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Are the any legal restrictions for autistic people, other than not being able to join the army?

Dara

Can anyone help with this, please? By getting a diagnosis, am I opening myself up to having less legal rights? I know I won't be able to join the army, but are there any other things that I won't be allowed to do, or where someone in authority can assume I don't have the capacity to make my own decisions? 

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  • in reply to Untoward

    never worked out why ---- i have been in several armies and functioned fine in all before my diagnosis. I learnt to work and live with allsorts in terrible conditions which is the best thing about armies. 

    As far as I am concerned if you can get through the Basic training you should be allowed to stay.

    Many dont make it through basic training. 

    One guy shot the guy beside me through the leg ( accidental discharge ), he was out after he was attacked by the shot soldiers mates and almost kicked to death.

    Any serious mistakes especially on the firing range, or not following instructions  and you are out.

    Sleep deprivation is part of basic training that cracks many people.

    The basic training also includes being in a room full of CS gas with no gas mask and u have to find ( u cant see ) and put on your mask and stay there until the instructor in there can say you can leave --- feels like forever.  

  • in reply to Untoward

    I suspect that if you are obviously 'not normal' then you might be unpredictable when it comes to the crunch - in which case you endanger yourself and your comrades.

    I'd guess there's some very high functioning ASD people that have joined up and not been noticed - probably undiagnosed - and enjoying the rigidity and routine of the service life.