Does having epilepsy benefit a first-year college applicant in the admission process?

Re: Does having epilepsy benefit a first-year college

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Wed, 2011-02-02 - 02:49

Hi SmallSock, While I believe I disagree with Justice Clarence Thomas involving the absence of the need for, versus the need for, and enforcement of, anti-discrimination laws and universal rights, many of his writings on Affirmative Action Programs, entertain similar issues I'm concerned with, involving Reasonable Accommodation regarding epilepsy. With maybe too blunt hypotheticals, I would be tempted to rewrite the sentence "Now I knew what a law degree from Yale was worth when it bore the taint of racial preference. I was humiliated—and desperate," to the issue "Now I knew what a law degree from Yale was worth when it bore the taint of accommodation with epilepsy. My career was blocked, and I sought to protect my rights under the Rehabilitation Act." Source of cited sentence at: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3667079&page=1 http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421827466 As fate would have it, I believe Justice Clarence Thomas was the eighth Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, named by President Ronald Reagan, until March 08, 1990, when he was appointed as a U.S. Court Appeals Judge. Some of my earliest discrimination complaints with federal employers reached points of review with the EEOC in the late 80's, after lengthy "administrative reviews" within the agencies of the employers. My claims were simple, I had perfect (the highest) employment test scores, and the impairments from my epilepsy were contorted by the employers to invalidate and discard effective usage of the test scores, to illegally deny me employment. The EEOC's response in simple English was "You think your test scores should be further bumped up, just because your attempts to hide your poor performance behind your epilepsy didn't work out, and you're disgruntled by it?? That wouldn't be fair to applicants who obtained their test scores with honest effort!!! You should just be more motivated to become qualified for employment." I took the EEOC's summarized opinion, as that they were telling me I would have to do better than 100% perfect (which is impossible for anyone, unless the claim is like political elections, where the winner gets 120 of the 100 possible votes), and that individuals with epilepsy were regarded as necessarily unqualified, because of, at least, epilepsy causing a regarded intense lack of motivation, that over-shadows all contrary factual evidence. Elements of "disgruntled" and "honest" returned as the cases were returned by the EEOC for "Final Agency Action", and notification of the right to file suits in federal district court. Well, the Final Agency Action with the U.S. Department of Treasury could be best summarized as blackmail by government thugs over my neurological speech impediments in grade school, over being attacked in high school during a seizure, over the basis of a scholarship to UNM awarded with a GED and physical impairments, and over the results of the MMPI and temporal lobe epilepsy in psychology classes at SJSU. As the IRS had agents already telling me that I was dealing with the American Gestapo, and they had interrogated me for my deposition to my EEOC complaint for a few hours while I was locked in a utility closet under the stairs, in the stairwell of the golden enameled IRS building in downtown San Jose, I took their threat that they were going to prosecute me for everything from illegal scholarships to fraudulent claims of being otherwise qualified while claiming disability, or at their whim, vice-versa, seriously, even though I knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had previously ruled that any law enforcement officers may prevaricate about anything with complete impunity, I had thought that that didn't extend to sworn affidavits and testimony in court. (In other Supreme Court cases, the Justices "joke" about the inherent contradictions in the laws with disabled people). Over the Department of Treasury flak over my records, I became a "non-person" of record at my university, and that was the end of academics for me. As many people have rudely discovered, their internet presence can be easily checked by employers, admission offices, etc. for just about everything (lawsuits, scholarships, accidents, credit, etc.), and the government and courts still have not diligently pursued much of anything beyond rare cases under the ADAAA, or anything else, while accentuating the position that the results of what Justice Thomas expressed desires of prevention by denial of basis of action, are to be sufferred with mere toleration instead of active enforcement of prevention and correction. On M.I.T.'s outdated website, the listing of their policy of dealing with accommodations with impairments already appears to violate the ADAAA with prohibited administrative procedures of "instances" versus pre-determined documentations. Most of the newsworthy stories about such with epilepsy, occur with denial of services, to arrest, and forceful removal, over epilepsy assistance dogs: http://epstorm.blogspot.com/2009/07/discrimination-man-with-seizure-alert.html http://epstorm.blogspot.com/2010/09/discrimination-texasteen-threatened.html Tadzio http://ehrweb.aaas.org/PDF/Disabil.pdf http://mit.edu/uaap/sds/students/grievance.html