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I'm surprised it's taken so long for academia to catch up, militaries have figured out decades ago that these "disabilities" are just people who are good at dif
by overstay8930 3y ago
I'm surprised it's taken so long for academia to catch up, militaries have figured out decades ago that these "disabilities" are just people who are good at different things and are assigned tasks that they can do much better than the average person.
It is no coincidence that people with ADHD are drawn to certain fields, for example.
- rocqua 3y agoDo you have any such examples? Only thing I know of in a military context is colorblind people being better at defeating camouflage, and I believe that isn't actually used in practice.
- overstay8930 3y agoIsrael Defense Forces is probably the best example (they were the first to put it in practice publicly): https://www.businessinsider.com/army-autistic-people-israel-idf-calling-up-military-conscription-2023-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/army-autistic-people-israel-... You can see hits of it through Five Eyes, cybersecurity is hot if you are autistic as well: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gchq-jobs-recruitment-intelligence-spy-jeremy-fleming-dyslexia-disability-neurodiversity-a9163996.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gchq-jobs-re... https://hbr.org/2017/12/why-the-australian-defence-organization-is-recruiting-cyber-analysts-on-the-autism-spectrum https://hbr.org/2017/12/why-the-australian-defence-organizat...