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If, despite your preparation, someone comes at you from an angle you didn't expect, remember this simple rule: It's not the question that matters but the questioner's intent.
Often the question is challenging but the questioner's intent is benign.
The trick is to distinguish the hostile ones from the genuine but clumsy ones, because the clumsy question might really be the questioner's way of asking to get to know you better or could just be motivated by a mixture of anxiety and ignorance.
"This statement and the act of moving away from the original by creating a discussion about your perception of the question's 'quality'" are key to redirecting the questioner's attention.
Notably, the majority of courts side-stepped the question of children's "purpose," focusing more on the questioner's intent and the particular (law enforcement or not) context.
In a podcast, or in a column, there's an intimacy and vulnerability on my part and the questioner's part.
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