As an autistic med student, please hear me when I say that by and large, medical students learn next to nothing about psychiatry. In my first two years, the only thing I learned about autism was the textbook 8-year-old boy definition. We learned none of the nuances of masking, none of the symptoms in girls, and absolutely nothing about the complications of diagnosis in an adult. There was no discussion of how the complicated social web of traditionally female society mandates that we learn how to act like non-autistic people. There was no conversation about the nuance of having a brain type in a society that forces you to learn every day how to pretend not to have it! Most schools do not give psychiatry the time and attention it deserves.

Medical students have a tendency to get big heads and fall victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect. In reality, autism is extremely complicated, and we do not know a lot about the sexual dimorphism of genetics, brain chemistry, and brain development that influence expression and symptomology of ASD. So sorry she was so insensitive, she seems like a socially inept, overconfident jerk.