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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not that I necessarily think they're trying to discriminate against people with autism giving blood, but there's one of these on the blood donation intake questionnaire.

Intake Questionnaire: In the last year, have you used any illegal drugs via needle injection?

Me: No.

IQ: In the last year, have you had sex with anyone who uses illegal drugs via needle injection?

Me (married): Well, it's not as if I can keep an eye on my wife 24/7... you know what, I'm just going to mark it No.

IQ: In the last year, have you had sex for money?

Me: No.

IQ: In the last year, have you had sex with anyone who has had sex for money?

Me: I'M TELLING YOU, I CAN'T KEEP AN EYE ON HER AT ALL TIMES, SO FUNDAMENTALLY I CANNOT GIVE A CERTAIN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sounds like you need to improve your communication with your wife about her potential IV drug use and extramarital affairs.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't watch her 24 hours a day! I can't say, with certainty, that she doesn't transform into a dragon and fight gremlins in a parallel dimension when I'm not around! It's a fundamentally impossible question to answer, short of "To the best of my knowledge..."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    That one at least has a reasonably understandable medical purpose, all donated blood is tested for the kinds of diseases that these questions are meant to attmpt to screen for, and any amount of testing that can be avoided early saves them more money to spend on other lifesaving pursuits.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can't even say the same thing about yourself. Maybe you have a form of sleepwalking where you unknowingly wander off at night and become a heroin user, turning tricks to pay for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well in the case of blood donation it's more about not taking/giving blood thzt might have ISTs.

    The questions you listes are "interesting" but i think something closer to the issue here (i.e filtering out people out of bigottry) would be like "in the last 4 months have you had sex with someone of the dame sex ?"

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