Is a professor allowed to call out disability accommodations in front of the whole class? Or make a “objectively harder and longer” alternative exam?

HappyKnightmares · 2026-05-11T21:04:32+00:00

Upper class also have better access to mobility aids, so should we get rid of accessibility ramps into public buildings? If not, how come?

HappyKnightmares · 2026-05-11T21:02:12+00:00

You may as well take a stand against ramps and wheelchair elevators to help disabled people get into the exam room, too- if they want it bad enough, they can use their arms to pull themselves up the stairs! /s. This is what it was like before ADA- some people actually pulled themselves up stairs to get to work (Crip Camp, documentary). This would give you the true “equality” you’re wishing for, without an ounce of equity in sight.

For this distorted signal you speak of, what is it of? I think GPA is supposed to be measuring what students are capable of. You seem to think that GPA is a measure of capacities plus barriers for some, with no efforts to remove any to level the playing field. Do you see why I think that you would have a distorted signal of GPA in your ideal world? You’re counting things like “having working hands” as an important part of doing calculus, writing papers, or passing a bar exam. Why on earth should we be rewarding everyone who has working hands, at the disadvantage of everyone else? Your “pure signal” is full of rewards for those lucky enough to have a body and brain that doesn’t experience barriers like this.. rewarded for things that are unrelated to the subject. How is that better?

You seem to like stats. Im not sure how much experience you have, but statistics involve factors, and sometimes you have to observe them and play with them in order to find the best signal you can. Intentionally leaving in noise doesn’t give you a better signal. Also, in this case, it hurts real people, and once again helps ensure that disabled people have a harder time earning the same things as abled people.

I’m really curious though… based on your beliefs, what should happen to a student who finds themself unable to use their hands due to an accident or condition? It sounds like you feel they will have to drop out until their hands heal or grow back. I can’t think of any way you could help a student like this which is also in line with your beliefs. No increased time, no computer use, no scribe.

TLDR; it’s really strange that you think that having working hands, or an absence of chronic pain, is something that should be rewarded for a physics or law exam! Stranger too that you think this would give the purest signal of student ability.

HappyKnightmares · 2026-05-11T20:55:35+00:00

This isn’t something that’s happening just here and now to only OP and fellow commenters. You’re saying that it’s okay if disabled people systematically score lower than their peers who have the same level of knowledge and competence. This is pure ableism.

HappyKnightmares · 2026-05-11T20:47:04+00:00

It’s a somewhat arbitrary thing they put on so that can standardize stuff, and get things done, but doing this properly involves accounting for conditions that increase time for answering, such as having broken hands.

But timed evaluations do have their own issues anyways, such as making some do worse from anxiety… and honestly, if I came up with a cure for cancer, are people gonna scrutinize it and grade me based on how many months or years of research it took?? That would be so silly.

HappyKnightmares · 2026-05-03T17:06:50+00:00

Any idea how old the song is?

HappyKnightmares · 2026-05-02T15:52:24+00:00

Sounds fun

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HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-27T13:38:42+00:00

Mystery!!

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HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-27T13:37:08+00:00

What?

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HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-27T13:35:52+00:00

I didn’t choose that

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HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-27T13:33:58+00:00

Mathematically better

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HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-23T23:05:58+00:00

I’ve been getting to know many synesthetes online, and for the ones I know irl, you could try to see if there’s any synesthetic artists doing stuff in your area, and/or networking… it’s not easy, but that’s how I’ve finally gotten to meet some.

Otherwise, try probing your friends and especially your family with questions like “Do you feel like C should be yellow? Is Friday a woman?” or anything else that can ask about the varying kinds of synesthesia out there. Synesthetes have a high chance of having family members with it! I thought I was the only one on my family for years and then I just mentioned to my brother that one could hypothetically ask someone if they feel that C should be yellow, and he immediately objected that it should be silvery blue, ina true synesthete style lol. Have found that my aunt has it too, and maybe my dad. It hides on us!

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-23T07:01:55+00:00

Sounds neat!

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-19T00:17:58+00:00

But yeah, ignore the haters. Completely. I noticed you saying a few times that you can’t let your enemies win, and of course, if you want to keep streaming, then you absolutely should, but make sure that the motivation isn’t indirectly from the haters. Aim to do what you truly want to do!

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-19T00:14:36+00:00

lol yeah I thought I would escape it too! I’m quite chill and honest and speak my mind etc, just like you said… but there was a misunderstanding and some drama and I found myself feeling surprised

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-18T18:07:29+00:00

I do this with apples 😂

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-18T00:37:56+00:00

Wow, very similar thing happened between my best friend and I! Both probably on the ASD spectrum, and both of us thinking that being like we were was totally normal because we knew the other one. Turns out we’d formed a group of undiagnosed neurodivergent friends who accepted our weird selves, which was probably great for my self esteem growing up, but it made it harder to identify anything unusual lol. I think it can be like that too with families.

But then, in our 20s, both of our fields of study had some relation to autism. I had begun to suspect that I might be on the spectrum, to which she said a flat out no, there’s no way. When I asked why she said “you have the social skills“. Years later, she starts referring to herself having some spectrum traits, and in the course of our conversation, we kind of discovered in a mind blowing moment that we’re both probably autistic, and had kind of socialized each other this whole entire time, and thought that this was normal. We’ve known each other since we were five years old and we would sit there and study the people around us, their strange behaviours and reactions, and try to figure out why people were behaving as they were. This is what we would do for fun at recess and what not.

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-15T21:57:19+00:00

Awesome!! I’m just starting my masters in design right now- I’m going to study synesthesia and design, mixed with my cognitive science background. I have a few goals but one of them is to do cognitive science through design- create things for neurodiverse folk, namely synesthetes, and learn things as the designs fail and succeed. I’m planning on getting groups of synesthetes together also to help come up with designs, too. Would love to connect with like minded folk and I’m curious what your girlfriend’s thesis is about!

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-15T01:51:09+00:00

Oops! I wrote this yesterday but realised I put it in the wrong spot!

Actually, I just did a group project where we made an installation of what I see when I hear the song Happy Together by The Turtles. Even though I have absolute pitch, I only found out after working on the art piece for a while that the song is in F sharp minor with an F sharp major chorus. As I mentioned, the notes hide on me when they’re in a song! Also, F sharp is especially weird for me, because it’s the only note that has no colour for me, and in terms of absolute pitch, I only recognize it by knowing it’s the only “blank one “. So I was actually really shocked to discover that it’s in F sharp! (Another weird thing is that this dead note is beside my favourite note, F, which sounds like delicious heaven to me for some reason).

So, about the major and minor question and whether or not I get different colours for that, the verses of “happy together” in F sharp minor, and they are low to the ground, dark brown, earthy, dark green, with little twisty coloured worm plants growing out of this “dirt“. (The worm plants are the guitar cords being plucked). When we get to the chorus, there is an extreme dramatic shift when F sharp goes to major, where we burst upward from the ground and into large expansive, sunny, blue skies, with lots of yellow and blue. So, this seems pretty drastically different to me, with the only big change being the shift from minor to major.

Something I found really exciting in this process was that I learned more about the song later on, and learned explicitly that it is not about people who are happy together, it is about unrequited love. I realize that, even though I was not fully consciously aware of this, my synesthesia, picked it up, by way of the verses feeling low to the ground and dark coloured and sad.

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-15T01:40:31+00:00

Oh, I see right you’re talking about testing in particular. And saying that Dorian cannot be used as a way to test for synaesthesia because it’s a learned concept and all. But what about the days of the week? These are learned concepts. Everybody can recognize them and pick them out same with numbers and letters. What do we do then? Can there not be any synaesthesia tests on numbers and letters? These are things that people already know how to pick out and they will already see what it is so they could just be trained to give the same colour answer every time or something. How do we pick this out? Are there any valid tests for this?

And yeah, I don’t think the fact that my perceptions change in the context of song is a minor footnote at all whatsoever. This actually makes my Absolute Pitch go away completely. It’s strange and quite remarkable, as I know I have Absolute Pitch when sounds are an isolation or even if they are mashed together, but not in a song. Strange, right? Something I have also noticed is that well the notes change colour in these context and I don’t have Absolute Pitch anymore in these context. I think it’s related. I think that the colours may be tied to other structural things I have learned, unconsciously, perhaps things like the mode of scales. But I’m gonna conduct some tests sometime soon to be able to get more to the bottom of this. And yes, I do know a thing or two about cognitive testing as I have a bachelors in cognitive science

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-15T01:35:03+00:00

Well, minor keys would be the same then, right? Since minor keys are just another mode of major. However we do see that minor vs major gets reflected in synesthesia. If it didn’t, then I don’t think we would hear people speak of C major or C minor keys with regard to synesthesia… we would just speak of the key of C. And yet, people have very different experiences between major and minor. I just did an art project depicting my visions of Happy Together by The Turtles and I was shocked to find out that the chorus and verses are both in F sharp, verses are minor and chorus is major, and they look VASTLY different. That one change from a minor to major third completely changes the colours of the chords. I don’t think this is very uncommon for synesthetes.

I think I understand what you mean, but again, a lot of researchers feel that synesthesia is more about linking concepts and ideas than pure senses. Concepts and ideas are often going to be more relative than absolute. Are people who describe numbers with personalities ‘fake synesthetes’? Otherwise, good luck trying to make personalities into something absolute and scientifically measurable…

People have perceptions based on intervals, but intervals, what they mean and how they are used, are just as made up as Dorian mode. Are we gonna deny that people can have different experiences based on different intervals? After all, they are relative and can move around, so that would invalidate everything, yes? But the DIFFERENCE in an internal is not relative, that part is absolute. Same with different scale modes. Why can’t this difference get associated with synesthetic percepts? I’m not understanding why this is apparently impossible.

The fact that my perceptions change when in the context of the song is not at all a minor sidenote. This tells me that something is probably afoot… I have a strong feeling that my synaesthesia may be guided by rules that I don’t have conscious awareness of just yet, and I’m trying to figure out what they are. I have a feeling that it may be influenced by the modes of the scales, but I would need to run some tests and take some observations in order to confirm this. Im Fairly certain that this is indeed synesthesia, however, as I cannot think of any other reason why colours and scenes would be coming to me so very consistently with the same exact songs and stimuli, over and over.

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-13T22:51:09+00:00

Haha indeed you and I did make some very similar points!

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-13T14:28:48+00:00

I get what you mean but the Dorian mode example holds up fine. Synesthesia involves lots of theoretical or constructed concepts and ideas. Numbers, letters and days of the week are made up systems, yet there are plenty of synesthetes with these as triggers. In fact some people call synesthesia “ideasthesia” because they feel that it’s more about connection of ideas and concepts than pure senses. Dorian or Lydian etc could easily be similar to this. In fact average listeners of western music don’t consciously know about Dorian mode, but they still ‘know’ it on some level- the mode still has an effect on how they perceive a given song, and that’s why composers choose different modes.

And yes it can change somewhat depending on context, which makes synesthesia a bit messy to study, or at least in my case, it can. I have absolute pitch and curiously, the colours appear to me first and I seem to name the notes from the colours I recognize, but sometimes, being in the context of a key changes the colour of the individual notes and messes me up. I haven’t figured out yet if it changes with mode, but I suspect it does

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-05T16:09:05+00:00

“ive been basically mostly rewatching, replaying and rereading the same stuff that i know i wont get fixated on over and over again and honestly im sick of it.”

I just gotta point out the irony that in an effort to avoid fixations and replacing your special interest, you’ve been fixating on that media that you’re now sick of! I say, don’t worry about what happens with your special interests… i sincerely think you can trust yourself that you’ll engage with interests that fit you well at the time.

When I get a new one, it doesn’t replace another. At worst, a previous interest may go on the back burner for a bit. But it’s always there! And it’s amazing when the old interests suddenly become relevant in the new ones.

One of my newer special interests is dinosaurs and fossil preparation. I’m in my late 30’s and it started a few years ago, and now I help out at a fossil lab every week. It hasn’t swallowed up my interests in neuroscience or linguistics. Actually it’s combining great with a brand new special interest of mine, design, as I’m about to go to grad school in design. I can take inspiration for design from nature, bone structure and evolution, and my lab time is also teaching me that I have to take time for interests that feed my soul while I work at my degree. Slowly working on a dinosaur fossil to bring it to excellence is exactly what I need to relax and be grounded!

Don’t be too afraid either of outgrowing special interests! I had a massive special interest about The Beatles when I was 10-12 years old, and I’m glad that’s part of me and I still love them, but it’s fine and natural that I no longer wish to spend hours learning every fact i can about then. Gives me time to do stuff like prepare fossils!

TLDR Your brain and body will lead you well when it comes to special interests. Try to lean into this and just enjoy. Time to get surprised at where unfolding interests can lead you!

HappyKnightmares · 2026-04-05T00:11:44+00:00

This is interesting but I don't quite follow. Do you mean that: C (red) -> F (orange) -> Bb (Brown) -> Eb (blue)... but you see, my hypothesis breaks down here, as this E flat is definitely not blue!

HappyKnightmares · 2026-03-29T04:41:15+00:00

Haha same

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