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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have absolutely no idea what you would do in this situation. Nobody knows what they’d do in a situation like this until you’re in it. It’s a fight/flight response to trauma that’s innate and although you would like to think you’d respond a certain way, you truly have absolutely no idea until you’re in it. [/quote]

This has to be a man responding [/quote]

NP, I am a woman and this is absolutely true. People’s reactions to violent, surprising encounters are as variable as the attacks. Our minds do instantaneous mental calculations of survival and oftentimes freeze is the response—-it’s a biological reaction.

Unless you’ve been training self-defense regularly and practiced feeling and resisting that freeze response, you can’t say with certainty what you might do when surprised by an intruder with a gun in the middle of the night. Even if you HAVE trained for years to respond, you STILL might freeze.[/quote]

Agreed, the fact that people think they know exactly what they would do just shows a lack of knowledge about trauma and how it works. Many, many people freeze in the face of a fight/flight situation and there is nothing you can do about it - no mother instinct can override that if it's how your particular brain happens to respond to that level of stress. Unless you have been in a situation as dire as this you can't predict the calculations your brain might make in the 3 seconds it has to make a decision with very little information.

It's way easier in hindsight to say oh I would have done this and it's "suspicious" if someone did something else. You have much more information now than the person does at the time. [/quote]

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