The "Draw Your Family" Test

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I remember how I used to do on those test. I would always do some really weird thing that would keep them guessing. For instance one time I was asked to draw a person and I just drew the lower half of a man. Another time I was asked to draw a house and I gave it eyes and legs. I think some of them enjoyed me too much so they wanted to keep seeing me. I got diagnosed with just about everything under the sun. When I finally got diagnosed with PDD is when I finally learned what to say to the shrink to make him bored with me instead of interested.

I wish I knew this trick, so I could fool my therapist back then (I was 13 at the time). But the internet didn't exist yet, so I couldn't research the tests ahead of time, although this probably worked out to her benefit. If I knew in advance, I'd probably draw a stereotypical happy family: myself, my mom, and my dad all holding hands, while standing under a rainbow or in a garden. That would fool her into believing that everything in OK. After all, the technology to read minds still hasn't been invented.