I'd be interested to know which militaries do allow this.

In the UK JSP 950 lists an autism diagnosis as an automatic disqualification, along with such bizarre things as double jointed knees.

That's true. I have Autism and can confirm this. Autism makes you sensetive to loud noises, light, taste and toutch and also pressure. that's also why we're not allowed in the army. It sounds bad bud I Think (I'm not very educated in this subject but) it's… well, I can understand their Point. I don't Think we're forbidden to become officer, doctor or map writer. I Think it's just being a Soldier that's the problem. Some people with Autism also have problems with instructions, like me so I wouldn't fit to this job at all. Though, we're good at fochusing at one thing at a time and also good at noticing details. We don't see a Forest as a forest. We see individial trees. If we really like one subject, we can get really good at it thank's to our good concentration. Our concentration depends on the mood and what we're doing of course, tho.

My opinion is that we should be allowed in the army if we want to.
(i just wrote this in one go, so there might be a lot of bad English)

@EUcomicartist in denmark people with autism get rejected too. reason is the sensetivity you mentioned. other reason are at people
with autism have trouble multitasking. autism tend to focus on subject/object at the time. it make them good to focused tasked. but army want people there can multitask, since in a crisis you have to keep your focus on more then one thing.

people with autism are not worse then regular people. our shortcomings and strengths are just allocated different. they maybe not the best candidate for military, but the strengths make them good choices for other jobs.

i can't speak for every one with autism. so this is just my experience living with Asperger's syndrome.

i got rejected by the danish draft system when i mentioned i had asperger's syndrome. which was okay for me since i felt i would be in way anyway.

Why's that?