can a person be found mentally incompetent if he has worked a job for six years and completed high school?

Question

person has learning disablilty in reading but nothing else wrong

Answer 1

If the person is able to live on his own and manage his own finances and make decisions, then no, he is not mentally incompetent. some incompetent people can work, if they are supervised at all times and given easy work.
However, your candidate seems unlikely, as he has completed high school. Learning disabilites don't make a person mentally incompetent.
Actually, part of the definition of a learning disability is that the person MUST have normal intelligence but a significant learning problem. A learning disability means that the person has a problem with a certain type of learning (usually reading) and needs extra help or strategies to learn things that other people of normal intelligence can learn the conventional way. If a person is mentally challenged or has a lower iq, they automatically can not be considered learning disabled, because the lower intelligence makes the person have difficulty learning. A learning disability just means the person has difficulty in one area.
So, it is very unlikely this person is mentally incompetent (unless they were misdiagnosed with the learning disability)

Answer 2

Yes. Many factors can go into this such as mental illness. Mental illness such as schizophrenia usually affects people between 12-29 years old (during this time is when they first start getting symptoms and get diagnosed) and their diagnosis will last their entire life. There are some very good medications to help with the symptoms, but not cure them. Our minds are very delicate and essentially can "crack" at any point in time and we can't control it. There are also lots of other different things that can cause people to be considered mentally incompetent.

Answer 3

Seeing as Mickey Mouse gets several votes every election I'd say there aren't any in place. However, everybody has the right to vote - I'd be hesitant to create laws to restrict that. That is the whole point of democracy. Your mother wouldn't even qualify - religious or supernatural beliefs are not classified as mental illnesses. While I agree that your mother's decision is irrationally made, she is not necessarily mentally ill. Stripping the mentally ill of their right to vote would be degrading them in my opinion - it implies that they aren't "good enough" to have a say in the government. If a high school drop out has the right to vote, why not an educated mentally disabled person - and there are some out there. My little brother is autistic, and he is very intelligent. If anybody tried to take away his right to vote, I would have something to say - and it would not be very nice. Peace!

Answer 4

If it's just the learning disability then I don't see how. I mean if they developed some additional condition due to aging or accident I could understand but not if nothing has changed. You didn't mention in what capacity but if we're talking about competent to stand trial it would be possible for a person who although they could live on their own and were self sufficient that they be declared not mentally competent to stand trial as it's a matter of understanding legal culpability. But it wouldn't be from just a learning disability I don't think.

Answer 5

No. Never heard of such a thing. Not based on what you've said. Just because he has a learning disability doesn't make him incompetent. It would have to be a really severe disability to make someone incompetent and they wouldn't be able to hold a job or graduate school.

Answer 6

Yes, they could easily be taking medication and for some odd reason they don't take it anymore. So yes it's possible

Answer 7

of course not