burrito test

English

Noun

burrito test

  1. (disability advocacy) A test used to determine whether a given place is an institution: if a resident is not allowed to get up in the night as they please and microwave themselves a burrito, it is an institution.
    I lived in a room and board that failed the burrito test.
    • 2016 September 10, The burrito test | Asperger's & Autism Community - Wrong Planet:
      I'm happy to say the room and board my therapist helped me find and I'm staying at DOES pass the burrito test.
    • 2020 July 28, Advocating in Plain Language, with Sara Luterman - Different Brains:
      If the answer is no, then the setting is institutional, and a lot of group homes do not pass the burrito test. So, like you have people who ...
    • 2021 March 17, fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton, “The "Burrito Test"”, in Reddit[1] (forum), archived from the original on 22 March 2021:
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    • 2021 April 8, independencechick, “A Burrito is Not A Crime Against Humanity”, in WordPress[2] (blog), archived from the original on 9 April 2021:
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