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I had the chart memorized.

Eye exam?!? I didn’t have a chance to study!

That could explain why I can't see sharply all that far with my new-ish classes.

i feel like i'm learning something interesting about myself right now because, like...yeah of course you try to win the eye exam

i spent a long while doing therapy to correct my lazy eye and i think i would have had a lot easier time if i was just doing what they asked me to do instead of trying to figure out what the correct answer was but i think i would’ve needed normal therapy to figure that out

There's this field of vision test, where you get a clicker and are supposed to click when you see squiggly lines appear, it always seems to activate the "do well at game" bit of my brain.

That's just reminded me of

I read it and immediately went OH NOOOOOO

Paging @chrissyd-comedy.bsky.social 😂

Mind you, I'm pretty sure the optometry test would make a great NT/ND screen.

I immediately thought "how do you win? surely the goal is to get as many correct as possible". Then I went "oh."

Then they brought out the little symbol-decoding thing, and the sigh I sighed. Because, give me two weeks with it and I’ll etch it in my brain so deeply that I’ll still remember what each one means for the rest of my life, but 10 minutes? UGH.

this thread is old but I need to share that my neuropsych started visibly laughing and had to cover his mouth and leave the room real fast when I started doing the directions/practice stage of the click/don’t click test bc my finger was uncontrollably impulsively clicking already

I am resisting the urge to retake an online AuDHD screening to see if I can get my high 90s score up to 100. I still can't quite fathom that this is somehow not a universal thing.

lol i literally said this exact shit

i once managed to score a near perfect score like i missed one, no false and the psy-doc was like "ah. i see."

I sat in on Youngest’s test, I’ve not witnessed such mind numbing boredom in a long while. They did well at it, bc they got competitive. I haven’t done it, but I know I’d get hand spasms before I’d be half way through (we’re both AuDHD and the tester said those with both often score differently)

I didn't pass the Autism test because I didn't communicate the way the therapist doing the diagnosis wanted me to. He didn't tell me HOW he wanted me to communicate before giving me the test, though. Seems that alone should pass the test. ;)

I simply started hitting the button randomly and then took a nap lol

Oh. It me. Again realizing I’ve been doing life “wrong” 😩

Taking my AuDHD teen to get assessed for binocular vision disorder an being told nope it is just trauma 😬

Oh my gosh I DO THIS. I didn’t even realize it until I read this. And rarely do I feel like my prescription is correct. Thank you!

I love this thread. You are my people. A really cool eye doc once told me that when I went to grad school my nearsightedness would get worse, then better once I wasn't reading as much. She also said nearsighted eyes are greedy, and so tend to ask for the stronger lens on comparisons.

I went for a neuropsych. To unmask, I stayed up really late and had a fasting blood draw first thing; showed up tired, fretful, & they put memory and IQ tests in front of me. Somehow I did too well on the spacebar test. Flubbed IQ, then failed to show ADHD. Double facepalm.

I was going to say this is one thing I haven’t done because my eyes aren’t even that bad but no I have totally tried to win my eye exam before

as a neurotypical who loves tests and exams, my biggest problem is that i accidentally memorized the eye chart.

Oh no… I did this for my first few eye exams, then realized it was self-defeating. Probably partly denial of age-related vision loss

But if I can guess the correct letter based on shape cues and squinting a little then I “passed” the exam, right?

Not me practicing relaxing breathing exercises so that I can get an unnatural reading and "beat" my blood pressure exam in a couple of days.