As an Aspie, I think philosophy is among the worse majors

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for someone with Asperger's.

I did NOT find a girlfirend through philosophy, literature, history, and other humanities/liberal arts major. These majors do not rehabilitate my Aspie symptoms, they do not address them, and they encourage lonely thoughts on useless abstractions like problems of free will versus determinism.

As an Aspie, I wish I had majored in a high-prestige major like computer science, and rake in the money, and then I can meet women as a rich man

Yeah, I do think money partly has something to do with that...

Some high-tech companies hire philosophers though, to think out scenarios and anticipate trends. Maybe you could find something there.

I took Internet Technology and I came out the same. I love philosophy and what have you and you're right about it

i'm not sure i understand your point. you wanted to find a girlfriend, so you decided to study philosophy?

although i do see what you mean about it encouraging you to spend time thinking about useless abstractions. i suppose it depends on why you wanted to study in the first place. to indulge your personal interests, or to learn a skill that is in high demand in a commercial scenario.

Just to find a girlfriend should not be your primary motivation to do anything. It WILL leave you lonely, broken, and possibly stuck in situations that you just plain don't want to be in (such as studying philosophy). Finding our soul mate is something that just happens. It takes TIME for it to occur. I know a lot of people who did things similar to what you're doing and they have wound up bitter and lonely. Seriously. Take a step back, look into yourself, re-evalutate your life, and re-prioritize your goals.



As for philosophy. I think it's great for Aspies. Aspies tend to have a much greater capactiy for upper level thinking and logic; and can come up with ideas that no one else could even dream of. I've never heard of philosophy ever being used to try to treat AS (sidnote, THERE IS NO CURE. It's not something you can just "get over". Why not try to learn how to harness it and work with it try to create something positive from it?).

I think aspies and philosophy go hand in hand

You hear a lot about people in computers making a lot of money, but it can be pretty hard to earn a descent living even with a degree.

It can however be useful for doing stuff for yourself. (Setting up a thing to call you on your cell phone to let you know that your computer is still on sort of thing)


Mind you Computer Science itself seems to have a lot of fairly useless math courses (yeah, there's a lot of math involved in computers, but not THAT much. )


As far as women go, as I see it one should just do stuff that's useful to them so that in the (probably likely) event that you don't meet anyone, at least you still got something out of it.


I would not recomend anyone get a philosophy major unless they want to study philosophy (which is a valid reason). It is unlikely you'll get anywhere with it.

i've read somewhere online that alot of college course are not really needed, it said that as long as you know the basics like reading math etc. you'll have just as much chances at getting a job as someone who takes all those philosiphical, drama arts whatever classes than someonene who doesn't take those classes. unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer or something that requires a special knowelege of something. seems to make sence since someone i knew had a degree in something that wasn't necessarily a special area, that would land her a job as soon as she got out of college, i think she told me she had a ba in human development and we were both working at the same place. target as an overnight stocker

What is philosophy other than a round of seemingly never ending questions in a search for understanding. From my experience, most women love it when you ask them questions. And as long as you listen intently and caringly, you will learn how to ask better questions. You will also learn what, and what not to say, as well as when and when not to say what needs to be said. Often their is a time when that someone you have developed a rapport with begins to think that you know so much about them yet they know so little about you. Based on what you have learned from their world view you should now have a set of experiences and commonalities that you can respond with. Philosophy is all about the wisdom of humanity, literally. Philo-Sophy.