Would you work with a special needs person?

[Anonymous]

Yes!

No!

[jennifer_bloom]

I would try my best to be nice to them and like them. I've met disabled people that are more intelligent than your average STEM professor and I've met disabled people that are less intelligent than your average 4 year old child, so there is huge variability in people with disabilities.

Some disabled people are more intelligent than your average non disabled person because their disability in one category forces them to compensate in by excelling in other categories of intelligence. I know 2 disabled people with near genius I. Q. s in some categories of intelligence cause their brain was looking for ways to compensate for their lost ability by making them excel in other categories of intelligence.

[Spongebobssocks]

Yes if it was minor. I work for a person with special needs but thats different. Working with someone as long as its minor and doesn't affect their work then sure

[WilliamPamer446]

I am a "special needs" person

and no I would not do it "proffesionaly or officaly in a regular kinda job because then I gotta work for other people who are gonna tell me how to do it and they probably work for somebody else and they get it wrong and probably won't listen to me and ill get frustrated

but I would help one

[exitseven]

I worked at a college that had a pretty well known program for special needs students. We had a few of them working in the IT dept. I thought they did a good job and I liked working with them. Most seemed anxious to learn.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[OfMiceandMen]

I have in the past. Taught three kids to swim as the parents wanted to be sure they were safe and comfortable around the pool.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I'm pretty sure half the people I work with are some kind of special needs

[artgorgeous]

Yes. In terms of being a babysitter. If they pay nice amounts. But helping them doing their job - no, thank you.

[Anonymous]

A special needs person could never perform the functions of my job and would never be in a position to work with me. However if I had a stupid job that anybody could do then sure I'd work the a special needs person perfectly fine.

[Spongebobssocks]

You clearly have no idea what special needs mean. A person with special needs can simple have light ADHD and function normally in society without any medicine. It depends on the diagnoses and the extant to it.

[Opinion Owner]

@Spongebobssocks The picture is clearly a highly disabled person. Also it is against the law for someone to do my job while on ADHD medication.

[Spongebobssocks]

yes and I said people can be diagnosed with ADHD without needing medicine and still live a normal life.. same with other diagnoses

[DarkLegacy]

People with special needs are not stupid, you are. What do you mean by stupid job

[Spongebobssocks]

@DarkLegacy yup he sure has limited knowledge:)

[DarkLegacy]

@Spongebobssocks Perhaps that is why he felt the need to go anon so as not to embarrass himself

[Spongebobssocks]

@DarkLegacy yup probblaby why lol😂

[Anonymous]

If I don't need to baby them or if they aren't super rude or something really annoying behavior wise then It would be fine

[RingOfFire]

Sure, why not? I have hired a few in my career and never met one who I didn't like.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

I wouldn't even date one, especially not a downie.

[Twalli]

They could be a colleague, but I wouldn't work with them as a counselor or some such.

[Iron_Man]

I have before Special Olympics