I always had trouble/felt "challenged" when T asked a question! My stepmother was a master at asking rhetorical/double-bind questions and it took me a long time to differentiate between "true"/caring questions and the ugly kind.

I smoothed the way on "understanding" a lot of things in therapy when I realized how much I used and valued my imagination, creativity, good humor, etc. I like experimenting and seeing how things work for "me" so challenges fell right into that. A great many of what I had thought were "bad" symptoms turned out to be rather clever, well-honed tools.