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Originally Posted by bookworm84
I'm not looking for sympathy on this forum.I am new to my college campus and I really haven't had a chance to see what other organizations are on the campus besides sororities.This is the kind of reaction that I was afraid that would happen.If you walked in my shoes,you would not be saying those mean,hurtful things to me.My disability is difficult enough trying to navigate my everyday life but if there are girls in sororities that act like this,then I don't want to be part of a system that will not accept people like myself because we are "different". I am slower in learning and my GPA is low because the college I transferred from,I didn't finish a class and that lowered my grade quite a bit.Before anyone goes judging people who are different like myself,trying being in my shoes for a day and you'll see how difficult it is to be social and find friends.I have had this problem my entire life and I am getting sick and tired of people telling to take a different avenue to improve my social skills.If you have a problem with me being "different",then that attitude needs to change.I will not be bullied by people who think that they have the right to tell me what else I can do to improve my social skills.That is what my parents are for and they are a lot less judgmental than you are.
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I have no problem with you being different. I have a huge problem with you saying that the sorority rush system needs to change because of it, and with you saying you want to use a sorority as a tool to improve your social skills (although I'm hoping you don't mean it quite like that, that is how it came out).
As another poster stated, for better or worse, much of formal sorority rush is based on first impressions formed very quickly. That's just the way it is. If you don't do well in that sort of environment, you are going to have problems in sorority rush - and there are lots of people who don't have Asperger's who also aren't great at first impressions that go through the same thing.
Like many posters said, the GPA thing is something sororities just aren't allowed to budge on. Even if the most perfect person in the world goes through rush, if the minimum required is 2.9 and she only has a 2.4, she won't receive a bid. Those rules can't be changed for you just because you have a disability.