the urge to learn about psychology

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i have noticed in several other topics people mentioning their interest in psychology. i, too, used to look after the books about psychology, every time i visited a library; although at the time i had no idea i may have asperger's. i guess it was a way to find out more about the way the human mind functions, a way to cover the lack of ability to read others. so that's why i found psychology so fascinating! how was it about your interest in psychology? was there any?

Okay, first time I visted this, I had to close the tab. You read my mind. IT'S SPOOKY, DAMN IT!! !!

I majored in psychology last february.

I learnt about AS in 1999, I started university in 2001, and I'm sure that my subconscious told me to pick psychology in order to understand both myself and other people. It was a really hard time for me back then (very suicidal) [Actually I started with statistics but switched to psychology after 2 months].

In fact it helped a lot (the bad: having this kind of knowledge + AS tendecy to self-observation + AS tendency to sistematization = too much introspection -> > risk of depersonalization).

Currently I enjoy reading psychology-oriented novels.

My undergrad degree was Psychology. Didn't really help me too much, other than to realize everybody is weird.

I DID enjoy my math and statistics courses too. I really liked that there was one answer and a way to get it. No having to read faces or body language. Math is a pure language. It speaks to everyone the same. If there was a way to speak in mathematics where what comes out of my mouth can ONLY be interpreted in ONE way, as well as the same thing applying to other people's words, I would be very happy.

My minor was Human Sexuality. I learned everyone is a lot weirder than I thought they were just from psychology.

I now would rather avoid people and sex after learning what I did. I ended up with more questions than answers. It was much better when I didn't know anything. Not that I know that much now, I just have a wider variety of questions.

I had a deep interest in AS at august/september 1993, but I could find nothing about it at the librarys by that time.

Very similar to my experience.
Didn't understand my family or what was wrong with everyone, so the self-help articles in women's magazines were all I had to go on, as a kid. Eventually, I became interested in psychology books (I still have a few textbooks from college) & devoured them. Many years later, I got a new dx that I'd never heard of & have been researching ASD's ever since.
So my search has in a way parallelled that of psychology as a discipline: from psychoanalytic attributions (someone must be to blame) to neurology (we're all biochemically different from each other).

I'm fascinated by neurology and evolutionary psychology. (I can't get into the Freud- and Jung-based things I've found. Where's their basis? It just seems like the old Aristotelian-based forms of "science" to me.)

that's how i felt at first lol