Posted by Dinah on July 15, 2008, at 23:14:49
I paused halfway through my standard "And how are you?" opening today, and gave him a searching look. He asked "How do I feel?", then laughed and said he ought to know he can't get anything past me.
I asked him how he can think I'm schizotypal when he acknowledges I'm *right*. One of the reasons he gave for thinking that diagnosis fit was my belief in my semipsychic abilities. But it always bugged me since he acknowledged I *could* read his slightest changes in emotions. Today he acted as if he didn't remember that he ever thought I was schizotypal. He said the entire package might give the appearance of schizotypal, but that he never would diagnose me as schizotypal.
Silly man. We fought for a year over that one.
Still...
It's nice. It shows how much he sees me now as me. I noticed today that he immediately understood something I said, even though I expressed it as idiosynchratically as I always did. But I guess he can now follow my trains of thought.
I'm not saying he doesn't still think I'm weird, or dysfunctional. I have always thought he thinks I'm worse off than I think I am. But at least now I think he thinks I'm weird and dysfunctional in a uniquely Dinah and not altogether bad sort of way.
He has a new way of conceptualizing at least some of my issues. I think parts of what he says are correct, and parts aren't. I need to think about it some.
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