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Many people believe that we must lock down accommodations to prevent abuse by people faking disabilities, such as neurodivergence.

We can’t “hand out accommodations like candy.” But this fear of fakery is irrational. Fakery is extremely rare, as law professor Doron Dorfman has shown.

Nevertheless, the fear persist among teachers and employers, and neurodivergent people (and other disabled people) pay the price with humiliating and expensive documentation requirements that are nowhere mentioned in the statuses, as Katherine Macfarlane pointed out.

Read more about the stigma against neurodivergent people in my Psychology Today article: How Suspicion Feeds Stigma Against Neurodivergent People. https://lnkd.in/eeVeZqmF