Accommodations
Recently I had two very different experiences around accommodations and imposter syndrome. In the first one, I was in a zoom training. I tend to have a really hard time keeping focused in zoom trainings. I have found that having the transcript going helps a lot. When the speaker is going too slow and I get bored and my brain wanders off, I can read back in the transcript and catch myself up. Zoom automatically has this available unless you turn it off, so it doesn't add any work for the people running the training. I went looking to turn the transcript on, and I didn't have access to do so, which means that they had turned this feature off. I asked if they could allow access to it. This led to 10 minutes of waiting while they tried to figure out whether they could turn it on from inside zoom (it's normally a feature linked to the account) or how to deal with this. Well before this was over, I both felt bad for wasting everyone's time and was also angry wi...