I Took a Test This Morning.

[menace64]

Well, actually, a collection of several tests designed to help pinpoint what's specifically wrong with my brain (as I've mentioned in previous topics, my short-term memory has gone somewhere and I can't find it).

The tests ranged from pattern repetition (tester touches several blocks and I must follow her sequence), face recognition (tester shows me 15 or so pictures of individual faces and I must discern them out of a collection of 40 or so pictures), word-pair games (tester gives me 10 or so pairs of words and I must recall them intermittently throughout the entire session), and a smattering of drawing exercises.

It was rough. There's nothing more humiliating than being asked to accomplish a seemingly childish task and coming up short. For example, I had to listen to the tester read to me a short story, then I had to repeat it back to her as best I could. I sat there and listened to the whole thing. Then I stared at her with nothing to say. As soon as she'd finished I'd forgotten it!

And then we did a simple drawing test. In a square on a piece of paper there were 10 circles, 5 white and 5 black. The tester asked me to draw a line connecting 5 of the dots, alternating colors as I drew. I was dumbfounded to realize I usually forgot what color dot I'd just passed through on my way to the next. Like I said... humiliating.

But other than repeating the obvious statement that something's wrong with my memory, I learned a pretty cool truth: I'm almost completely ambidextrous. She asked me what hand I used most and I said left, but the tests showed a different story. One such test consisted of putting small metal pegs into matching holes on a board. I could only use one hand at a time. I accomplished the task at the exact same time with both hands. And each hand is just as strong as the other, according to a grip test.

It was 7 hours of grueling testing that I pushed through in just over 3. I didn't want to go back tomorrow and put my poor brain through another morning of tests. Blegh. For the first time in my life, I'm calling myself 'mentally exhumed.'

[sickofpalantirs]

wow. praying for you. at least your ambidextrous! thats good to know...

[AgentDrake]

Well, at least they're getting closer to finding out what's going on.
And ambidexterity is a nice little discovery, too.

Prayers.

[DáinIronfoot]

I have been praying and will continue to do so. Can't imagine how frustrating that must be.

Good to know that if your current jobs don't cut it, though, you could pursue work as a demonstrative sharpshooter. "And now...Menace the Kid, with his two-handed feats of wonder! Right handed? Left handed? Doesn't matter...he can pick a tick off a fly at 100 yards with EITHER, ladies and gentlemen!"

...or something like that.

[menace64]

lol well I did go visit the batting cages last night (for the first time in years) to see if I could smack some baseballs equally-well from both sides of the plate. It hurt quite a bit to swing left-handed because I never did as a lad, but I hit just about every ball.

As an update, I went back to the testing place this morning and did a 650+ True/False questionnaire about myself. It was full of really bizarre questions like "Did you cross the Atlantic 50 or more times within the past year?" and "Do you sometimes hear voices without knowing where they came from?".

But the best one, by far, was: "Do you feel that someone is trying to take control of your mind and thoughts?"

I answered Yes to all such questions.

[Celebrimbor]

You actually FEEL someone is trying to take over your mind and thought?  That's not so strange, but very, very alarming.  Just refuse to let it happen.

[menace64]

lol sorry, I was being sarcastic. I don't think anyone's trying to take control of my mind.

I know they are.

[AgentDrake]

Dagnabbit, how could you detect my super-secret telepathic mind control powers?!? Most people are never aware of them until it's too late!

[sickofpalantirs]

Dagnabbit, how could you detect my super-secret telepathic mind control powers?!? Most people are never aware of them until it's too late!

master is right...spammer brain inferior to master...

[SomeRandomDude]

Well...we know AD didn't take over SoP's brain at least.

Grammar alone should show that.

[Shieldmaiden]

lol, this reminds me of something that happened to my husband a few years back.  He had to take a test similar to the true/false test that menace took, except that my husband's test was with a person asking him the questions face to face, rather than a written one.  The tester got to a question, "Do you ever receive messages from objects?"

My husband replied, "Yes, the television talks to me."

The tester got excited and leaned forward, thinking they were on to something.  "What does the television tell you?" he asked.

My husband replied, "It tells me the news and weather."   

[AgentDrake]

lol, this reminds me of something that happened to my husband a few years back.  He had to take a test similar to the true/false test that menace took, except that my husband's test was with a person asking him the questions face to face, rather than a written one.  The tester got to a question, "Do you ever receive messages from objects?"

My husband replied, "Yes, the television talks to me."

The tester got excited and leaned forward, thinking they were on to something.  "What does the television tell you?" he asked.

My husband replied, "It tells me the news and weather."  

ROFL. That's brilliant.