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Originally Posted by yagr
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. 
I have a host of physical disabilities as well so this is not the only reason for disability.
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. |
No I don’t think you deliberately TRIED to aggravate testers, neither was my husband when he was questioning questions instead of answering them. I just suggest that you TRY NOT to aggravate them.
Yes I understand that questions are imperfect. But you aren’t there to improve quality of tests. You are there to get SSI. You could answer presidents prior to current one were: XYZ. Or you could say 5 including the last one were XYZ. I think less you ask, better you might be. Maybe ask less?
If you have ASD, even mild, it might effect how you understand and process questions. That’s fairly typical. In my line of work I see it all the time.
Everyone will just answer questions, right or wrong but person with ASD would understand it was something else. Sometimes understanding it too literally. It doesn’t matter how smart you are, you might just not grasp nuances.
I don’t condone lying though
What I don’t undersrand is how can psychiatrists not understand why you answer questions the way you do?