Reply #69: You may want to look up the definition of predjudice

[lumberjack_jeff]

Blacks and women were (and gays currently are) excluded from military service on exactly the basis you so clearly described.

You "don't care how able" anyone is, because the label makes it convenient for you to place limits on people. I find that more than a little sad.

The disorder isn't their true disability, you are.

Every person is an individual, and each should be allowed to contribute to the limits of their ability. Are their roles for which the guy in the article is ill-suited? Probably. Probably including the one which the recruiter signed him up for. Recruiters lie and decieve people to get recruits. This is not news - it should be fixed - but it's not news.

I have several friends with ASD. In the right role, I'd happily trust my life to them. Some of them have attention-to-detail that cannot be matched by a neurotypical person. I can see that this would be a good trait in an aviation mechanic, for instance.

Not every ASD person is rainman.