Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future

To be clear, the evidence here is that one student tweeted and that many more Stanford students have a registered disability (which doesn't not even mean that they are receiving accommodations) than students at community colleges.

For me to buy this moral panic I need to see more compelling evidence. Can we see the students that clearly are getting undeserved accommodations? That is the actual thing people are worried about. But zero of the articles whinging about this can point to data here.

Could it be, I dunno, that rich students are vastly more likely to have access to the medical system that can identify and document various things like ADHD?

> The gaming doesn’t stop at disability. Stanford requires undergrads to purchase an $7,944 annual meal plan—unless they claim a religious dietary restriction the cafeteria can’t accommodate.

Isn’t the mandatory meal plan also a game by the university? A really frustrating trend I’ve seen more companies do nowadays is to tack on mandatory charges for crap that I don’t need or want, and it’s happening everywhere.

If declaring a disability is what it takes to get out of a compulsory meal charge, then it’s worth examining why the school feels compelled to make the meal plan mandatory in the first place.

It’s not just students or consumers playing a game, companies (or universities in this case) are playing one too, and it’s called: how to get as much money out of our customers as possible.

Related:

Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150715

Accomodation Nation

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/elite-universit...