I haven't said this in years, but please would you help with my (CBT) homework?

These therapies are designed by NTs, for NTs. They are in no way reflective of the way that we think, read or respond to situations. It's all very well saying to, for instance, Longman, that in that situation you could have done xyz abc etc, this is, after all, the basis for social stories, but remembering to relate a theoretical situation discussed in the calm of a non-threatening place with a real-life scenario is vastly different. This is one of many instances where NTs don't, and cannot, 'get it'. The false premise is that we can change the way we think - you might as well say that we can train NTs to think, feel and react the same way that we do. Preposterous.

So, going back to the original questions:-

1. I'd feel threatened, isolated, alone and confused. I'd be astonished by the rudeness, and I'd be bewildered, totally.

2. I'd stand there paralysed whilst my head ran through all of this confusion. My adrenalin levels soaring, I'd end up trembling, legs weak, heart pounding. I'd probably end up punching the guy if I had no escape route.

3. If you're feeling helpless and upset, that would be perfectly reasonable. Most of that would come from your physiological response anyway, and you'd have no control over that whatsoever.

4. I wouldn't 'come down' from that, it would lodge in my memory and I'd keep replaying the situation over and over, I'd imagine different ways that it could have gone, and then I would conclude that we'd be better off killing all NTs so that we don't have this sort of crap in our lives all the time. It would disturb me hugely, I'd certainly lose sleep because the episode would be lodged in my head like a recording loop that won't stop playing.

It's easy to be a smart***e about these things when you're detached from them. I love theroeticians who sit there saying 'you should have, could have...' but none of that matters at the time.

Pardon me if I use a flying analogy - this is within my experience. It's easy to sit on the ground and theorise about what you'd do if an aileron broke in mid-air, but it would be vastly different if you were up there and one broke, because your first thought would be 'this has gone beyond my ability to control it' although actually your only thought would be '[removed by mod] Bail Out!'.

And you would...

Once you're back safely on the ground, you'll hear all sorts of theories from smarties about what you could have done, but it's altogether a different matter once you're safely on the ground and the wreck of your glider is lying in a field without you dead in the cockpit. And my view would be 'I'm here to discuss it, so above all I did the right thing for me'. And that's the point, really.

These therapies are designed by NTs, for NTs. They are in no way reflective of the way that we think, read or respond to situations. It's all very well saying to, for instance, Longman, that in that situation you could have done xyz abc etc, this is, after all, the basis for social stories, but remembering to relate a theoretical situation discussed in the calm of a non-threatening place with a real-life scenario is vastly different. This is one of many instances where NTs don't, and cannot, 'get it'. The false premise is that we can change the way we think - you might as well say that we can train NTs to think, feel and react the same way that we do. Preposterous.

So, going back to the original questions:-

1. I'd feel threatened, isolated, alone and confused. I'd be astonished by the rudeness, and I'd be bewildered, totally.

2. I'd stand there paralysed whilst my head ran through all of this confusion. My adrenalin levels soaring, I'd end up trembling, legs weak, heart pounding. I'd probably end up punching the guy if I had no escape route.

3. If you're feeling helpless and upset, that would be perfectly reasonable. Most of that would come from your physiological response anyway, and you'd have no control over that whatsoever.

4. I wouldn't 'come down' from that, it would lodge in my memory and I'd keep replaying the situation over and over, I'd imagine different ways that it could have gone, and then I would conclude that we'd be better off killing all NTs so that we don't have this sort of crap in our lives all the time. It would disturb me hugely, I'd certainly lose sleep because the episode would be lodged in my head like a recording loop that won't stop playing.

It's easy to be a smart***e about these things when you're detached from them. I love theroeticians who sit there saying 'you should have, could have...' but none of that matters at the time.

Pardon me if I use a flying analogy - this is within my experience. It's easy to sit on the ground and theorise about what you'd do if an aileron broke in mid-air, but it would be vastly different if you were up there and one broke, because your first thought would be 'this has gone beyond my ability to control it' although actually your only thought would be '[removed by mod] Bail Out!'.

And you would...

Once you're back safely on the ground, you'll hear all sorts of theories from smarties about what you could have done, but it's altogether a different matter once you're safely on the ground and the wreck of your glider is lying in a field without you dead in the cockpit. And my view would be 'I'm here to discuss it, so above all I did the right thing for me'. And that's the point, really.