Students with Disabilities and Greek life acceptance and access

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I'm always interested in Greek issues involving disabled people because I am disabled. I have CP and walk with crutches. Two of my close friends from undergrad are also disabled Greek women. One of them is legally blind and a DZ, and the other is in a wheelchair and a Chi Omega.

The article says things about houses not being accessible. I can't speak for all schools, but I know we all lived in our sorority houses at one point in undergrad and everything was made fully accessible for us. I believe Chi Omega even remodeled their first floor bedroom to accommodate my friend. I think that if a chapter really wants to have you as a sister, they will make the neccessary accommodations to the house so that you can live-in and have the full experience. I know that my Greek experience was in no way limited by my disability because everything was made accessible for me to participate in it.

There are alot of disabled people who live in "pity party" land, where they feel sorry for themselves, and everything they don't get accepted into, they blame it on the fact that they are disabled. This usually stems from rejections they may have experienced where their disability WAS a factor. So they transfer that to every rejection they get.

No one knows for sure why she was cut, but I'm sure it never occured to her that there may have been other reasons (like her grades, personality, etc) because she is probably most comfortable with falling back on "oh they cut me because I'm in a wheelchair."