The worst part about these tests, in my opinion, is that they’re guaranteed to find a problem with every child. Don’t like to party, you have a social anxiety issue. Like to party, you have tendancies toward addiction and narcissism. Like to clean, you have ocd. Don’t like to clean, it must be because you’re depressed.
Absolutely true. And absolutely devastating if that so-called diagnosis gets into the official academic file for that student. I know a lot of people think that a diagnoses of some kind of handicap helps them make special demands for accommodating such as longer testing times but I have real concerns that it will come back to haunt the kids in later life, as in the Thomas Eagleton affair.
Now I have a kid who loves to clean and loves to party. She’s the most outgoing, inclusive, fun kid (okay she’s 21 now) around but her diagnosis probably is OCD and “anti-social anxiety disorder” or something. We all have neuroses, it’s what makes us unique. What would they make of my compulsion to count things, or my tendency to stop using something before I run out—so I won’t run out? Obviously I would be labeled dangerous and certifiably mentally ill although I am a mid-50-ish attorney, church leader, and newspaper columnist, not to mention happily married for 23 years and mom to two gorgeous, independent daughters with a son waiting for me in heaven.
sounds like you exhibit symptoms of explosive pessimism, that will be $50.
Took a College Phsyc course in High School. As part of Curriculum there was a section on Abnormal behavior. The instructor very carefully and clearly saying that we needed to know the material but that she did not want any of use diagnosing ourselves or any other members of the student body or faculty.
we all had a laugh about it until about a week later when the teacher asked how many of us were disorder hopping and all but three in the class raised our hands.
Gotta leave that stuff to the pro's and I don't mean a computer