I specifically hate the idea of PTSD being an illness or disability. It is an adaptive response to highly threatening situations. It is a survival mechanism; it is how people live through sustained danger. It is the nervous system learning it needs to be prepared. That’s not an illness, that’s a strength. In nearly…

The point is, if you have a disability, you shouldn’t have to worry about whether you’ll be accommodated or not. Your system would be like saying “students should request a wheelchair-accessible classroom if needed.” (Imagine if your day consisted of having to request entry to every building and room.)

EXACTLY. Just a heads-up is probably all that’s required. It’s not coddling—it’s just fair warning. And then maybe a student who might have a hard time with something like that would either take the opportunity to talk with the professor and watch it on their own time when they’re prepared for it, or even just, you…

I don’t think so. For sensitive topics like gender, race, sexuality, and violence, enough of the population is affected that it seems practical to just give notice about those kinds of content by default, and not put the onus on individual students to ask for it. (If you do it by default, it’s less work anyway, since…

The problem is that it really doesn’t matter what you call it. The stigma will follow the term, kinda like the same way “Special Education” became “Exceptional Education” which became “Alternative Education”, and yet every “normal” kid magically seemed to know who the “slow kids” were and still abused them verbally…

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing. So much of the discussion about this is so alarmist and polarizing. Just a couple thoughts:

The internet makes this seem mroe common than it is. In 2012, you’d have sworn that the whole country was going ape shit and was ready to boot Obama from office..........and then he won, easily. The reality is that just because people can scream doesn’t mean they’re the majority. Just like now, Trump supporters swear…

Given the current political climate, it seems that anything left of far right is “unpopular” opinion.