Meaning of Your Communication
I like to find instances wherein the NLP Presuppositions come in to play in Real Life.
Recently, there was a patient in the Emergency Department who was there for psychiatric issues. I’d seen him there a lot; he is what we often call a “frequent flyer”. I noticed a raw spot on his skin and asked him what had happened. “A dog bit me”, he said.
I wondered if the dog was rabid or otherwise sick… could the bite do him harm? So I asked, “Is the dog all right?”
The patient and the rest of the staff in the room started chuckling, and he looked at me kind of sideways, like I’d made a joke. “I don’t care about the fucking dog!”
I realized what they thought I’d done, and I had to laugh too.