being asked to solve problems that are unsolvable, or being expected to do tasks beyond their developmental capability can all lead to a level of disorientation where the child is left frozen and unclear whether to move up or down, right or left. They are damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
This is similar to being in an argument with a girlfriend, may even be Kim/wife, when I am asked to respond to her words and have no idea what to say. I am so afraid in this moment, yet I am frozen.
