Don’t worry about it. It’s very easy to avoid talking about that kind of thing if I want to, but I tend to go on the principle that avoiding it makes the anxiety worse, and talking about it is likely to be desensitizing. Also note that I specifically volunteered all the information in the last paragraph—you didn’t ask for it. (The others were not stressful at all.)
I very much concur regarding the state of the mental health profession—that’s pretty much what I was referring to with my comment about this not being an ideal world. I just can’t talk directly about that yet without really stressing myself out.
Amusingly, part of the reason I’m so interested in brain- and mind-function is that I’m considering filling that niche myself, as a side job. It seems like I have an …interesting… path to travel if I want to get any kind of certification, though.
I took a tedious multi-day test for this sort of thing, among others. I wasn’t really able to use the results, as I had by then already figured out which things I was three and a half standard deviations below my general intelligence at. I didn’t fit the pattern for autism or anything else.
It would have saved me a lot of anguish if I had taken it when I was thirteen or so, so there’s a limit to how much I would indict the knowledge in the field.
Don’t worry about it. It’s very easy to avoid talking about that kind of thing if I want to, but I tend to go on the principle that avoiding it makes the anxiety worse, and talking about it is likely to be desensitizing. Also note that I specifically volunteered all the information in the last paragraph—you didn’t ask for it. (The others were not stressful at all.)
I very much concur regarding the state of the mental health profession—that’s pretty much what I was referring to with my comment about this not being an ideal world. I just can’t talk directly about that yet without really stressing myself out.
Amusingly, part of the reason I’m so interested in brain- and mind-function is that I’m considering filling that niche myself, as a side job. It seems like I have an …interesting… path to travel if I want to get any kind of certification, though.
I took a tedious multi-day test for this sort of thing, among others. I wasn’t really able to use the results, as I had by then already figured out which things I was three and a half standard deviations below my general intelligence at. I didn’t fit the pattern for autism or anything else.
It would have saved me a lot of anguish if I had taken it when I was thirteen or so, so there’s a limit to how much I would indict the knowledge in the field.