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Originally Posted by divine1966
I am glad to see you here again. I PMed you few months ago worrying if you were all right.
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Thank you, that was kind. I asked for help with my PM box because it was overrun with messages that wouldn't have been good for me to read - yours must have been lost in the clearing. I'm glad you mentioned it though because I wouldn't have known nor had the opportunity to say thank you.
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Originally Posted by divine1966
Eventually his doctor found right meds and my now husband escaped his ex and abusive marriage and never needed to apply for disability again. He is doing well. But when he was telling me about the test I could imagine how aggravated tester was. I was annoyed just listening!
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I have a host of physical disabilities as well so this is not the only reason for disability.
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Originally Posted by divine1966
The point here is not how smart one is but how well can one take tests and how well can one BS. If you really want SSI, when asked about 5 presidents you should just suck it up and list 5 presidents or not list them but try not to aggravate testers. Try not to overthink it.
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A couple of thoughts here: Do you think that I was
trying to aggravate the tester? I certainly wasn't. It seems that many people can't for the life of them believe that I don't understand many questions the way they are asked - but I don't. I have heard the 'overthinking' thing before - you are certainly not the first, but for me, it is just thinking. Not to be rude, but from my perspective, everyone else just seems to underthink.
I actually oscillate between extreme frustration and extreme mirth watching interactions between people sometimes, wondering how in the heck they can understand each other when they ask questions the way they do.
For instance, let's say that you are a schoolteacher. If one of your students asked you what the last job you had was, you would (I'm guessing from observing similar situations and listening to conversations) probably not say, 'school teacher', right? You would tell them the job you had prior to teaching school...yes? I'm thinking that the operative word is 'last'.
So when I am asked to list the
lastfive presidents - I'm thinking, he doesn't want the current one just like you, in the previous example wouldn't say 'school teacher' (unless your last job prior to the current one was also school teacher).
How everyone in the world seems to instinctively know that 'last' means inclusive in this instance, and not inclusive in this other instance, is absolutely bizarre to me. Then he said 'inauguration' - there is nothing to over-think here. If we are talking about inaugurations, then Obama must be listed twice. But once again, everyone in the world seems to know that when he says inauguration he means something else - and I don't.
I have received so many suggestions over the course of my lifetime and I can't think of a single suggestion that doesn't come down to this: In order for us to test the way you think, you need to pretend to think more like us. Which doesn't actually test me but rather it tests my acting ability.
I don't know why I've got such a problem with lying; I truly wish I could get over it.