I find what your t said to be beyond distasteful. I'm sorry you had that experience. I would find it difficult to work with a T that was like that.


I've had the opposite. I'm a white female and people assume my first language is English. People assume my parents went to college and that we have always been middle class (which we are really like lower middle class...between my Dad and I we make less than the median income for our area) when in fact we lived in poverty for my beginning years. My parents made a total of $600 a month for a family of four when I was little and we did not get government assistance. I've been told that I couldn't possibly know what poverty is like. I've been told that I'm just a rich white girl who has had it easy her whole life. It's best if people don't make assumptions. One would hope that a therapist would know better. Then again, I'm also guilty of the biases of my education. I've never taken a geography class. Once when I worked in retail we had to write the zip codes or the country of where the coupon holder was from. The woman was from Czechoslovakia and I couldn't spell it and she reamed me one. I was like as an explanation after my apology to the woman I said, as a whole, I've found most people of my age group in America to be very bad at geography. Maybe I shouldn't have made that assumption!