Yeah, this too. Speaking as an 8, I'd rather not have "high status" because that just means more people know of me and thus more people who could potentially try to stop me literally just because of that status

Even though 8 is typically associated more-so with extroverted types; we really don't tend to be socially extroverted and in turn don't care much for our or others' status.

3 is also associated with extroverts because they actually are socially extroverted and do at their seek status.

I see a lot of people mistake 8s for 3s and vice versa. I do get why, but they are fundamentally different in that 8s don't care what others think of them and 3s care immensely. Generally speaking, of course; there's always a degree of variation.

I see a lot of people mistake 8s for 3s and vice versa. I do get why, but they are fundamentally different in that 8s don't care what others think of them and 3s care immensely. Generally speaking, of course; there's always a degree of variation.

It's rare for highly stereotypical interactions to happen, but, to be honest, in those rare moment it does feel as though I should have seen it coming.

Generally speaking, operating off of stereotypes instead of what the person is actually like is still a terrible idea though.

It always is fascinating to hear what others' perspectives are on various typing systems. I have tendency to get stuck or just have a very black and black "it's this or wrong" mentally, so I love it when I get hit over the head with hammer basically, be it directly/intentionally or not.

I do find it odd that the Big 5 Traits system is less known/used than more complicated typing systems. Really the only ones of that lot that makes sense to me being more well known are Enneagram because it's old and MBTI because of the 16 Personalities marketing/workplace usage.

I remember once I was asked if ASD could be impacting one's type and...no? It's just one's personality categorized. Certainly, in a neurotypical-dominated world, it would affect the typing process, but not what a person's type is. The most it would is ND people having a bias towards being certain types; much like how NT people also have a bias towards being certain types.

I wonder if there will ever be a day where typing people is reliably accurate enough to have any kind of practical use.

Sometimes I wonder just how different enneagram would be if any type could a wing instead of the immediately adjacent ones.

Like what would a 5w1 look like? 2w7?

I don't know; enneagram just kind of bugs me with how restrictive it can be. I guess the point of tritypes is to fix that.

I use so much Ti that it's pretty obvious to me that I'm a xxTP of some kind, but sometimes I wonder if I'm actually an ENTP instead of ESTP. Granted, that might just be because a sadly high amount of people in the MBTI community see Sensors as incapable of thinking about different options. I do like to just sit and sift through tons of different ideas, but I kind of feel like that's just my Ti trying to figure everything out. I'm also way too focused on what I definitively know is real, and, unless there's nothing going on, I don't care much for the theoretical. I could easily see myself having inferior Si though. I'm not one for comparisons or traditions at all.

Welcome to the ramble dome!

I've noticed that most of the people I see/find talking about typology are of completely different types. This blog is here to add my types' voices to the discussions around typology.

The type systems I'm most familiar with are MBTI, enneagram, Big 5 (SLOAN), attitudinal psyche, and the 4 temperaments. I have a general idea of tritypes, socionics, instinctual variants and classic Jungian.

I don't buy impossible type combinations, because people are far too varied, dynamic and, at times, contradictory for that to ever make sense to me.

Feel free to disagree with me on anything about types I say. Disagreement and discussion is what prevents echo chambers from forming. Hell, if you think I've typed myself wrong in any system; tell me. I'd love to hear it!

I have no idea how often I'll post nor how exactly I'll do it, but eh I'll figure it out.

For now, I'll leave my askbox and messages open, but will close either as I see fit.