"I sometimes hear or see things that others don't hear or see." Yep, and it's from a jacked-up nervous system with acute senses, not to mention noticing things other people don't. (Mosquito ringtones, anyone?!) Sensory sensitivities do not exist to most mental health professionals. Again, I learned pretty damned quickly not to admit this was true, and was still deemed to show "psychotic features" from some of my observed sensory reactions.
Oh, gah. This one caused me no end of trouble when I was younger, for exactly the same reason, and I think I seriously confused some psychologists because of it. I was being completely truthful; I did see and hear things that nobody else acknowledged. Doesn't mean those things weren't there, just that other people didn't acknowledge them. I pretty much had to be explicitly told not to answer truthfully to that one, because most NTs would interpret it differently.
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Date: 2010-05-01 08:45 pm (UTC)Oh, gah. This one caused me no end of trouble when I was younger, for exactly the same reason, and I think I seriously confused some psychologists because of it. I was being completely truthful; I did see and hear things that nobody else acknowledged. Doesn't mean those things weren't there, just that other people didn't acknowledge them. I pretty much had to be explicitly told not to answer truthfully to that one, because most NTs would interpret it differently.