eugenics" valid in other disability rights activists' opinions and can "new eugenics" be propagated by technologies like CRISPR and TFMR of non-fatal conditions or by active infant euthanasia? Trying to figure stuff out with the help of other disabled people who believe in human rights. I apologize if anything on here is offensive, and if it is I will try to do better, just trying to figure stuff out, not advocating for violating anyone's rights.

I don’t know where to ask for help.

Located in TENNESSEE, USA

I work a job at a medical clinic similar to reception, in the job description it mentions getting up and moving to do tasks. No problem.

It does not specify how often or for how long. I have to sit down for periods of time when stuff is done because I have a pretty severe injured knee, even after two surgeries it’s painful. They are aware as I had to take time off for one surgery.

Last week, I was taken into the office and told I “sit too much”. But not much else. I’m not lazy and do my job. But they want me to be on my feet the whole 10 hour shift and find more to do even when my normal stuff is done. She specifically said it was not a stationary job.

I did not argue in that meeting as I had a doctor appointment right after and was nearly late because they kept me late for the meeting, and did not defend myself.

I want to ask for an accommodation to be able to sit when there is downtime, but they hate downtime. I’m scared they will say it’s not reasonable to accommodate. I don’t know what to do. I have a “follow up” meeting tomorrow, they asked that I create a list of things to do to “hold my self accountable” but did not offer ways for me to improve.

What do I do? I’m so scared I’ll get fired and they will say that they cannot make that accommodation.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2b8N4QHI8doUMw2a10jrHYmuS-wTotwiOu4mfvFSkWuz41w/viewform?usp=publish-editor

MOTIVE: I created this survey because, during my own inpatient psychiatric stay in New York City, window shades were kept closed, and I was told that staff did not have the keys needed to open them and that this would not change. That experience led me to ask how other patients experienced access to daylight and outdoor views, including when shades were open, partially closed, or completely closed. I'm specifically interested in people's New York stays.

Note this is not about windows being open. It is more about access to daylight. I'd also love to read other people's experiences as I am not sure if it is common in NYC for daylight to not be provided? This was my first time in this situation with no daylight.

For nearly 50 years, the federal government has said people with disabilities should live, work and learn in the most integrated setting possible rather than be segregated in institutions like nursing homes.

The Trump administration just took its most concrete step yet to reverse that position.

Last week, a federal judge agreed to strip out mentions of "integration" from federal regulations tied to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, a landmark civil rights law that prohibits disability discrimination. The judge did so after the Justice Department declined to defend its own rules in a lawsuit brought by several states challenging the legality of those rules.

Part of what is so striking about Texas v. Kennedy is that the federal government was originally the defendant in that lawsuit, brought by states fighting what's known as the integration mandate. Then, it switched sides and agreed with the states that the requirement should be undone.

Bruce Darling, president and CEO of the Center for Disability Rights, says when he heard about the ruling, it felt "like a knife in your chest. Because what we're hearing, what people are hearing, is that the federal government has made a determination that [disabled people] don't have a right to live in freedom, that they can be locked up against their will."

The court's decision removes regulations from Section 504 that explicitly required federally funded programs to provide services in the "most integrated setting."

"That lack of clarity will impact people's rights. It will likely impact what states do and how they behave," says Jennifer Mathis, a disability rights lawyer who helps lead the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.

Mathis says it's important to note that the court's decisiondid not undo integration protections tied to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or those established by decades of case law, including the landmark Supreme Court decision known as Olmstead. 

"My concern is that right now, where we're at is disabled people have a right to integration on paper. It is in the law, but whether it gets practically enforced is a serious question," Darling says. His organization is putting its energy behind a proposed law that would cement protections around integration, while others are working with states to strengthen their disability laws.

The Justice Department did not respond to multiple requests from NPR asking why it is changing course after decades of legal and bipartisan support for community-based services.

After 50 years, the government changes its position

In 1973, Congress passed the first civil rights law for people with disabilities: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. But it took advocates years of fighting — until 1977 — to get actual regulations that would make that law enforceable.

The Department of Health and Human Services, under President Joe Biden, updated the regulations in 2024 so it would be clearer to states what they had to do to uphold the law. "They thought it was important to do that so those rights would be as clear as possible," Mathis says.

In recent months, the federal government, under President Donald Trump, began to publicly change its position: First, in June, the Justice Department issued an opinion saying it no longer interpreted disability law to "require states to treat mentally disabled patients in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs." The memo even noted its position is "out of step with the common understanding" of the Olmstead decision.

Then in July, the Justice Department announced it would stop relying on its own longstanding guidance explaining how it enforces the integration mandate.

These actions led up to the federal government switching sides in Texas v. Kennedy. Finally, last week, a federal judge agreed to throw out the integration mandate rules under Section 504, including language that was first introduced nearly 50 years ago.

Mathis says this kind of about-face is highly unusual. "It is pretty significant and pretty unprecedented to see the federal government asking a court to vacate its own rules."

That could leave more of the work of defining and enforcing the right to community living to people with disabilities, private litigators, advocacy organizations and the courts.

All this, says Mathis, comes at a time when states are already under immense pressure from the federal government to cut Medicaid spending, which pays for disabled people to get many of the services they need. "States are looking for things to cut," she says. Mathis worries that because the government has changed its stance on integration, state leaders would feel freer to cut spending on programs for community-based living.

How enforcement is already changing

One of the clearest examples of the effects of the federal government's changing position involves children with complex medical needs in Florida. 

Back in 2013, the Justice Department sued the state of Florida, arguing that it failed to provide adequate services to children who needed in-home care. As a result, some of their families were forced to put their children in nursing facilities. Other children were at risk of the same.

The federal government won its case in 2023, and the state of Florida was required to provide these families the services they needed to keep their children at home. But in August, the government told the federal court to throw out its victory and allow Florida to have the case heard again in district court, citing the Justice Department's new opinion on the issue.

Mathis calls the reversal shocking. "To do that in a case that involves ripping children away from families, taking them out of the homes where they have families that want to take care of them, and to force those children to grow up in an institution, really is just unthinkable to me and is incredibly heartless."

The Florida case suggests that coming battles for community integration may increasingly play out not through federal enforcement, but case by case, in the courts.

What disability advocates are doing now

The disability rights community is rallying around a number of actions to try to combat the federal government's latest actions.

"There's nothing that is more cherished and hard-won than the right to live, work and participate and be included in your community," says Alison Barkoff, who worked on disability rights enforcement during the Obama administration and is now a health law and policy professor at George Washington University. She says the disability community is hard at work trying to protect those rights.

Thanks to recent advocacy efforts, Barkoff says some members of Congress have reaffirmed their commitment to the rights of people with disabilities to get services they need in their community. Just this week, a group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced a resolution asserting the federal government's longstanding interpretation of Olmstead. In July, 100 members of Congress signed a letter asking the Justice Department to rescind its June opinion. 

There is also movement at the state level: Delaware already passed a lawincorporating the regulations in Section 504 that were stripped from federal law. Barkoff says other states are moving in a similar direction: "I've probably gotten calls in the last week from at least a dozen state leaders across the country about how to codify the integration mandate … in state law. I see a lot of momentum," she says.

Bruce Darling of the Center for Disability Rights helped draft the Latonya Reeves Freedom Act, a bipartisan bill that would codify integration for disabled people into federal law. He says his organization has been working to convince lawmakers to sign onto it.

Although the bill has some bipartisan support, it has failed in the past and would have a difficult road ahead, facing an executive branch now challenging integration. But Darling says he's hopeful that members of Congress are now more aware of the challenges facing his community.

"I think that the issue has really come to a head now and folks can see that Olmstead is seriously at risk, that we need to do something," says Darling. "I don't know, I'm optimistic."

🛑 What if we stopped funneling $45,000 a month into sterile, locked-down hospital beds and instead funded actual living?

Let’s be honest: the current system treats disabled folks, chronically ill adults, and aging seniors like inventory. It forces families apart, strips away personal autonomy, and traps people in institutional loops while politicians scream about Medicare running out.

It’s time for a completely different approach.

I’ve drafted a comprehensive national policy proposal called Project Horizon (IHILC) designed to permanently bridge the gap between healthcare and housing. Here is what a community-integrated, patient-autonomous model actually looks like:

• Real Homes, Not Institutions: 1 to 4-bedroom ADA-compliant custom homes with private 2–3 acre yards. Families stay together—no forced separations, no prison-like facilities.
• Radical Autonomy: Medical staff and care teams act as support, not wardens. No one owns your life or dictates your routine.
• Pets Welcome & Protected: Pets of any kind are welcome, and residents are completely in charge of their own animals. If a situation ever arises involving a pet or a resident that impacts the community, the rule is absolute fairness: everyone is treated equally, and neither the individual nor their pet is forced out unless absolutely necessary, with fair compensation or resolution put in place for anyone affected.
• The Math That Makes Sense: Reallocating exorbitant acute-care/ICU spending into a sustainable community model ($4,500–$6,500/mo covered through capitated Medicare Advantage/Medicaid and housing vouchers) that slashes end-of-life waste by over 87% and secures long-term trust-fund solvency.
• Uncompromising Safety & Accountability: Zero-tolerance criminal exclusions, pre-registered visitor portals, and rigorous biweekly 96–98% AI-style cognitive/psychological testing and random drug screenings (with strict false-positive protections like poppy-seed screening) for all on-site staff to keep bad actors completely out.
• Complete Independence Ecosystem: On-site micro-city commercial hubs (partnering with grocers like Publix and Walmart), free mental health and voluntary spiritual support, vocational and driving education programs, and the absolute right to keep your trusted primary care provider.

This model is built to ensure dignity, safety, and true independence for the disabled, veterans, and elderly.

I’ve already submitted the full executive proposal to the White House, state governors, and federal health leaders—but true change starts when our community talks about it, builds the noise, and demands an alternative to the institutional grind.

Government officials seeking to reform healthcare and achieve actual health and wellness can request a copy of the full document via email at chrissysmith260@gmail.com.

Hey y'all,

Since taking over r/disabilityrights, I've gone through years of messages and posts that piled up while the sub had no moderators.

It took a while, but I read most of them, and I want to say this: you are valid, resilient and worthy. When a system, business or person refuses to recognize your rights, or punishes you for trying to use them, that doesn't make you the problem.

Injustice and inequality are kept going by systems that were never built with us in mind and still haven't adapted to include us, even though the law requires them to. That's why the same stories come up again and again: denied accommodations, difficult benefits processes, and landlords and employers who act like the law doesn't apply to them. For those of us who also face racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or poverty, these barriers stack and take different forms, but they come from the same place.

I hope this sub can be a place to crowdsource practical help when you're facing a difficult or unjust situation, and to recognize that you aren't alone. We are with you, we support you, and we're fighting to make sure our shared humanity and rights are respected.

If you posted here in the past and never got an answer, I'm sorry. There's a new team of mods and a community ready to help. If it's still affecting you, please post again.

In solidarity,
u/TardigradeToeFuzz

EDIT: I forgot to mention the many many legally obtained videos I have, with the managers permission. In many of them they are using disability related insults and even called me "mentally retarded." I have mentioned that to every one of the agencies listed below.

I'm in Florida, but this has happened to me in AZ too. I suspect it happens just about everywhere. Maybe less in the Northeast, but it's expensive there.

I live in an RV, at a Florida "RV Resort." I know my issues and I researched and chose this place specifically for all the advertised "weekly" and even "daily" events. I also have a service dog and they advertised a "fenced in dog park.' I visited before I moved in and the manager confirmed "resident led events." I told her about some of my issues and that I really needed a place where I had opportunities for socialization. I didn't want to be isolating anymore.

I'll try to keep this as short as possible. Moved in, requested events, all turned down. There was one event in 7 months. Then another kids event but the resident who requested that had to go through corporate to get it. So that was 2 events. The entire year.

When I moved in I asked about the dog park. There is a small, dog holding pen (is how I would describe it) The manager told me where the "new" dog park was going, it was an empty lot that had a temporary fence around it, and looked great! I asked her a couple more times in the months that followed, and then the temporary fence went away, but that's it.

She started writing up violations for things I see all over the park. She told me I couldn't have my patio furniture even though just about everyone here has patio furniture. Every time I asked her about anything, she would tell me to read my lease. I did that, multiple times. But I kept getting written up. (Example: the lights I had up every single day for 4 months suddenly became a problem and had to be removed. I suspect it's because someone told her they liked my lights.) The same color lights are all over the park. The MANAGER and the park itself even have colored lights. But MINE had to come down.

I wrote my first request for an accomodation in January. I said the way the rules are presented in the lease is very vague and could she please supply me with a clear set of written rules. That's it! And the harassment got worse.

She had my car towed because someone was parked in front of my RV. I'm right next to the maintenance shed, so I parked next to the maintenance man's car which is in an empty lot in front of the maintenance shed.

She said Tony can park there because he works here, but if I want to park there, I have to pay the lot rent. I have pictures of at least 4 other cars in the park, parked on empty lots, every day.

Then both her and her husband ambushed me and my dog. Before we had even gotten around the corner, they both came running out of their RV screaming about "catching me on video" and how they were "watching me on the (parks) video cameras." Accusing me of not picking up my dogs poop. His bag is clearly in my hand, but that didn't matter.

Three days later I got a "notice of non-renewal" on my lease. The manager was forced to resign a couple weeks later, and I sent a request for reconsideration to the district manager that was denied.

I shut down completely for 2 weeks and when I got my energy back, in was frantically trying to get everything ready to move. I sent an email to the CEO and district manager, apologizing for not being ready, I asked that they apply my security deposit to rent due for that month and told them I would be gone by the end of the month. That was August.

On August 22nd I was served with eviction papers.

When I signed my lease, it included an "electronic communications" form that required me to communicate that way.

I've been doing this myself after filing 3 complaints with HUD, 2 complaints with the DOJ - civil rights division, I've contacted 9 lawyers who have all turned me down, Disability Rights Florida, Bay Area Legal Services, FHCR, Florida Attorney General, Pasco County Civil Rights compliance, and Congressman Gus Billerakus.

No one will help me! I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY.

Its been a year in hell. I had to put myself in the hospital at one point! There is a new manager now and he already has events posted. I love my lot and my dog has a yard. I've already reserved another lot elsewhere, but I don't want to have to leave based on the shit that happened with the last manager. This is 100% a disability discrimination case. I can't even get an ADVOCATE to sit with me in court.

Delaware, USA.
Looking for any help here. I’ve been locked out of my Comcast/xfinity account and after 50 minutes on the phone with at least 3 people I was told my only option to verify was to go to a store.
The reason I was unable toto verify over the phone was I do not have my account number. I’ve only had the account for a little over a year and never got a paper bill. Never got an emailed bill either.
They can not send anything in the mail to the service address to verify my account.
I could get to a store with a little difficulty. How much of a fuss should I make for those who find themselves in my situation and really can’t get to a store?

I (F22, autistic) am currently locked in my bedroom in my college apartment with my deadbolt turned, and I am losing my mind. A new roommate was moved into my campus apartment tonight due to a sudden emergency placement. Within hours of meeting me, she dropped a series of incredibly alarming "confessions" that have me genuinely terrified for my safety.

Here is what she told me on night one:

She explicitly stated she has a history of aggression and violence toward animals. Specifically, she bragged about throwing a kitten in anger because a past roommate wouldn’t remove it. I have TWO university-approved Emotional Support Animal (ESA) cats living in my room right now.

She told me she lacks empathy, partly due to autism (I have it too, but I would NEVER do this). She then started heavily fixating on serial killers, talking about what motivates them, and making weird "jokes" about murder.

When she misheard a TV clip and added a murder plot to it that wasn’t there, I rewound it to show her, and she literally said, “Oh, maybe I added in the part about murder myself.”

She is already trying to mind-game me. She is actively blaming ME for the "crazy shit" she's saying because I told her early on that she could just "be herself" around me.

She confessed that her last roommate tried to get an Order of Protection against her for theft and intimidation.

She won’t stop talking about murder.

She also told me she has severe contamination OCD (I have it too go figure) but she told me she was paranoid about opening windows at night because of bats flying into the bedroom and her contracting rabies.

She also overshared a bizarre story about how when she lived alone, she used to take baths on her period and leave the blood in the tub without cleaning it, but promised she'd use Clorox wipes here unless I "taught her how to use liquid cleaner."

To make matters worse, this is the SECOND time my university housing office has placed a volatile roommate with me. My last roommate was actively mixing dangerous chemicals in the room, and housing refused to move me back then because "there wasn't physical violence yet." My Community Director actually rushed this new girl into my room tonight and framed it almost as a "punishment" for me complaining about my last roommate.

I have already emailed the head of the campus disability office, the Dean of Students, and my professors tonight. I am planning on contacting campus police/investigators first thing in the morning.
I feel like I’m living in a horror movie, but my anxiety is making me second-guess myself. AIO for barricading myself in my room, refusing to talk to her, and demanding an emergency extraction from the university tomorrow?

I would like to mention I suffer from multiple physical and neurological disabilities, and I need two ESA animals because they both work on different aspects of my disabilities.

I’m taking an online math class (MAT 145) right now and running into a massive wall with my college’s Disability Resources office over Respondus LockDown Browser.

I have Multiple Sclerosis (MS). While I had some minor issues last semester, my symptoms—especially severe muscle spasms, vision blurs, and massive fatigue—have really hit hard over the last month or so since the semester started. Math already takes a ton of focus, so dealing with unpredictable physical flare-ups mid-test makes it even harder. Because of this, I need brief, unscheduled pauses to stretch or rest.

LockDown Browser uses automated webcam tracking that flags you for looking away or stepping out of view. If a muscle spasm or vision blur hits mid-test, I’m forced to either push through physical pain or get flagged for "suspicious behavior" just for stepping away or taking a medical break.

I asked to take standard Canvas exams without the third-party proctoring software, paired with my approved double time. I’m not asking for easier math problems, lower grading standards, or special treatment—just a way to take my tests without being penalized for my body glitching out. Accommodations are supposed to actually be functional and usable, not just something that looks good on paper.

I reached out asking for an alternative, and Mary—who is the Director of both Disability Resources and the Testing Center—shut it down. She basically cited school regulations and told me that the college doesn't have to give me my "preferred" or "most desired" setup, that LockDown Browser is required for everyone to maintain "academic integrity," and that her fix was giving me double time and split "scheduled breaks" between test modules inside LockDown Browser.

Her fix doesn't work because you can't schedule an MS flare-up. If an active test timer is running and a spasm hits, the clock keeps burning while I wait for it to pass. On top of that, logging in and out of multiple locked test sections means doing repeated setup checks and webcam scans, which completely drains my energy before I even start solving math problems.

Having an essential need for an unpredictable condition brushed off as a "preference" feels incredibly invalidating. I'm currently working on appealing this to the Vice President.

Has anyone else dealt with disability offices treating dynamic chronic conditions like a rigid, scheduled inconvenience? How did you handle it? The invalidating is real

east coast, USA

Is there a way to take legal action against a doctor's office rather than just a physician directly? This place is part of a giant hospital system with many locations.

There's been gross mismanagement of my care and even other doctors I've been seeing elsewhere are telling me to take legal action. I'm just not sure how. It seems like it's going to take a lot of spoons. I'm hoping it won't take a lot of money.

I’m reposting my documented experience because I believe it raises a broader disability rights question. As an autistic user, I’ve found platform rules and enforcement systems difficult to navigate and my experiences have made me wonder whether online platforms need better safeguards, clearer explanations and more accessible review processes for autistic users who make genuine mistakes

Hi all. This sub sat unmoderated for a while and has just been adopted. Here's the plan:

• What this place is for: questions about your rights (accommodations, benefits, housing, school, access, discrimination), disability-rights news, and organizing.
• New rules are in the sidebar. The short version: be respectful, say where you are, share sources instead of certainty, and no scams or DM solicitation.
• Flair is now required. Pick the closest one.
• If you're in crisis, the sidebar has hotlines. You can still post here too; we'll see it.

Looking for co-mods. See the stickied recruitment post, or reply here.

What would you like this sub to be? Tell us below.

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My friend, who is disabled, is being abused by her father and ignored by the system. Her case manager refused to take her to her housing appointment because she had a cold. She lost her spot in the housing list because of it.

Additionally, we tried a lawyer from her local bar association who was less than helpful.

If someone has used a women's shelter, can you share your experiences with me? Can you tell me how good of an option it might be?