Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl...
by JohnBooty on Sunday February 14, 2016 @02:13AM
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Yeah, there's definitely a stigma. Often an unfair one. You are correct.
That does not conflict with anything I said. A mental health diagnosis does not generally mean that a person is dangerous, unemployable, or disabled.
A negative reaction of others to a diagnosis, based on fear and ignorance, is a big problem that we need to address. But those erroneous reactions don't change the intrinsic meaning of a diagnosis.
Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl...
by DanBC on Friday February 12, 2016 @12:34PM
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GCHQ have made a point of recruiting people with autism spectrum diagnoses.
There's plenty of people with severe mental illness who have security clearances.
Re:For gifted children, being intelligent can have dark impl...
by lutusp on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:08PM
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> There's plenty of people with severe mental illness who have security clearances.
Yes, but only if they lie or waffle in their applications, because mental illness is specifically discussed as a reason to deny clearance.
http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/security-clearance-jobs...
Nonsense. Try getting a top security clearance if you have a mental illness diagnosis. Try getting certain kinds of insurance, or preferential treatment in many professions, or any number of other examples in modern society -- a mental illness diagnosis is a burden for a lifetime. The fact that the "illness" may have resulted from a fantasy like recovered memory therapy or be based on a make-believe ailment like Asperger's or homosexuality, doesn't matter -- same burden, same stigma.