Totally Pissed

Went to the assigned psychologist for the Florida Vocational Rehab office yesterday. He was complete crap.

First off, I tried to confirm that I wouldn’t be paying any out of pocket expenses for this visit with the VR office. They never called me back.

Secondly, the guy was a general psychologist, when I needed a specialist, preferably a neuropsychiatrist. At least someone who was familiar with ASD at all!

Thirdly, the guy assumed that because I had a very small amount of friends, I was not on the autism spectrum. There was no asking about how I worked my ass off to get up the courage to make them and keep them.

The guy assumed that because I had one boyfriend for a short time at the very end of high school that I was not on the autism spectrum. I broke up with Denny after a couple months because it was just too weird being close to another person, but he never asked me to elaborate.

I’m sitting on the couch in his office stimming, because it is a new area and I’m not used to it so go ahead OPEN THE DAMN WINDOW! MAKE IT LOUDER IN THERE! “It’s just anxiety, you’ll get over it.”

He did not ask me about interests. He dismissed my claims that I could not touch goopy/slimy/sticky stuff without physically recoiling. He blew off my not talking till I was 4, cause I ‘just didn’t feel like it’ back then.

I tried to tell him about my interest in rocks and minerals, but I could not possibly be autistic because I channeled that interest into a competition. I collect knowledge on them, I don’t collect the rocks themselves, for the most part. Florida is not geologically rich, you know. I have two cases of different mineral examples that Mom got me when we went to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, my flint, and my different limestone examples and that’s it.

And then, when I blew him away on the learning tests, he got pissed off at me. I should not have been able to deal so quickly with the arranging. And he complained that I was over thinking things. When you have to pick out the set of flowers that go with the rest of the group, I picked the only non-orchid, because, you know, the group I was trying to match it with were all non-orchids. No. The answer was the orchid picture with three blossoms. To that I say, WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK!

Today was not a good day.

NEW HUNGER GAMES TRAILER!

While I was off picking up my newly fixed phone, Yahoo! released an exclusve trailer for the hunger games. Well, not exclusive its gonna be on the superbowl. But for now it's an exclusive.

Guy on the comments of Yahoo was wondering why Katniss gave the mockingjay pin to Prim and I gave him a couple of my own theories:

1.  Madge isn't in the movie.
2.  Adds irony with the 'nothing bad will happen to you' considering what happens in Mockingjay.
3.  Allows the symbolism to transform in moviespeak throughout all four of the movies. From movie 1 where it is obviously a family symbol of Katniss/Prim devotion to 'Girl on Fire' to the rebellion as a whole.

Also was looking at the trailer and when Katniss volunteers there is an excellent WTF face by the left-hand peacekeeper.

 

You can just tell by his expression he ain't seen this happen before.