bloodyrosemccoy | Bad Sign Number Six Million And Twenty-One

When your mom comes into your room and says, “Hi, honey! I found those T-shirt scraps you were looking for. Also, I think you have Asperger’s. Ask your psychiatrist when you see him again.”

What am I supposed to do with that? I told her that Asperger’s is the latest condition you can suddenly get by reading the Wikipedia article about it,* but when your mom decides that you have it, it kinda makes the Forer effect seem a little harder to discount.

If nothing else, it'll make for an entertaining round of Ask The Psychiatrist.

*Although let’s be fair—sometimes reading an article on a condition can be an epiphany. As in, “Holy shit! There’s a name for that characteristic of mine which people have commented on for years!”