one of the funniest questions I’ve ever seen on a neurodivergence diagnostic test was “do you understand the meaning of yes and no”. how do they expect someone who doesn’t understand yes and no to respond to this question
…what. I cannot believe a test had this question
(that was hyperbole)
(yes i can literally believe it)
(tests are utter nonsense)
related: those depression quiz questions that ask “do you ever have thoughts of suicide” need to take into account that just reading and understanding that question requires you to have a thought about suicide, and so, if answering “yes” is a scary red flag to them, they are gonna need to rewrite the question
…realistically though, no one who writes those quizzes is qualified to define what they mean by thoughts of suicide (or any of their terms, lol)
they’d probably come up with something like “i meant thoughts about doing it yourself” and they still would not be able to categorize my thoughts
where would you categorize a thought like “wouldn’t it be fucked up if someone killed themselves in this specific, horrible way? what could their motivation be? …if I were in that situation, what circumstances could have driven me to it? how would i go about planning; how would i expect other people to react; what events could come from it that I would not, in that mindset, have considered as possibilities?”
and that is when the psychiatrist tells me I have Disturbing Intrusive Thoughts, which I never knew because I was raised to believe this was just a sign of being a Good Creative Writer