What Are The Benefits Of Privilege Privilege

Privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. I have a brother named Logan, who has Autism and is also diagnosed with Mild Mental Retardation. Growing up around him I realized that we are different. I do not mean in the aspect that we are different in gender but in our capabilities. We have different abilities which also leads to our different privileges in life.
Logan and I grew up with completely different backgrounds, Logan was adopted as a little boy. Whereas I was a natural born child. Furthermore, Logan and I are separated by five years. This meant that we were never in the same school, never in the same classes or groups at church, and we did not have the same "problems.", when it came to learning to drive and getting a job. Logan is in a group of people that will not get to experience these senses of minor successes. …show more content…
For Logan and me, even though we both have disabilities, we were afforded things in school that many people were not. As much as we are different, in school there was not much difference in the way that we were given accommodations. In the schools that I went to I have seen all kinds of children with different types of mental disabilities. There were accommodations that I got that were accommodations that he got. I think those accommodations that we both received are examples of different types of privilege. Accommodations that we got included things like having a test read to you or being able to test in a quiet area away from people, and having copies of study guides that were all filled in with the