I've done both a psychiatrist and a separate psychologist assessment, and apparently I have overwhelming evidence of gender dysphoria.... Yay?!

also, the psychologist was interesting:

  • remember these words
  • what were the words?
  • other conversation
  • what were the words?

this was fine, I gave all the words back in alphabetical order.

then:

  • remember these numbers
  • what are the numbers?
  • what are the numbers in reverse?
  • short conversation
  • what were the numbers?

this too was fine, I gave the numbers back in alphabetical order too... and pointed out they were alphabetic "eight seven two... e s t" and got the most curious look from her 🀣

idk why remembering things is important to psychologists, sort order and algorithms are surely more important

Edit: apparently they may be looking for autism and ADHD with the memory bit.

@dee
Can confirm. That was a significant part of my autism assessment.
@dee yeah, suspected autism and adhd here and I immediately thought I'd fail this assessment halfway through your post.
@dee … or possibly your ability to handle 2-factor authentication codes under pressure.
@helenanne I'm good, but I can't calculate them by hand before they expire... So not that good
@dee hand whittling of elliptic curves is a lost art

@dee oh no, I can't remember things like this at all πŸ˜…

Yay for getting your letters πŸ’œ