<p>@bigtrees- Having extra time on tests is a normal accommodation made not just for Asperger’s students, but students with a wide array of learning disabilities, such as people with dyslexia. I think it’s easy to criticize if you don’t have to struggle with it/don’t know anyone who struggles with it, but I think it shows a callous disregard for the needs of others who are not as fortunate as yourself to be born healthy and able to learn without accommodation. I don’t know who these “Some people” are that you talk about, that are having people call their kids to tell them to get up and go to bed, but I strongly suspect that that’s just your own personal bias and ignorance without real placement in fact. </p>
<p>And people such as yourself, who don’t understand what Asperger’s is and tend to leap to outlandish conclusions are exactly the reason why you need disability office advocates to discuss with professors what it is and isn’t and what you need and don’t need. It’s as much to make sure kids aren’t gaming the system as it is to protect them from general ignorance.</p>