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Old Oct 31, 2011, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by CantExplain View Post
Oho! A challenge about challenges! Or were you making a joke?
An interesting response, CantExplain, most people would see it as a question to get more information from you so their responses could be more helpful?

I was like that; I was so use to my stepmother questioning everything I did and asking me questions for which I had no answers back then ("Why did you do that?" :-) in an angry fashion that when my T would ask me a simple question, "What do you consider a challenge?" I would see it in the same way as "Why did you do that?" (said in a way that implied I'd done something wrong or stupid) and think my T was questioning my idea of what was challenging, would not find it challenging "enough" or would say my idea of a challenge was not really what a challenge was, etc. I had not learned to differentiate between a "challenge" and a simple question from another who wanted to know me better, know more about how I thought/felt and was interested in me and helping me learn and grow.

Too, what happens if you are challenged by another? Theoretically you know who you are and what you are doing and why? So, another questioning it doesn't really matter. You are doing what you are doing for your reasons and because you think it best at this time. There may be other ways of doing something, even better ways and maybe you will learn how to do whatever those ways but right now, you have decided that you'll do it this way! If you are doing the best you can, that's all you can do! Other people's expectations of how you should be don't count.
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