Military Aspies?

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WTF? Why?

Yea getting kicked out because of aspergers?
That's discrimination.

Well, the US millitary has a law that people with mental disabilities aren't allowed to join or be drafted. And Aspergers counts as a mental disability.

It may seem unfair, but that's just how the army works. Sorry. =/

why'd i try to join? or why did they toss me out?
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Why did they toss you out?

because for one thing, 1 month into the training i just couldn't take it anymore, i was having major shut-downs and just didn't care about anything anymore.
& for another, apparently any kind of mental disorder or syndrome like that is something the military doesn't like. They'd have denied me outright the second i'd applied if i'd told them sooner rather than later. But i didn't say anything because i thought maybe i'd be able to take it and just pull through.
The military is all about teamwork. Aspergers apparently isn't very conducive to teamwork... or even being under all that pressure and stress apparently for that matter .

back in the stoned age when i was in the army, they knew something was the matter with me but the information about AS had not filtered through to the military medical establishment yet. but i was the only one of the guys who kept his nose clean and did what he was told, whereas the other guys were perpetual f-ups who were always skirting insubordination in the most creative and funny ways, yet they got the promotions and the accolades, because they were more intelligent than me and they instantly "got" things whereas i always had to struggle to learn anything new. under the new anti-AS regime, i would probably have gotten ash-canned in basic just because i was "different."

when i was in, there was this stoner of a GI whom the powers-that-be always failed utterly, at busting him on it. one day they did a drug-dog sweep of the barracks and the dog went crazy on this particular fella's wall locker, so they called him back to the barracks from his duty station, and made him unlock and open his wall locker for inspection, to try to find the dope the wildly barking drug indicated must be inside. well, he opened it and the first sergeant and CO tore that thing apart looking for the dope only to come out of it empty-handed. the stoner GI ended up matriculating back into civilianhood normally, and the next army guy in his room was rearranging the barracks room and in the process of moving the stoner ex-GI's wall locker around found a baggie with some grass left inside of it, taped on the back of the locker, which since it was against the wall previously, enabled stoner GI to hide his stash from the brassholes who were too unable to think outside of the [box] walllocker to go through the trouble to move it around to find the hidden pot.

What a great story! Good for him for getting away with it. I never heard the term brassholes before -

it was my experience that once a GI got some brass on his collar, that he or she became a brasshole.

was in, my learning disabilies became more apparent. I passed some hard courses, but applying the knowledge under pressures put on by seniors because of my strange beviours, funny as i'd done more than some of them, and they where telling me i wasn't up to it, even tho i'd been in the situations, and realy enjoyed them , that they where telling me i wasn't cappable of.

But this is typical everywhere, just discrimination, happened again in the following job, with a 'disabld charity' who needed scapegoats. But with the forces, they are exempt from most if not all disabled rights.

Grandfather was in the Korean War, and Cousin is currently in the (I think) National Guard.

My brothers might possibly get involved with the military, they're really into it. My little brother, 8, even had a freaking military-themed birthday party. Worse is, I think that since he may have AS, that this is an obsession. I really, really hope it's just a phase. For his sake (AS fitting into the military), at least.

Most of my family's really into the stuff but I don't get it. I've played Call of Duty a few times and kinda liked it, but... I'll never understand being a military fan. >_> My parents pressuring me to join the military for free college, since I really didn't want to get involved with them, literally drove me insane. Either way, with multiple mental disorders I'm not qualified anyways.

I know what you mean, I never bought into all the millitary hype like everyone in my school and was looked down on because of it. My Mom was never obsessed with getting me to try to join, but my Stepdad was before my Mom got smart and divourced his buttocks.

Speaking of which, that's another one who was in the millitary. He left for some reason though. It's kind of funny that I have no knowledge about the people in my family who joined the millitary other then the fact that "they joined". I guess because I just really never cared.

Spent 10 years in the Royal Navy, medically discharged due to injury in service.

My grandfather was in the air force during the Korean war, my great grandfather was in the military under Mussolini in fascist Italy, my other great great uncles fought for Nazi Germany, my great uncle was a tail gunner in the Pacific for the US, my other 2 uncles with the European front. That's about it now, some war's are justified.. but today's wars aren't. I'll fight for my country, not for corporations and wallstreet.