Reply #13: I know exactly what you mean;

[liberalhistorian]

my son has Asperger's Syndrome, a type of high-functioning autism, and, while I've always hated that he has to deal with it, knowing how it affects him, it also just might keep him out of the Perpetual War Machine. And there's a part of me that's secretly glad he has it because of that, that's really kinda sick, isn't it?

OTOH, they're lowering standards and taking recruits they normally wouldn't have accepted, and there have even been reports of autistic recruits being signed up even when the recruiter knows of the condition, so who knows, anymore?