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> I think there's a non-malicious explanation for a percentage of this.

What on earth is a "malicious" explanation of this?

>>MangoT+(OP)
That people know they do not actually need/qualify for accommodations, but misrepresent themselves in order to get them?

>>MangoT+(OP)
One example of a malicious explanation would be: people are lying about having a disability to get some sort of benefits they don’t need, likely at the expense of someone who does need those benefits.

>>jfindp+31
What they get is amphetamines, legally.

38% of stanford kids taking or selling drugs, legally, because they are rich kids: and the poor kids get jail time for buying it off them.

Go USA.

Wierd that no-one on this thread seems aware of it.

There are two standard treatments for adhd: met & dexies midnight runners.

>>MangoT+(OP)
Getting a diagnosis to get more time to complete tests. https://accommodations.collegeboard.org/how-accommodations-w...

>>MangoT+(OP)
I don't understand how yous can be ignorant of this. In the USofA you get advertised at continuously by drug companies.

Do you really think they spend that money advertising, and that you can then not buy the products?!?

Sure, you need a corrupt doctor. But the amount of advertising tells you exactly the amount of corrupt doctors that can act as drug dealers for you.

If someone is advertising something at you, it's because you can get it and you are potential market.

Not rocket science.

Somehow the whole country has collective blindness to this fact that is scarily obvious to anyone from outside the USofA that drops by.

Drugs adverts for prescription drugs should be illegal: because there is no legal justification for them.

>>teknop+H2
Taking the drugs legally, maybe; it is very much illegal to sell the kind of amphetamines used to treat ADHD. Ritalin, for instance, is a schedule II drug, and it is a felony to sell without a prescription.

>>MangoT+(OP)
Cheating is the malicious interpretation, same way steroids are considered cheating in other competitions. (college admission is a competition, there are fixed number of seats and you cheating to get a seat hurts someone else.)

>>teknop+j6
>If someone is advertising something at you, it's because you can get it and you are potential market.

>Not rocket science.

Yep. I see adverts for Psoriasis and so, of course, I developed Psoriasis although I never had it before I saw the adverts. I see adverts for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and, of course, then developed it because I am a "potential market."

Even better, I see adverts for tampons, sanitary pads and "feminine' deodorants. As such, I underwent gender reassignment surgery so I could then purchase said products because I'm a "potential market."

Yes, the above is satirical. And no, I don't purchase products because " they spend that money advertising"

If I show you an advert for brassieres, are you then forced to purchase them because of all the money spent on such adverts? Are you even slightly tempted to do so?

If I show you an advert for literal snake oil as a cure-all, are you then powerless to stop yourself from purchasing it?

I hate to break it to you, but we Americans aren't slaves to, or required to spend money based on, consumer advertising.

Heck, I don't drink Coca-Cola or Budweiser. If what you say were true, I'd literally be drowning in that garbage.

Please take your ridiculous stereotypes elsewhere.

Edit: Fixed typos.

>>teknop+H2
There are non-stimulant ADHD medications. Maybe they should try going on Intuniv instead.

(That one reduces anxiety a lot, which would be good for students, but it also kinda kills your sex drive.)

>>appare+G
Ok but such a person who thinks this way is definitionally in need of help; who would waste any brain wattage caring about this? Do they also need government subsidies to pay attention to their own lives?

>>teknop+j6
I just don't see any harm from taking these drugs. It hurts nobody, hence my skepticism of the "malicious" characterization.

>>jfindp+31
I mean who cares? This hurts nobody.

>>mrgold+1h
Right, but life is not a competition. Who cares who gets a prescription for ritalin?

>>danthe+Z4
Ok, but who cares? If you don't need accommodations, the extra time won't help you.

For instance: i qualify for such accommodations, but the extra time would not grant me a better score. Who cares?!

>>MangoT+Nd1
So you're saying it's some kind of mental handicap causing people to cheat the system to get benefits, therefore people who fake a handicap to get benefits actually deserve those benefits?