Is it normal to be told liking psychology makes you autistic

I had this ex who is also a coworker. Who would insist repeatedly that me wanting to be a psychologist makes me autistic. I explained I had people in my life I cared about with mental illness as a child(like niaghbors and family friends). I explained how I wanted to help people with disorders because they didn't have help a lot of times. That I felt sad there was so many people suffering in this world. Everytime I say this they say it's because I'm autistic.

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  • Pumpurrnickel

    Your ex is an idiot.

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  • VetusRebellioIudaicum

    Everything is autistic these days. Imagine, even autism is considered to be "autistic".

    Savages

    Keep studying the human mind, you'll be amazed.

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  • Ummitsme

    That kid sounds like he's wayyyy out on the spectrum himself. Everyone knows psyche majors are borderline.

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  • Boojum

    It sounds like your ex/co-worker has put you in a box labelled "Autistic", and now they see every choice you make as being due to this.

    You don't say if you've been diagnosed as being on the spectrum, but the fact that you have formed meaningful, empathic connections with people suggests you don't fit the stereotype of profound autism.

    I think I can see some logic in what your ex/co-worker says. Since autistic people find it difficult to understand and relate to people, and since psychology is about the study of human behavior and mind, an autistic person could study psychology in order to try to intellectually understand what others grasp intuitively.

    Even so, autism is term used in a derogatory way by many ignorant people, and I have to wonder if that's what's happening here. This person is an ex, and maybe they're most comfortable explaining what went wrong in your relationship by blaming it all on you and your autism (even if you've never actually been diagnosed as being on the spectrum). So now they've put you in that box, everything you say, every time you do something that annoys them, and every choice you make will be understood by them as being due to your autism.

    I suspect most people decide to study psychology not because they're autistic, but because they recognize that they're fucked up in one way or another, and they want to understand what the hell is going on in their own heads.

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  • GeekyGold

    It is a wonderful thing that you wanna go into a career that helps people. I think you're awesome for that so don't let anyone bring you down. Your ex is just being an ignorant jerk anyway so don't even listen to them, becoming a psychologist it is NOT at all in any way autistic.

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