My T has answered some personal questions. With others, he has explained that he's not going to answer. He has never just dodged or ignored a question.
Questions he has answered: is he in the age range I guessed, is he left or right handed, what was the supposedly shameful secret he wrote anonymously on a card in a training exercise he told me about, what was the other shameful secret he mentioned in passing, is he Catholic as he mentioned going to a Catholic school, is he religious, would he cancel my session if he had a cold, does he watch Doctor Who, is he a vegetarian, is he a neat freak.
Questions he has refused to answer: he wouldn't tell me his own therapist's gender - he said I was flooded with information and we needed to be careful about adding more. I can't think of any others right now actually.
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