[humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment

[JD Townsend]

Disclosing is a matter of choice, however the examples you give are not ones 
that would usually be identified in an interview or on an application.  To 
disclose most often involves revealing a flaw or defect,  much more rarely 
we would disclose a virtue.  Should we disclose that we are a transexual 
that might influence an employer, as wrong as that might be.  Likewise our 
blindness, I feel it better to address an interview as a fully competant 
psychotherapist rather as a blind psychotherapist.  Given the time to 
reflect prior to a job interview the agency may very easily identify their 
reasons for not hiring a blind psychotherapist, perhaps granting an 
interview and feeling noble in the effort towards fairness.  I've 
interviewed with these folks, they are gracious, but are mine-set against 
hiring a blind person.  Blindness does not define me any more than my sexual 
preference, however many interviewers would not hire an openly lesbian 
applicant ... so most don't tell.  Whenever I put my blindness ahead of my 
abilities I got warm interviewers who did not hire me.  Once I walked in as 
a gifted clinician I rarely failed to obtain employment.


JD Townsend LCSW
Helping the light dependent to see.
Daytona Beach, Earth, Sol System