Do you handle emergencies well?

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When my older sister fell and got hurt I went to the hospital and my first thought was what if she's paralyzed for life (Hey got to love being literal no nice thoughts here LOL!) I went and smiled and after she was feeling better I went and saw her in the room. Another incident my little sister busted her lip open and it was bleeding and I was panicky. So how do you handle emergency situations?

For some reason I am the cool one. I look at it and decide on actions. Unfortunately my actions can be a bit out of proportion, but I stay calm and am a leader. That is what other people say, in my opinion I am a bit panicky, but maybe that is only on the inside. There were some people stating that I was to cold toward victims, but they were happy that I made decisions.

I'm funny. When I have to do something simple such as answer the phone, I can fall to pieces and become a nervous wreck. Yet the few times when an emergency has risen in the past, I didn't panic and did what needed to be done.


I seem to sweat the small stuff, but not the big things.

I'm what you would call overly prepared b/c of stuff that's happened to myself & my friends in the past...

When my dad called me on the phone to tell me my brother was in a car wreck, I asked if he was alright and what happened. My dad said he was fine and he was in the hospital with bumps and bruises. I felt better. I was concerned at first when he told me he was in a car wreck and I asked what happened and how did it happen and why it happened and then I asked if my brother was alive or dead. Then I was like "Okay good nothing to worry about" because he was alive and will be all right.

I just flipped out over the fact that I'm going to flunk economics.

My husband has said I flip out over little things.

I'm usually calm and quickly think of a solution, but then I just stand there and look at the situation absent-mindedly.

A few days ago my neighbour was lying on the stairs in our appartment building, he was clearly drunk and dissoriented. So I took out my cellphone to call an ambulance but then I put my phone back in my pocket and went to get my mom. Then I sat down and started up my computer.

Don't ask me why I did that, I don't know, there weren't any thoughts going through my mind as it happend.

I get really nervous over small stuff, but am somehow calm during emergencies.

I get really nervous over small stuff, but am somehow calm during emergencies.

i have a fairly logical and solutions-based approach to emergencies.

I was calm and making the decisions in the emergency situations I have been in. I assess the situation (without really taking it in) and do whatever seems necessary.

So far I've been able to handle emergencies well enough. The longest lasting situation was last July.
I received a call from my stepmother that my dad was very ill, and she needed someone to go and look after their horses and such.
Two days later, I was on a plane with my daughter and cat, and ended up staying at the farm for a month.
My dad died, and then my stepmother flipped out at me about something very small, but I found I was able to handle the high stress and looking after six horses pretty well, but I know that after more than a month, I would start going to pieces and making bad mistakes. I was starting to get into the inability when my stepmother kept piling more and more on my shoulders, then got angry when I couldn't follow through.
It was a huge responsibility looking after these horses, and my stepmother said I did really well for the whole month she was away with my dad at the hospital, but that's what fools people into thinking I'm actually normal, and then they can't understand why suddenly one day I cannot function. They must think people on the spectrum are either unable to do anything at all, or they can do things when they want to.

Strangely enough, I can deal with all sorts of difficulties-- except when it comes to dealing with people. When others freak out, I get rattled.

There's nothing I can do about it, either. So, I've accepted my limitations. It's just that other people couldn't accept them...

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