Jonathan Mooney

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829 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2021 last heard Dec 2024

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You know, I remember when I was 14 and I took the risk of advocating for the accommodation of time extensions on a history exam.

I show up to this history exam, you know, class of 30 kids.

The teacher stands in front of the class and says, Hey, anybody who needs extra time.

time on this exam should stand up now and leave the room.

Did I stand up?

No.

Uh did anybody else of the six, seven, eight, ten people who had the right to accommodation stand up?

No.

There's a stigma on it, you know, and we have to work systemically to make sure that the accommodations are not stigmatizing.

Otherwise, it's a very difficult thing to ask a young person 14, 15, when being a part of the group is is everything.

It's it's it's it's a lot to ask them to to step up in that context.

So I think we need to do a good job of naming the practices in the systems.

And I don't mean that abstractly.

I mean that on the day-to-day that that stigmatize accommodations and services for folks with different brains and bodies.

And we need to be advocates for those to change in young people's lives.

Mm-hmm.

Now the other thing I'll say though is even in an imperfect system, and I tell this to young folks, we gotta fight for our right to be different.

And one of the ways that I frame that fight.

is to say that it's not an accommodation for your problem.

It's an accommodation for the limitations in an ableist system.

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