The fault was mine, in not disclosing the disability and asking for accommodations.
In the worst-case scenario, employers could be responsible for much higher medical costs if their workers were afraid to ask for accommodations and instead continued doing work that endangered their pregnancies.
Part of the problem may be that most women (and men) don't feel as if they have enough leverage to ask for accommodations, says Anne Ladky, the executive director of Women Employed, an advocacy group for low-income women in Chicago.
In both of these scenarios, increasing workplace accommodations (either by encouraging workers to ask for accommodations, encouraging employers provide accommodations, or providing accommodations directly to workers through programs such as VR) would increase employment for people with disabilities.
However, in this framework, workers who need but do not ask for accommodations or those whose employers do not comply with their request will not receive accommodations and likely leave their job due to the workplace no being accessible.
When I finally went to the office, I had to ask the director of ODS to sit with me while I filled out a form, asking for accommodations for more times on assignments, and wrote OCD under the word "Disability" with my hand shaking.
There's nothing wrong with asking for accommodations to help you do well in class.
There is no shame in things that come along with disabilities, either: therapy, IEPs, asking for accommodations, etc.
You have the right to ask for accommodations, stim in public, and do what you need to do in order to function.
