• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    9 hours ago

    You mean the serial adulterer who can’t read and whose entire life has been sponsored by a Getty oil heir isn’t a good candidate for president of the United States? Shocked.

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      8 hours ago

      I thought his inability to read was because of ADHD. We back to hatin on disabilities again?

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        6 hours ago

        I mean, in addition to what everyone else said, disabilities can in fact disqualify you from being a good president.

        If someone is non-verbally autistic with an ID diagnosis, it’s not ableist to say they aren’t a good candidate to be president.

        Obviously this is a spectrum, and ADHD shouldn’t be, on its face, disqualifying. But if it’s so bad you’re literally illiterate, then it’s no ableist to say that makes you a bad candidate to be president.

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        Eh… Context is important. I think if he had overcome his disability and managed to power through it to achieve a decent education that would actually be a plus.

        Instead he has a bachelor’s from an expensive private school where he “studied” abroad. I think it’s just indicative of his history of being able to rely on connections and money to achieve his position in life. And it makes me doubt that he is educated enough or willing to work hard enough to learn all the things someone should know to be president of the United States.

        As someone who has a neurodevelopmental disorder, my problem isn’t that he has a learning disability. It’s that he’s a rich fuck boy with a learning disability, which is a powerful combo. I know if I had a friend who just gifted me multi-million dollar businesses that allowed me to do whatever I wanted…I would be an idiotic terror.

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          I tutor, and I’ve ran into lots of rich boys with disabilities who learn that they can get their parents to pay for their homework to be done for them (or the mom does it herself…). Fired a client because he had too much of a “reading disability” to do the required reading for the paper we were writing - previous tutors would write his papers for him!

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            5 hours ago

            Yep. I have a position at a teaching hospital where we teach residents from all over the country. The ones from pay to play private schools are always subpar both in their education and especially in people skills. Most of them drop, or pivot to administration positions where they don’t have to associate with everyday people.

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        7 hours ago

        ADHD has no impact on reading ability.

        If he has reading problems, it’s due to something else.