Aspergers & The Territorial Army?

My son has just told me he has been turned down from joining the TA because he has Aspergers, surely this isn't legal?

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  • aye, it is legal, the military have a exception and allownace to discriminate based on mental things or disabilities.... i got rejected from the navy, im not even diagnosed with anything, just in the interview they pry into your life and they saw that i have no social life and so on and found it suspicious they said... so i guess they even suspected something along the lines of asd and they are allowed to reject for that, they need their troops to be social as communication is key in the armed forces.

  • once you sign on the dotted line and especially when you sign the Official Secrets Act you under a completely different set of laws. 

  • aye, and once they rejected me they tossed away any chance in hell they can hope to press me into their armies if ww3 breaks out any time soon lol i wouldnt fight for them in war time if they refused to give me a place in peace time... id refuse to be used like that, disrespectful of them to reject you a job in peace but expect you to be forced to join in war. they can feck right off, im more likely to join the other side now than theirs given the other side havent yet had a chance to reject me and make me feel unwanted in society lol

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  • aye, and once they rejected me they tossed away any chance in hell they can hope to press me into their armies if ww3 breaks out any time soon lol i wouldnt fight for them in war time if they refused to give me a place in peace time... id refuse to be used like that, disrespectful of them to reject you a job in peace but expect you to be forced to join in war. they can feck right off, im more likely to join the other side now than theirs given the other side havent yet had a chance to reject me and make me feel unwanted in society lol

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