Marknis wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Marknis wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
the army provided me a change of scenery, for better or worse, I wonder if the OP has considered trying it.
I never did. I was actually discouraged from considering it.
WHO discouraged you? and WHY?
Members of my mother's side of the family and some others for reasons like "The military is a meat grinder.", "George Bush is a war monger.", and that I was "too soft" for service. I've also read that bootcamp is all about crushing out individuality and turning one into a robot.
if I could not be crushed by uncle sugar [what we called the army], then I am confident that you would not be crushed as well. oh sure, the drills in basic training will do their best to reduce you to hamburger, but they have feet of clay as well. the people who fought against them were the first ones out the door, thanks to those troublemakers, the drills mostly ignored me [other than making me do pushups until my arms were shot and screaming at me until I was deaf] and allowed me to pass when I most certainly should have failed within the first few weeks as I am about as military as a petunia. as long as you do what they order, even if you phuq up royally in the process they can't bust you for insubordination and chapter you. they want their money's worth out of you so they will ride your @$$ you until you pass go. I do not believe you are "too soft" for military service, they will toughen you up just as they did me. chances are they will make you very angry, as they did me. anger is cleansing, it chases out lots of other ill humors that bedeviled me at the time. I am still just as non-conformist as I was before, just as individual, and you will turn out the same as well. we aspies are tougher than we think we are.
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so I would not listen 100% to the people telling you these things they've told you.
p.s., at the time [1980s] autism wasn't as well-known stateside as it is now, so although my shrink said I was autistic he signed a psych waiver for me saying I would withstand military service, nowadays your luck may be different, it depends on your exact Dx.