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I've been summonsed for jury duty in ~1.5 months.
I suspect strongly that my difficulty with processing large chunks of spoken words will make me... somewhat unsuited for such a thing. I don't, however, have any proof of this problem.
Do I just tell them about my concerns, and let them make the decision? Or is there something else I ought to be doing?
I'm perfectly willing to try to go ahead and be on a jury. But I note that I have difficulty with meetings (generally ~1 hour long) if I can't take notes and play a game on my Palm, and even with _those_ aids, I'm exhausted after about 1.5-2 hours. And the pamphlet says I should expect to need to pay close attention for somewhere around 6 hours.
If I'm lucky, I won't be called for any trials, and it won't come up. If not, though, I have a strong suspicion that jury duty would entail the least pleasant and most exhausting mental activity I could possibly be doing, and will make me unfit for human company during the entire time I'm doing it.
I've never before needed proof of this problem, as I'm very good at avoiding situations in which it would come up. So I don't have any. And, much as I'm sure my mother (a school psych) would probably be willing to write something explaining the problem, she's related to me. So probably wouldn't be an acceptable source of such information.
ljgenie]I've been summonsed for jury duty in ~1.5 months.
I suspect strongly that my difficulty with processing large chunks of spoken words will make me... somewhat unsuited for such a thing. I don't, however, have any proof of this problem.
Do I just tell them about my concerns, and let them make the decision? Or is there something else I ought to be doing?
I'm perfectly willing to try to go ahead and be on a jury. But I note that I have difficulty with meetings (generally ~1 hour long) if I can't take notes and play a game on my Palm, and even with _those_ aids, I'm exhausted after about 1.5-2 hours. And the pamphlet says I should expect to need to pay close attention for somewhere around 6 hours.
If I'm lucky, I won't be called for any trials, and it won't come up. If not, though, I have a strong suspicion that jury duty would entail the least pleasant and most exhausting mental activity I could possibly be doing, and will make me unfit for human company during the entire time I'm doing it.
I've never before needed proof of this problem, as I'm very good at avoiding situations in which it would come up. So I don't have any. And, much as I'm sure my mother (a school psych) would probably be willing to write something explaining the problem, she's related to me. So probably wouldn't be an acceptable source of such information.
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Very briefly.
Apparently, when I said that I didn't feel I could make any kind of judgement without hearing both sides of the story, and the judge said that the law didn't require the defendant to say a thing in court, and I responded "Well, she's here, so they must have had enough evidence to arrest her, and that's going to influence how I think about this," suddenly the defense attorney felt that I wasn't suitable for his jury.
*shrug* I dunno. I wasn't lying when I said that, but I'm a different person now and I've grown up a lot. Even so, I know that my diagnosis will keep me off juries for the rest of my life; my judgement and my understanding of the world are too flawed to be useful in any situation where I'm supposed to be the judge, and could cause an innocent person a lot of legal damage.
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But not being able to process all the information which people are trying to give me _is_ a possible problem.
On the plus side, I suspect that the fact that I learned how to cope with lecture-based classes would help, if I have the ability to take notes. And/or play non-complicated games on my Palm.