Can a diagnosis hold you back? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If an employer wanted to do a background check what would be the limits? Like would they have access to your medical history? and if so as someone with ASPD this would be a huge problem.

I work in entertainment so it wouldn't really affect anything but still. Being a literal sociopath isn't a good look. That's why I haven't told anyone irl. It wouldn't look good to an employer. Could it hold me back? And if so is there anyway I can withhold such information?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

My therapist told me that a diagnosis of a mental health disorder means you have a disability*. So if they choose not to hire you because of your ASPD diagnosis, in the US at least, that's discrimination against a protected class. I have AvPD, and that was a concern for me too

*(although many disorders don't always earn the label "disability" when a person is seeking benefits)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, but good luck proving that. My partner is disabled, and has learned to avoid disclosing her disability until after she gets hired. Because if she mentions it during the interview process, she’ll get ghosted every time.

Proving it usually requires proving a pattern of behavior. And as an individual applicant who isn’t in touch with the other applicants (both past and present), that’s basically impossible to do.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh, yeah. I didn't mean to imply that getting a job with a disability is easy or that employers actually follow laws. I was more trying to point out that a personality disorder is a disability, because most people won't see it that way

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