Psychiatrist today asked if I believe in aliens.

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"IJ Dee-Vo", as I said

I went on a trip to the Galapagos with my parents and saw the tortoises there.


Got home, the creepy guy psychiatrist asks me how they mate.


Relevance to /anything/, please? I told him about the tortoises, sea lions, volcanoes... and /that/ is what he asks me about? Creepy, creepy man...

That doesn't answer the question. It's, as far as I can tell, a name that is somehow relevant to the thread.

Well it did technically answear the question who, and it was omepnme who claimed to be abdusted and chiped. whioch Is why I brought it up

I fail to see how that is creepy.

But cool you got to go there!

Well. In a normal setting, a 50-some year old man asking questions like that to a 15-year-old girl would seem out of place and creepy, given that nothing of what I talked about had to do with mating, and the tortoises were just a small part of the whole experience. Just because he has a PhD does not exempt him from seeming creepy for that focus.

When I was 12 my psychiatrist asked me if I heard voices in my head, because she realized within minutes of talking one-on-one that I has AS. The reason they ask these questions is because they are diagnosing you and your behavior based of the DSM-IV criteria which states specifically the symptoms of AS require the absence of schizophrenia. They wont ask you if you have Tourette's and factor that in because it's unrelated; however they will ask for schizophrenia symptoms because it seems to mimic AS without having anything to do with PDDs.

I was asked if I heard voices, I saod all the time, when people are alking, when the tv is on, when the radios on. They didnt like me for some reason, not that I cared.

Yeah, especially if you have the flat affect and eccentric behavior that's so common with schizophrenia. It can be really bad to misdiagnose schizophrenia as something else, because if you catch it early you can usually manage it just fine; but if it goes on for a while, it gets really tough to control. Psychiatrists have to be absolutely sure you don't have it, even if you only show one or two symptoms.

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I hate how people think that you believe in aliens you are delusional and according to docs that would be part of it. I believe and know 100% that there are many kinds of aliens in the universe. I have talked about them many times on this board and others. There are different ones and in different time periods. Some are behind in tech compared to us, but other alien races are hundreds of thousands of years ahead and the tech is so far out there that humans can't even begin to imagine what they have. Yes, they have visited Earth many times starting about 26,000 years ago. I have seen them and their UFO's and of course the psychiatrist and all everyone else just automatically says its a delusion. In fact, they not just claim its a delusion but a "bizarre" delusion meaning impossible in real life. Yeah, trillions of planets out there and we are the only "intelligent" life forms. Dream on stupid docs! I hardly think humans are intelligent, you see evidence of the lack of intelligence during driving and planning skills. Just now in whatever the year is, we are finding planets that contain water. Yes, its boiling water at freaking 400 degrees or whatever (I think that is how hot the newest planet is but I could be way off it might be 1000 degrees) too hot for life as we know it but who says aliens live the same as we do? We are just beginning to discover these what is known as super earths and they are now claiming that they will find life within a few years time. It will be sooner than this. I find that I notice patterns all over the world way before anyone else could pick up on it. Before they announced the super earth discovery, and other astronomy related news I have been receiving information from the gov and the aliens themselves. When I said this they all claimed (including people on the boards even this one) I was psychotic. All the technologies that they told me are becoming well known. I like using facts for the stuff I believe no matter how bizarre it sounds. I have enough insight to realize that what I say sounds weird to outsiders but doesn't make it any less accurate. Yes, I have been diagnosed as schizoaffective and HFA not Asperger's.

Watch StarGate much?

Anyway, gotta get back to my time traveling. I'll try not to cause any paradoxes. See ya!

It was a trick question. The focus was on the word belief. I bet. People who unquestioningly believe in things, without unambiguous empirical evidence would score lower on my autiferous scale. Of course people who distrust empirical evidence are even hire than those who require it... ohh. It's all twisty inside!

Exactly; I wouldn't be worried at all if you said, "Well, I think alien life exists, and here's why; I think they may have visited us, and here's the evidence," rather than being dogmatic and saying, "Aliens exist and they've visited us," absolute, without referral to evidence or logic. The difference between having an opinion that alien life exists, and having a delusion that alien life exists, is that the person with the delusion will not be using logic or evidence to come to his conclusions; or if he does, the logic will be broken and the evidence will be illogical.

Incidentally, even if they were absolutely sure that aliens existed, and didn't have a decent argument (for whatever value of "decent" that they were capable of; I wouldn't expect as much from a C student as from a professional philosopher, naturally), there is still the possibility of merely having schizotypal personality--the odd, eccentric, superstitious person who is nevertheless still in touch with reality and does not have any outright psychosis.

Shouldn't the psychologist ask if they beleive in God as well

When people ask me if I believe in aliens I explain to them that the mathematical odds seem to support the probability of life being plentiful in the universe.

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