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Originally Posted by divine1966
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.
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Whew, thank you for this.
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Originally Posted by divine1966
I don’t condone lying though
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Me neither.
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What I don’t undersrand is how can psychiatrists not understand why you answer questions the way you do?
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My therapist is as stymied as you...and me. One question I run into on a test keeps coming back to me as I write this. It is, "Have people told you that you sleepwalk?" The answer is 'true' - I have absolutely been told that before. But the truth of the matter is that in each case they told me that, it was an alter up in the middle of the night before we shared co-consciousness. When she shared her memories with me, I remembered. There are actually a fair amount of questions like this that I face - where the true answer paints a different picture than the reality of the situation.
In a structured interview, I can explain that. On a true false questionnaire, I can't. So, I don't ever know what to do.