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Originally Posted by nextstep_butwhat
Out of curiosity, have you ever done the rapid fire question game with anyone?
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No.
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Originally Posted by nextstep_butwhat
Why I ask if you've played it is because if you have a tendency to overthink questions before being able to respond, maybe if you answer with that first gut instinct before the overthinking can begin than you could avoid some of the difficulties?
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I know that you are trying to help, and I sincerely appreciate that. However, in an effort to practice self care and be kind to myself, I try to point out, at moments like this, that there isn't a standard for the correct amount of thinking. What one person calls 'overthinking', someone else might call 'underthinking'. While I don't believe for a moment that you were trying to do so, I've been shamed, ridiculed, bullied, and beat for what others call over-thinking and I kind of resist the label.
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Originally Posted by nextstep_butwhat
If you haven't played that rapid fire question game I wonder how you would do with it. It could perhaps be something worthwhile trying, just to see if it is possible.
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I don't know, but I suspect that two things would happen that might not happen to other folks. On some of the questions I would simply freeze because I don't understand the question. An example that comes to mind is, "How do you feel?" My first response when I came up with the question was, "Touch". Then the realization that that was too literal. Then the question: "Wait, do they mean physically or emotionally?" The second thing would be that I would answer like I answered my doctor described in a post three before this one: "What brings you in today?" and "My car."