It was the odd behavioural traits displayed by my uncle, who has Asperger’s syndrome that first generated from a young age my questioning about why he acted so ‘differently’ to the rest of us. This was part of what led to my interest of studying psychology, as it made me question how and why humans are so disparate from one another, and what part the brain plays in running our everyday lives.
As I began to study psychology at A level, it rapidly dawned on me how elements of it linked with my other studies. For example in history, the question of why Hitler’s ‘charisma’ was so epidemic in convincing a majority of the German people to trust and follow him blindly, and in geography, we can ask why certain cultural regimes are seen as very controversial to other cultures.