New Academic Accommodation: You Are So Ugly, People Cannot Look at You in Lecture

By Rachel Stern | Photo by Sadie Shelkey

I have ADHD. Thus, I had to go to the disability office to get my extended test-taking time. My meeting went as usual, I got my extra time. 

BUT!

Just as I was hanging up the Zoom, the disability office woman (who had a fucked up uneven bleach blonde bob) made a HORRIFYING statement. 

“We actually want to offer you another accommodation before you leave! Your classmates find it distracting to look at you since you have such a…. Unique… look, so we would like to offer you a private test-taking room and private class time permanently.” 

THEY WANT ME TO DO EVERYTHING IN A ROOM ALONE?!?!?!? 

Naturally, I decline the offer, but I am told I do not have a choice. It is for the “sake of the other students.”

I turned to Reddit: “accommodation for being ugly /reddit.” It turns out that there is a small minority of BU students struggling with this issue. I scroll through images of people also getting offered this accommodation and break out into tears.

DO I LOOK LIKE THEM?!?!?! 

This is my letter of resignation from society. I can not show my face until I have a complete makeover. I can not be seen knowing that I am so hideous it makes others uncomfortable. Please send over a beautician to do charity work for me.