Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Really Work?
The Rorschach inkblot test is a type of projective assessment in which subjects look at 10 ambiguous inkblot images and say what they see in the image.
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Psychology: How the Rorschach Inkblot Test Works
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Whenever I see ink blot test pictures I just see ribcages and lungs.
The Rorschach is not normalized for autistics & gifteds (though not all psychologists seem to know this). It tends to over-pathologize us.
If you wish to disqualify yourself from taking it, see if you can view the images somewhere online. And make sure that the doctor knows that you have seen them.
Sexual & non-sexual.
Internal & external, etc.
That is a one-way ticket to a psychopathic diagnosis (at least, for an NT).
One of the images reminded me of a dog's face that I saw on a magazine cover in the waiting room.
*One of my main hobbies is figure drawing.
I have a number of books on anatomy for the artist published by medical illustrators.
And I find medical illustrations in doctor's offices to be fascinating.
(On the other hand, I get really grossed out when I see living people get cut in real life...
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If you wish to disqualify yourself from taking it, see if you can view the images somewhere online. And make sure that the doctor knows that you have seen them.
I saw a lot of anatomy, too.*
Sexual & non-sexual.
Internal & external, etc.
That is a one-way ticket to a psychopathic diagnosis (at least, for an NT).
One of the images reminded me of a dog's face that I saw on a magazine cover in the waiting room.
*One of my main hobbies is figure drawing.
I have a number of books on anatomy for the artist published by medical illustrators.
And I find medical illustrations in doctor's offices to be fascinating.
(On the other hand, I get really grossed out when I see living people get cut in real life...
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Could you explain what you mean by it not being "normalised"?
But you do understand the principle involved, right?
With math, you have an exact standard for a right answer.
Psychology tests (like the Rorschach and the MMPI) rely on statistical analysis.
People who have never exhibited [severe mental illnesses] tend to answer both tests in a similar fashion to each other.
People who demonstrate various clinical mental illnesses tend to answer similar to each other in specific groups according to their particular mental illness.
These tests reverse that analysis.
If you answer them as known psychotics tend to, you are suspected of having psychotic leanings.
If your answers mimic those of narcissists, you are suspected of that.
The answers of those who exhibit no such illness also tend to map similarly to each other.
(And the MMPI is quite predictive in that context, but the Rorschach, on the other hand, is quite subjective.)
Neuro-diverse people, like auties & gifties, start from a different baseline. Since that baseline has not been clinically established, it undermines the bases for those two tests.
When we don't like looking someone in the eyes, it is not necessarily evidence of guilt, for example.
As a student of eidonomy [external anatomy], I can look at a figure and get a sense of his or her muscles & bones. To those who do not understand us, that can sound like I enjoy seeing dismembered people when, rather, I enjoy looking at x-rays of people. I get grossed out at the sight of living people being cut!
I can stand autopsies/cadavers if there is an objective reason for me to be there, but I do not enjoy them otherwise.
I have full-size, plastic replicas of a skull, a skeletal hand & a skeletal foot in my [studio]...!
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Almost every picture looked like some type of animal to me.
Only one looked like two, tall, thin women.
I took it in college as part of a psychology course.
The instructor, a psychologist, said it meant I liked animals more than people.
That might be true for other autists also.
I didn't know back then that I was autistic.
Only one looked like two, tall, thin women.
I took it in college as part of a psychology course.
The instructor, a psychologist, said it meant I liked animals more than people.
That might be true for other autists also.
I didn't know back then that I was autistic.
That doesn't mean I'm a psychopath though, does it?
Does the Rorschach Inkblot Test Really Work?
The Rorschach inkblot test is a type of projective assessment in which subjects look at 10 ambiguous inkblot images and say what they see in the image.
Every single one of them looks like a groovy monster to me, but I also like drawing shapes that look a lot like these using a symmetry tool and actually creating cartoon monsters out of them, so there's that.
Sometimes I wonder if the answer 'monsters' to every one of them in a professional setting would be deemed a negative, when in reality I feel a lot of positivity with these answers. Because while some people might not want to see monsters in every shape they come across, I like the way I interpret them!
Maybe this is why they're not exactly meant for ND people, or why they're controversial to begin with even in the eyes of NTs. I could see a lot of human baggage getting in the way of the truth here.
Sometimes I wonder if the answer 'monsters' to every one of them in a professional setting would be deemed a negative, when in reality I feel a lot of positivity with these answers. Because while some people might not want to see monsters in every shape they come across, I like the way I interpret them!
Maybe this is why they're not exactly meant for ND people, or why they're controversial to begin with even in the eyes of NTs. I could see a lot of human baggage getting in the way of the truth here.
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That is a summary of how they diagnose NTs (or people they consider to be NT). The Rorschach is not valid for an autistic or gifted person. Neuro-diversity specialists know this, but there are too many out there who do not.
Why would it work on NTs and not otherwise? I'm half-NT, or almost NT, would it still work on me?
GrownupGirl
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Most psychologists probably think we don't see anything in the ink blots because supposedly we don't have imaginations.
I thought one of the blots looked kind of like Batman. I wonder what it's supposed to mean if you think they all look like animals.
Or body parts.
I thought one of the blots looked kind of like Batman. I wonder what it's supposed to mean if you think they all look like animals.
Or body parts.
Bats and moths are common responses to a couple of "ink blots".
I thought one of the blots looked kind of like Batman. I wonder what it's supposed to mean if you think they all look like animals.
Or body parts.
And they let you guys walk around unsupervised...!?
They have just tested enough NTs to [believe that they] recognize a pattern.
That is not true for autistics & gifteds.
Is that like Schrodinger's autistic...?
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