True story about multiple choice Rorschach tests.

It's obviously an Xmas tree decorating contest.

you should usually answer vagina, but occasionally alter and replace with the more obscure 'vagina dentata.'

Serious question: is that really the purpose of the test? I've heard that claim before somewhere............

But a similar thing happened to me once. As part of an effort to get 20 hours of volunteering time, I took a 3 hour multiple choice test, over a thousand questions. "Have you ever felt your body was seperate from your mind?" and "Have you ever accidentally read anyone's thoughts?"

I answered yes to most of that stuff.

Later I would determine, after they asked me many other questions and hooked me up to wires and shit that seemed a lot like the research methods from Ghostbusters, that they were doing something regarding the thought processes of a "new" schizophrenic (someone, about the age of college entrance, that hasn't be On my way! fully schizoid yet).

It wasn't until the end of a few months of "working with me" that I noticed a copy of the initial test laying around in the office. It had clearly stated "When you were NOT on drugs...". Oh, shit. I totally misread that. The actual sentence was quite long with several dependent and independent clauses and I just kind of skipped through the whole "not" word.

So I answered the questions with "Oh, yeah, at that Dead show in Oakland I could totally read everyone's mind around me" in the back of my mind. Hell YES I'd uncontrollably astrally projected -- I owned a four foot bong, and astral projection is the whole point in owning a bong the size of a small child.

And no, I never 'fessed up. I figured statistics would take care of me, and I needed the five bucks an hour stipend for more weed.

is the whole point in owning a bong the size of a small child. "

That's the best story ever, lol.

a history of seeing things or hearing voices.......and I had to explain that several people hear the banshee and/or talk with ghosts of loved ones...........he said that was OK but not what he was thinking of.

...they would answer the "Do you hear voices" question too literally. This was back when many H-F-ing autistic kids were diagnosed with "Childhood Schizophrenia".