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With very few exceptions every school accommodation I’ve heard of is something that every student should have access to, diagnosis or not.
One of the most common accommodations is extra time on tests. Time limits on tests should not exist. Most tests are designed in a way that the average student will have plenty of time leftover, and anyone who needs more time should be allowed that time.
If disability accommodations help you, you should have them. Full stop. If you don’t need them, you won’t find them helpful in the first place. Extra time on tests isn’t helpful to someone who completes them on time.
I've been in so many places over my educational years where all they could bloody give me was extra time on tests and assessments, which never fucking helped, because I'm shit at a lot of things but I am a good test taker. What I found the most helpful was when I could have a quick test during standard school hours instead of a stupid take home project that ate through days worth of my limited decompression time, and cost me spoons I simply didn't have after spending every last one on getting through the school day and the bus ride! But if I said I didn't need extra time on tests, I also didn't get whatever pitiful other scraps of help they could offer.
Same. If anything, I hyperfocus like a machine and get my tests done in one third of the time. I thrive when there's pressure.
But I would have become a biologist had I been given accomodation on learning things by heart, like hundreds of species names. It's the sort of information that just runs through me as my brain won't hold on to it for more than an hour. I've deviced all sorts of coping mechanisms for this like rehearsing key points of a test just minutes before so I can enter some of these factoids into my answers that otherwise clearly show I've understood and can apply the information very well, I just struggle with the jargon, terms, dates etc.
Also I do need more time in preparing for tests, I need to fully understand a thing before I can give answers on it. I can't just read stuff and parrot it in a test, because it won't be there in my head without an understanding of the whole. This is why I get called a perfectionist, but getting there is actually pretty taxing every time. I can't just wing it.