(Note: As has been mentioned on my profile for a long time, I am
polyamorous. I am seeing one person in a lovely but
not-life-building relationship, and have a couple more casual
situations as well. If the term polyamory is new to you, there are
several excellent web pages on that relationship style.)
(Also: I have recently erased my answers to all of my questions in an effort to answer them in a less outdated fashion.)
The client is a casually but cleanly dressed, Rubenesque bisexual polyamorous Jewish American woman who appears younger than her stated age of 36. She fidgets in her chair for the majority of the self-summary, switching between resting both feet on the base of the rolling chair while leaning slightly forward, resting one ankle on the knee of the other more traditionally positioned leg, or sitting in half-lotus. Her eyes shift focus between the screen and the keyboard as she types, her brow slightly furrowed as though squinting. When she speaks to others her eye contact is consistent which, along with the forward tilt of her body and the appropriately expressive variance of her facial expression, lends towards an impression of a warm and lively person. Her speech tends towards rapidity, especially when perceived to be excited or anxious, and she gestures with her hands as she speaks. Occasionally she seems to become unaware of her volume, becoming slightly louder until she realizes the difference in volume between herself and others, whereupon she quiets herself again.
The client's predominant mood is content or, as she expresses it, "all right," but her affect varies appropriately between joy, sadness, fear, anger and others as she speaks about different topics. When fatigued or self-protecting her affect loses variance, along with a shift to less pronounced facial expressions and lessened eye contact, as though she is too drained to maintain such an active demeanor. She reports mild dysphoria about certain aspects of her life, but none that seem unusual for the musing of a self-reported introspective, sensitive individual, a description which holds up in this self-summary.
While she has no speech impediment, her responses to questions may seem slightly circumstantial to some, but if given time to respond she will come around to the topic at hand; she reports, "It's just hard to give a real answer to something without telling the full story." She also reports occasional difficulty keeping track of her place in a sentence, a deficit in attention or executive processing which affects her circumstantiality. At times she will switch the order of words in a sentence or elsewise say something incorrectly, but the frequency is low enough to not be considered an active concern. Her speech is rich and colloquial, smattered with unique phrasings that, according to her, pepper the speech of many people in the group to which she reports belonging, that of "geek culture."
The client reports mild vision and hearing problems, the latter affected by a diagnosis of TMJ. While she sees well enough to pass a driver's exam without glasses and can read, she reports her visual acuity as lower than many, making recreational reading difficult. At times she will ask those speaking to her to repeat themselves, again more a matter of acuity and less a matter of overall hearing. She is oriented x 3 and is of moderately higher intelligence than average. Her capacity for concentration appears to be within typical ranges, but her memory functioning is lower than average. Her judgment seems average to higher than average, with a high degree of insight. She is overall bright, creative, warm and expressive, quite capable of empathy, whose primary concern is that she is more prone to feel taxed than she feels she ought to.
(Bonus points for anyone who knows where this format comes from.)
I am effervescent, introspective, and enchanting
(Also: I have recently erased my answers to all of my questions in an effort to answer them in a less outdated fashion.)
The client is a casually but cleanly dressed, Rubenesque bisexual polyamorous Jewish American woman who appears younger than her stated age of 36. She fidgets in her chair for the majority of the self-summary, switching between resting both feet on the base of the rolling chair while leaning slightly forward, resting one ankle on the knee of the other more traditionally positioned leg, or sitting in half-lotus. Her eyes shift focus between the screen and the keyboard as she types, her brow slightly furrowed as though squinting. When she speaks to others her eye contact is consistent which, along with the forward tilt of her body and the appropriately expressive variance of her facial expression, lends towards an impression of a warm and lively person. Her speech tends towards rapidity, especially when perceived to be excited or anxious, and she gestures with her hands as she speaks. Occasionally she seems to become unaware of her volume, becoming slightly louder until she realizes the difference in volume between herself and others, whereupon she quiets herself again.
The client's predominant mood is content or, as she expresses it, "all right," but her affect varies appropriately between joy, sadness, fear, anger and others as she speaks about different topics. When fatigued or self-protecting her affect loses variance, along with a shift to less pronounced facial expressions and lessened eye contact, as though she is too drained to maintain such an active demeanor. She reports mild dysphoria about certain aspects of her life, but none that seem unusual for the musing of a self-reported introspective, sensitive individual, a description which holds up in this self-summary.
While she has no speech impediment, her responses to questions may seem slightly circumstantial to some, but if given time to respond she will come around to the topic at hand; she reports, "It's just hard to give a real answer to something without telling the full story." She also reports occasional difficulty keeping track of her place in a sentence, a deficit in attention or executive processing which affects her circumstantiality. At times she will switch the order of words in a sentence or elsewise say something incorrectly, but the frequency is low enough to not be considered an active concern. Her speech is rich and colloquial, smattered with unique phrasings that, according to her, pepper the speech of many people in the group to which she reports belonging, that of "geek culture."
The client reports mild vision and hearing problems, the latter affected by a diagnosis of TMJ. While she sees well enough to pass a driver's exam without glasses and can read, she reports her visual acuity as lower than many, making recreational reading difficult. At times she will ask those speaking to her to repeat themselves, again more a matter of acuity and less a matter of overall hearing. She is oriented x 3 and is of moderately higher intelligence than average. Her capacity for concentration appears to be within typical ranges, but her memory functioning is lower than average. Her judgment seems average to higher than average, with a high degree of insight. She is overall bright, creative, warm and expressive, quite capable of empathy, whose primary concern is that she is more prone to feel taxed than she feels she ought to.
(Bonus points for anyone who knows where this format comes from.)
I am effervescent, introspective, and enchanting
