Higher Ed

Just before my brain broke I started formal learning again. I didn't want to change the world, I just wanted to get a permanent position in a menial job so I had no stress, pay the bills and could read the books I actually like at home in my own time. After I broke my noodle I was going to drop out of higher ed altogether cos the material was so triggering and the institution is as trauma aware as Satan. The last tutorial I attended before receiving the only inheritance I ever got, a mental illness, a student showed a video of an indigenous persons life ending in full colour, audio and visual, the class clearly were unmoved by it, didn't do a thing to their blood pressure, and I left for the door with my DV history in my top pocket and psychosis waiting for me in the foyer. So I swapped degrees,so I could choose subjects without child maltreatment, knowing its a crummy degree but it is something. Now I've been told I'm probably not going to graduate because I am too slow and they have to uphold the integrity of the degree. In calculating the maximum time I am allowed to complete they didn't minus all the times I was in the honey moon suite

The most upsetting part of the whole process has been the chick in Disability. My Psychiatrist wrote a letter asking could I please have an attendance adjustment and complete my tutorials online after being in hospital for a 3rd of the year in 2019 and my world falling apart just that little bit more to really put the boot in......she said no its a face-to-face degree. And then we had a phone consult and she kept saying how 'lucky' I was because of Covid and if it wasn't for Covid there would be no online option at all and I would have had to drop out. I think she said lucky like 5 times. I told Dr Kindness this and I told my ClinPsych and they were appalled. I'm not responsible for Baby Boomer academics who are afraid online learning will lead to job losses, its not my preference to have a disability.

Have any other disabled forumites had similar experiences with higher ed and being too slow, and what did you do?

Corny