Have any of you taken a ink blot test

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I did for the ados and it was both silly and fun. What do you think of them?

i only see inkblots...seriously...i even TRIED to see something else....but i only see inkblots...shrugs*

Yes. Twicew as a kid and once inmy adult years. I never got the result, though. (annoying). I saw things like insects, butterflies, snails. The only aggressive thing, I saw was two sockerplayers kicking the same ball.
I have no idea, how it was interpreted.

I did yesterday.
On some I saw 3-D structures out of two perspectives, smoke development and movement.
I had a hard time explaining it well and the assessor said at one point, that she got confused from what I said, but then I remembered myself "you are autistic, Eloa, she does not see it through your eyes, give better effort" and I managed to explain better.
Later I goggled the test and I was surprised of the common answers people give like "vase" and "animal fur" (except for the "bat") and "two human faces".

I was given the ink blot test a number of times, decades ago when I was a child. All I ever really saw were ink blots, so I made up stuff to satisfy the testers. It was dumb. In retrospect, I think it takes more creativity to make up stuff to tell the testers, than it would to actually see stuff in the blots. Wish that thought had occurred to me back then. It would have been an ego booster at a time when I really needed one.

I gave answers like "Picasso" and "Dali". The examiners got frustrated and moved on to the word-association tests.

I've taken many inkblot tests.

Usually, I see insects, monsters, human digestive systems, stuff like that.

During my diagnosis, I was given the Rorschach Test. According to my diagnostic report, this test yields information on coping skills, emotional experience, emotional control, self-image and interpersonal relations. I was also told that this can be used to measure for the presence of a Personality Disorder (which I had asked to be assessed for).

I wish I had recorded my ~ 45 minute session. The psychologist kept on asking me questions, and I kept on finding new/interesting things within each inkblot.

So, maybe you didn't see the two wizards -- one good and another evil -- fighting at the top of the world. Or the two pieces of friend shrimp. It's amazing what you can see, if you look. It’s the same thing when looking at clouds. It’s sort of fun.

Interestingly, my current therapist indicated that you can also use this test to detect, "persistent preoccupation with parts of objects", which is listed in DSM-IV under "Restricted repetitive & stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests and activities".

I must say, I find this stuff quite fascinating.