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Could the military help people with Autism?

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Something i have always wondered as an autistic person myself is what the effects of military training and discipline has on people with Autism. seeing that the military is all about order,structure and learning you the importance of working in a team it surely can help autistic people develop skills they can use to significantly be better at structuring and giving order to their own personal lives. and thus improve life quality.

I am not advocating for anyone to join the military. i am just curious how people here think if the military could be of any use in helping some people with autism get their life in order.

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  • I have difficulties with authority. I thoroughly hate beta-personalities having a leadership position. An alpha-personality I can accept, somebody who inspires, takes responsibility, takes the decision how it's going to be done, and also takes the fall when the results are not as expected. Beta-leaders are then blaming others. I've told my scrummaster at the previous job... we did some carting, and an Indian guy went slow, and he said: if I wouldn't have been stuck behind him, I would have won, and I told him: stop always blaming others for your failing, everybody was on the same circuit, and he blocked all of us. 

    Needless to say that the relationship was a bit on the down side.

    I read an article once on wolf-types, alpha, beta, omega, I guess I'm an omega, awkward, outside of the group, the jester, 

    I told my boss once, one that did have alpha-traits, that I expect her level of excellence from all my managers. Again something that was not really appreciated, you're not supposed to act like you are actually more important than your manager. It's not done. 

    In the army they would probably have to send me on recon-missions behind enemy lines, sas-stuff... 'me is half of the team', that's a motto they don't like in the infantry.

    I do have a soft spot for military stories. Like the SAS was formed, and they had some crappy equipment, so the officer gave the men a list of equipment and ordered them to go steal it from other divisions. The next day they were fully equiped. 

    I like Sabaton-music, and movies like full metal jacket and apocalypse now, or Das Boot and Stalingrad, the bleak movies...

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  • I have difficulties with authority. I thoroughly hate beta-personalities having a leadership position. An alpha-personality I can accept, somebody who inspires, takes responsibility, takes the decision how it's going to be done, and also takes the fall when the results are not as expected. Beta-leaders are then blaming others. I've told my scrummaster at the previous job... we did some carting, and an Indian guy went slow, and he said: if I wouldn't have been stuck behind him, I would have won, and I told him: stop always blaming others for your failing, everybody was on the same circuit, and he blocked all of us. 

    Needless to say that the relationship was a bit on the down side.

    I read an article once on wolf-types, alpha, beta, omega, I guess I'm an omega, awkward, outside of the group, the jester, 

    I told my boss once, one that did have alpha-traits, that I expect her level of excellence from all my managers. Again something that was not really appreciated, you're not supposed to act like you are actually more important than your manager. It's not done. 

    In the army they would probably have to send me on recon-missions behind enemy lines, sas-stuff... 'me is half of the team', that's a motto they don't like in the infantry.

    I do have a soft spot for military stories. Like the SAS was formed, and they had some crappy equipment, so the officer gave the men a list of equipment and ordered them to go steal it from other divisions. The next day they were fully equiped. 

    I like Sabaton-music, and movies like full metal jacket and apocalypse now, or Das Boot and Stalingrad, the bleak movies...

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