AITA for reporting my professor for refusing to accommodate my disability?
The user, a 21-year-old Canadian university student majoring in psychology, has a documented disability that requires accommodations, such as online a*signment submission and recorded lectures, to maintain her high academic standing. When the user submitted the necessary paperwork to her elective course professor, Dr.
X (70sM), he immediately dismissed the accommodations, stating he did not believe in "special treatment." After initial exchanges where the professor was dismissive and suggested she was using her disability as a crutch, the conflict escalated when Dr.
X penalized her for submitting a major a*signment online while hospitalized, despite her approved accommodations.
The user is now questioning whether reporting the professor to the university's disability office was an overreaction, especially as some cla*smates suggest she should have simply accepted the situation since she is still pa*sing the elective course.
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The user finds herself in a difficult position, having to defend legally required academic accommodations against a professor who actively rejected them and has now accused her of being ent*tled after she escalated the issue to the administration.
The central conflict is whether the user was justified in formally reporting the discrimination to protect her legally mandated rights, or if she should have tolerated the mistreatment because the course was only an elective and she was technically still pa*sing.
Should the right to necessary accommodations supersede the desire to avoid conflict with a dismissive instructor?
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