Scott Adams

Yeah, I mean, it could be.

And it does say in the article that a lot of these are mental conditions, probably most of them, like ADHD or anxiety.

And those are things that are really hard to diagnose or maybe too easy to diagnose.

I've certainly had some experience knowing that people can just literally walk into a regular doctor, not like a psychiatrist or any specialist, and just say, I have trouble focusing.

And that's about all it takes to get prescribed ADHD drugs.

Yeah.

it's pretty amazing how easy it is to get Ritalin or, you know, whatever it is you're looking for.

And that's, you know, that's probably enough for a lot of these colleges.

You know, there are more sophisticated tests and I know some people who have gone through that process to actually get diagnosed by a specialist and they, it is a rigorous process.

I'm aware of what that consists of.

And so you can have like a, a,

know a test that shows how you do on a test when you have a time limit versus when you don't have a time limit um and you know there are ways to pinpoint what the issue is mentally but a lot of people don't even go through all that and i think these um disability agencies i guess i'll call them at these colleges i think also have an incentive to just hand out these accommodations

I don't think they're very rigorous in saying you need proof from a doctor or you need some test or some process you have to go through.

The way they would put it is we're here to help people, so we're just trying to help people.

But I think the reality is also that if you just look at it from an incentives perspective, as Scott often does, the more disabled people they're quote unquote helping, the more of those disability people you need and the bigger the department grows and the more money they get.

yeah so always go to 40 of the campus suddenly you're a massive agency that needs lots of resources and um everything ends up catering to all these kids that have i thought like half of the college students were already mentally disabled anyways you know just by well i mean we can connect this story to that other story that says something like half of liberal people say they have a mental health issue right

A massive percentage of them say that, and this could be a factor in that.

They might be doing that because it gives them an advantage, right?

So pretty amazing kind of a scandal.

You know, I don't know what should be done about it other than that I would say that it's pretty terrible because I think it takes away resources from the people who do have legitimate disabilities.