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The author, surveying the forest and deciding navigation while pondering how to provoke a shift in attitudes towards disabled students on parent and educator sides that would eliminate learned helplessness, encourage self-advocacy and self-confidence through autonomy and understanding of real-world situations.  Winter Cevik  is a small, unusually vocal hen in her mid-thirties. In her spare time, she enjoys laying eggs (usually 500 words or fewer), writing IEPs, and offending neighborhood wildlife.   T wo perspectives plague special education. They’re twin roads paved with good intentions, and fail for the same reason: they reduce a disabled individual’s worth to how they make us feel . We do this with everything, of course, caring about or disliking others, ourselves, even objects, based on personal utility and emotional payoff. It’s a reflex old as language, but when we’re talking about it governing how we decide the futures of other human beings, it merits a closer lo...