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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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  • i tried to join the navy.... now im not diagnosed, but on the interview they pry deeply into your life and want to know you and how you live.... they rejected me because i dont go out and dont have a social life or any friends. they found it suspicious. they are allowed to discriminate against anyone who may be autistic.... because in war a person with communication issues can get his entire team killed, so they get a exception and pass to reject people they even suspect of being mentally unwell in any way.

  • in reply to Caelus
    Caelus said:
    they rejected me because i dont go out and dont have a social life or any friends.

    You're going to be stuck on a boat in the middle of the sea for weeks at a time - if you 'don't do friends', they are doing you a favour by not subjecting you to that living hell of being surrounded by a few hundred 'highly sociable' NTs with no escape.  Smiley.

  • in reply to Plastic

    id have thought id be suitable given right before the interview in the recruitment room they had adverts that they are looking for unsociable people for their unsociable submarine crews.... funny, their interviewer totally doesnt know what they are looking for despite that advert playing on a tv in their work place on loop all day long that says that want unsociable people lol it seems to me they have already recruited unsuitable people as they seem to have missed that detail, and missing a detail like that surely makes them unfit for their position.

  • in reply to Caelus

    What they are telling you is they want robust people who can get on and be happy with their 'new' close family on the boat.

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