Why is it bipolar can join military but aspies can't?

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No one should look down on you just because you didn't serve in the military. Lots of people have objections to serving in the armed forces in any event.

You wouldn't necessarily enjoy the experience. I was exempted from the conscription which our country had enforced at the time I left school, and so was a friend of mine. I don't think either of us would have managed well had we been required to go.

I'm really critical of the whole hero-worship mindset I see associated with the military. But I'm definitely better off because of the investment other people made in me, and I really don't like the notion that a whole subsection of people who could really use the growing opportunity are barred from it.

Why would you want to join the army, OP?

Military life is harsh. And if you go to war, you'll be cannon fodder.

...So , you are saying that the barring of Aspergerians from the military (In general ? All five/six services ?) came in under people appointed by Obama ?
It was a policy put in by Obama choices for the military ?
Maybe so ~ I'd just like to hear the story . I really would be interested in hearing the story .


ote="Mongoose1"]

I sense a brow-beating in the making.

...How long ago did you know him ? Bluntly , did he become homeless and join the military for , indeed , somewhere to live ?
Was it a " reserves " join-up - which I think means a a " short " , year , year-and-a-half or so , enlistment (well , except back when the Iraq war wwas on , then it was more) ? Was he non-homeless before he was and then he enlisted ?

He works with me---but I actually think he didn't have a permanent home at the time he joined the military. He just left his wife.

He's in the Reserves now. I think he might be deployed to Afghanistan soon.

...IIRC , someone's job is protected if/while they join the military , so , when he did , his job at your org would have been protected...A part of me wonderes what might've been if if I'd joined the military of one kind or another (thinking more or wateer-oriented Navy or Coast Guard , or one Air Firce vet my age said that might've been good) , but of course , it's exponentionally far too late now Obviously , many people rise to/are made better by a military stint , but , at the same time , some people ~ and that's even apart from the nessecary war part ~ do not fit i well , or are preyed upon by other , bad apple , persons within the military .
My Aspie-ness = rather " sissy-ness/bookishness/sensitivity "/whatever , which turns some people off .
Someone could've done something bad to me .
Of course , people did bad things to me in the outside world , anyway ...........Perhaps , if I had known I was going to be homeless for so long , I'dve enlisted just so I could validly make the " HOME#LESS VET " claim , hah hah !



quote="kraftiekortie"]He works with me---but I actually think he didn't have a permanent home at the time he joined the military. He just left his wife.

He's in the Reserves now. I think he might be deployed to Afghanistan soon.[/quote]

Some people just can't make it in the military.

Many of these people do quite well in civilian life, though.

...I have lots to say about my life now , perhaps it should be in a line of my own , even if we're talking here .
On a certain level , it would've been nice to have the military thing in my past .
I have been homeless (or one step above/" recently "-at this moment not homeless , which never worked out and just meant a return to homelessness) continuously since middish-1996 .
1985-87 , too .