I know!!! They can tolerate heat and humidity unlike most MS'ers!

Could it be because you have a cold?

Hope you feel better soon.

Sounds like the MMPI! I had a real problem with that test. There were several questions on there that I had a problem answering because of the phrasing. Oh well, glad I have never had to do any neuro-psych testing and glad that yours is over.



tree leaves and fly wings look similar. I remember that from my botany class.

Okay, first: how are a tree and fly similar? sheesh, I feel stupid now!

Cheryl - I also have a problem with the MMPI. I had to take it when I was a teenager - and the shrink said they could not validate my results because I had LIED! Huh?

Well, the question was something about "swearing" - I said I never swear.... and the doctor told me I had just said fuc% a million times to him. I said, "That's not swearing, that's cursing!!!" Sigh. Apparently, that is called swearing....but I grew up and it was called cursing. Swearing, to me, meant making statements like, "I swear....yadda yadda yadda" - which I never did.

The MMPI is one of those "biased" tests that relies on language based on a norm that hasn't been updated in eons.

Okay, not back to the fly and tree?

~Keri

I am so impressed that you remembered so much of the test to be able to tell us about it!

I think you're smarter than you think you are!


C'mon, tell us the answer to the fly/tree question!!!

Read my post Twink! I answered the question!

Sheesh...

Actually, Cherie wins the prize for the answer. There may be other similarities, but only one "right" answer. For instance, "they both can be irritating" (buzzing around and giving you hay fever/rashes [poison oak and sumac]) or "they both drop things all over" (fly poop and tree leaves) or my original answer, "they both can go up in the air."

No, FG, it's not because I might be getting a cold. I don't feel crappy or anything, just have a cough and had some sinus pressure so may be working up to my (semi?) annual case of bronchitis and sinus infection. It's not there yet to the point where it's affecting me.

I think that the eye thing has more to do with the rapid flipping of the cards. It's similar to the problem I had when sitting in the passenger seat when in Wales--the motion of the landscape rapidly passing by in the rearview mirror made me a bit nauseous. Plus, we'd been at it all morning and most of the afternoon when she gave me that test. The MMPI-2 was the last thing she gave me.

Keri, I understand your problem with "lying." Too bad when we tell the truth we can be told we're lying. Ugh... I really hate the wording of the questions on the MMPI. Some of it's fine and easy to answer right away, but the other things....maybe I parse words too much. Didn't skip any of them and maybe should have.

Cherie, I used to love my mother. She's just pulled some amazingly cruel things on me and I can't justify keeping a relationship with her. At first when she started doing it, I loved her but didn't like her. Now I don't care one way or the other. She's got problems--real problems. I could forgive her for the things she did when I was a child because she did do the best she was able, but I do not forgive her for the things she did when I was an adult. You have to draw a line somewhere. Mine was at age 36. As for my father, how do you feel about a man who gets remarried when you're 13, tells you two weeks after it, and when you ask why you and your younger brother weren't invited he responds, "We only had close family there." I'm his DAUGHTER. That was his SON. How much closer family can you get?????? That's been the hallmark of my relationship with my father since he and my mom split.

I, too, hope that I get valid results this time. His office was very professionally run, so that's a nice start. But I'll reserve my judgment until I see the resulting report. (and it has nothing to do with how well I did either)


Laura, love the fly paper remark.

Twink, I've never professed to being smart. LOL I let people form their own opinions of that. I'm really worried more about memory issues.

Ugh..... who remembers things like the speed of light or the world population. Seriously! I used to know "ballpark" the speed of light but who uses that generally in their daily lives? I can give you the number of feet in a mile but not the speed of light. And the world population is in the billions but how many? Yet they ask these questions.

I honestly would have answered "Fly paper". It was the first thing that came to mind.

If I win a cookie, I hope it's low fat!!

That's exciting. I don't get these kinds of questions very often . . . guess helping my kids with science all the time has somehow kept me in the loop or something.

I get that too, Gazelle. Lot's of times when I stop, everything else doesn't. Apparently that is the definition of vertigo.

My mom was too crazy to intend any harm, and my dad died very young . . . so maybe that was a blessing.

I've done quite a few of these tests, just out of curiousity mostly. I was in HR for years and was interested in the personality assessments especially. I actually learned a lot from that testing, both about myself and others that did them! They feel kinda' creepy when you do them though as there never seems to be a "right" answer . . .

I would fail terribly at those questions, but I think if a person did well they might actually be more worried about THEM, then they do the "normal" people. I think they are testing on how you react to the stress of stupid questions more then whether you know the answer.

Cherie

That's it?

FG, I just thought you were venturing an educated guess, being a gardenologist and all.

Ah, heck! I thought it was supposed to be a riddle or something.

So I gather a fly and a leaf have veins that make them similar? Well, then, you oughta take a look at the tops of my hands! Egad!

Now wait a gosh derned minute! I just read Gazelle's post that's after yours Cheryl!

I'm so confewzed. Quitcher messin wit my haid!

Good thing I didn't have to take that same test, I wouldn't have made it past the fly/tree question.