Once they're hired into a position the employee can document their illness (they don't have to tell the employer ahead of time) with the employer, then the employer is required to make reasonable concessions. There is an exemption in the case of undue hardship (this is the employer's responsibility to prove to the court) and the employee must still be able to perform his essential duties.

Firing someone because their mental illness is interfering with their ability to perform their essential duties isn't protected under the ADA because it isn't discrimination. If any one employee doesn't do their job, then they would also be fired: the person isn't being terminated because they have a mental illness, but because they can't do their job.

For instance, a stock boy with social anxiety may request reasonable concessions to not perform cashier or clerking duties on the front end. He is still perfectly able to stock the shelves.

America has the same law, it's called the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Schizophrenia isn't psychopathy. Not that psychopathy is a condition that would affect the quality of code.

You should educate yourself about mental illness. You clearly do not understand it.

Further, it's illegal to discriminate against the mentally ill.

I think you mean whoever gets there and brutally murders anyone who was there before them wins the rights.

Yeah, that sounds more like manifest destiny.

Yeah, it's not like a government can forcibly seize assets and keep you from launching to begin with.

You should look at the statistics for people who attend Harvard. 30% of their students have a family that pulls in 150k or more.

You mean besides have serious diplomatic repercussions with pretty much everyone?

Yeah I can't see why pissing on your economic partner could be a very bad idea.

Nuclear option is a bad one.

How's that working out for you?

I like this line of thinking.

It's very likely that people with ASD are far more susceptible to anxiety and depression disorders, but this might be due to the ludicrous amount of bullying autistic children receive (38% in this study over a single month).

It's anecdotal and has no empirical backing. Pilot studies aren't showing promise, but a larger study is required to make any definitive conclusions.

It's likely because of the incidence of intestinal disorders, namely celiac disease, switching the diet is providing treatment for the specific disorder improves their children's symptoms, but isn't actually affecting the underlying autism.

There's already a good lead that amino acid supplementation may cure a certain rare form of autism, but there are many different causes. It's important to note that the study wasn't done on humans (research ongoing), and the type presents with intellectual disability (retardation) and epilepsy.

So the above doesn't actually treat "autism", it treats certain debilitating aspects of it. The personality nuances may still be intact after treatment, we don't know for sure yet.

In the study we're discussing now, "autism-like" was a good choice of words. We're not actually certain the mice had autism: they simply displayed symptoms that scientists concluded were autistic.

In the end autism isn't studied enough to make any definite conclusions about anything. On a more philosophical note, however, imagine if there were an introvert vaccine that turned introverts into extroverts. Perhaps we're closing in on a point where we can alter people's personalities, which has some wide implications for the penal and mental health systems.

It's exacerbated by a society that doesn't take it seriously.

No, really, no one takes the fact you have a mental illness seriously until you do something completely batshit crazy like shoot up a school. If I had a nickel for every time someone told me I didn't have a reason to feel depressed...

You are ignored, basically, until you commit a crime. THEN people care. Until then you're not ill, you're just a lazy loafer.

Yup yup!

Just think of the poor starving lawyers!

So if my computer just happens to download your copyrighted files by algorithm, it's okay because it was all done by a computer.

Sounds reasonable to me.