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Old Aug 05, 2018, 03:14 PM
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I think it is really hard to read or hear evaluations of ourselves. I've had several from my therapist for SSDI or voc rehab and even though he warned me I still felt sad reading what he said. I also had an OT evaluation from voc rehab and it was probably even more difficult because I am an OT and so I knew exactly what she meant.

But those things don't matter really. They are maybe things you want to work on in therapy. Or you don't. I mostly haven't spent a lot of time on them except for trying hard to learn to make eye contact and to appear happy when I am happy as my therapist thought I was pretty negative for a while and I don't think I am; I think I was flat and that's what he saw in the flatness. So I fight to be less flat and things are better.

Just don't take it too personally. An evaluation is about finding the negatives probably more than the positives. You know the positives about yourself. YOu are smart, caring, a dedicated worker, etc. Those are what matter.
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