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Re:Observations from People Watching by alpaca128 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @07:21AM (#43953019)
> Psychologists and experienced authors intuitively understand people

I interacted with at least 7 psychotherapists (one of them is a relative) and a whole bunch of other specialists in the field. It took three decades and a push from my side for someone to even figure out that something about me was kind of strange.

Yes, experts can recognize patterns. But that has limits & biases, and tends to be unreliable for outliers. And when that person doesn't even check their results all bets are off.

Re:Observations from People Watching by ashirviskas on Sunday May 11, 2025 @07:39AM (#43953100)
I'm sorry to intrude, but this interests me very much. What was the thing that you wanted figured out about you that gave surch hard time for psychotherapists?