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What's your predominant personality style?
Suspicious 8%  8%  [ 8 ]
Eccentric 13%  13%  [ 14 ]
Detached 23%  23%  [ 24 ]
Rebellious 7%  7%  [ 7 ]
Fickle 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
Social 2%  2%  [ 2 ]
Self-aggrandizing 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Sulking 2%  2%  [ 2 ]
Domineering 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Cheerful 5%  5%  [ 5 ]
Shy 14%  14%  [ 15 ]
Self-belittling 5%  5%  [ 5 ]
Perfectionistic 14%  14%  [ 15 ]
Sad 4%  4%  [ 4 ]
Martyr 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 106

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27 May 2008, 1:57 pm

I'm mainly a mixture of suspicious, detached, self-aggrandizing & perfectionistic, with a dash of some of the others. More interesting is what I'm not, though:

Suspicious: They innately distrust the intentions of others and see respect as something that must be earned. They prefer to come off as cool and objective and vocal in defense of their rights. They enjoy conspiracy theories.

Eccentric: They tend to be into New Age stuff, astrology, and alternative religion. They tend to feel a mystical spiritual presence in their life. They may feel they can commune with spirits or aliens or report visions. Their dress and manner tends to be unusual.

Detached: They are thoroughly emotionally and socially detached. They have little use for friendships or sexual relations and are not motivated by society's rewards. They are often scientists or underachievers. Many have an active imagination.

Rebellious: They have contempt for rules and authority and prefer to act on their momentary impulses. They tend to have "street smarts" and are good at handling and influencing people. They take care of their own needs first.

Fickle: They tend to experience the extremes of emotion in all its flavors. Their relationships are very important to them. Their decision making is strongly influenced by how they feel at the moment. They tend to be a bit conflicted.

Social: These people tend to be hypersocial and extraverted. They are highly emotionally demonstrative and very open about themselves. They like making others feel good and value attention and approval.

Self-aggrandizing: They are highly self-confident and often play up their talents, achievements, and abilities. They crave fame and the esteem of others and try to outcompete others to prove they deserve it. They are not very concerned with other people's needs, especially if they feel they are beneath them.

Sulking: They are staunchly independent minded but, at the same time, superficially compliant. They enjoy complaining and will withhold themselves for no other reason than to ensure they don't put out more than they get back. They have an irritable temperament and so are prone to be annoyed and upset with something or other much of the time.

Domineering: These people are not afraid to be openly contentious or even aggressive. They can be opinionated and dogmatic. They must always be in the dominant position and cannot bear to be made to be seen as weak or supplicant. They will push themselves physically or mentally to prove their mettle to themselves.

Cheerful: They are highly energetic and optimistic if impulsive. They require little sleep.

Shy: They tend to be anxious and given to worry. They are very apprehensive about whether others will like them and are easily embarrassed. They are very sensitive and have an appreciation for harmonious music and soft, soothing art.

Self-belittling: They tend to downplay their abilities and talents and so see themselves as in need of another to take care of them. They tend to be highly loyal.

Perfectionistic: These people believe that, if something is to be done, it ought to be done right. They are unswerving in their view of morality and hold others to account of it. They preoccupy themselves with details and lists.

Sad: They tend to have a low self-esteem and are frequently melancholy and pessimistic about their opportunities. They tend to need a lot of sleep.

Martyr: They tend to give much of themselves without being asked but then use this to instill guilt in others later.



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27 May 2008, 3:47 pm

I'm mostly Fickle, Suspicious, Perfectionistic, Eccentric and Detached.

Suspicious: They innately distrust the intentions of others and see respect as something that must be earned. They prefer to come off as cool and objective and vocal in defense of their rights. They enjoy conspiracy theories.

Eccentric: They tend to be into New Age stuff, astrology, and alternative religion. They tend to feel a mystical spiritual presence in their life. They may feel they can commune with spirits or aliens or report visions. Their dress and manner tends to be unusual.

Detached: They are thoroughly emotionally and socially detached. They have little use for friendships or sexual relations and are not motivated by society's rewards. They are often scientists or underachievers. Many have an active imagination.

Rebellious: They have contempt for rules and authority and prefer to act on their momentary impulses. They tend to have "street smarts" and are good at handling and influencing people. They take care of their own needs first.

Fickle: They tend to experience the extremes of emotion in all its flavors. Their relationships are very important to them. Their decision making is strongly influenced by how they feel at the moment. They tend to be a bit conflicted.

Domineering: These people are not afraid to be openly contentious or even aggressive. They can be opinionated and dogmatic. They must always be in the dominant position and cannot bear to be made to be seen as weak or supplicant. They will push themselves physically or mentally to prove their mettle to themselves.

Cheerful: They are highly energetic and optimistic if impulsive. They require little sleep.

Shy: They tend to be anxious and given to worry. They are very apprehensive about whether others will like them and are easily embarrassed. They are very sensitive and have an appreciation for harmonious music and soft, soothing art.

Self-belittling: They tend to downplay their abilities and talents and so see themselves as in need of another to take care of them. They tend to be highly loyal.

Perfectionistic: These people believe that, if something is to be done, it ought to be done right. They are unswerving in their view of morality and hold others to account of it. They preoccupy themselves with details and lists.

Sad: They tend to have a low self-esteem and are frequently melancholy and pessimistic about their opportunities. They tend to need a lot of sleep.


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17 Sep 2009, 3:20 pm

Honesty right now I feel like I do not have a personality. I recently learned that I have aspergers and some parts of me are relieved and maybe happy but the downside is that I believe my whole life has been just an intricate web of cleverly designed coping mechanisms subconciously put in place by my brain.



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17 Sep 2009, 3:33 pm

None else fickle? :?



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17 Sep 2009, 3:47 pm

Fickle
Shy
Self-Belittling

I voted fickle


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17 Sep 2009, 3:51 pm

Fickle, definitely. Also shy & perfectionistic.


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17 Sep 2009, 4:31 pm

I'm mostly suspicious, fickle and shy, but I can see some of my personality in many of the types you listed.



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17 Sep 2009, 4:54 pm

I'm self-belittling and suspicious. A tad eccentric in that I am big into the supernatural.


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17 Sep 2009, 5:29 pm

I'm not really sure how to realistically identify my personality style though, I'll do my best in that often in many people's eyes I've often seen as being downhearted,disenchanted,sad,.. However, I'll state for the record despite having a history of depressive-related difficulites I do my utmost best to not make others feel unpleasant though in a most honest related manner of saying such.. Personally, I'll admit that with many year of social problems here and there one would think my personality would probably have more darker tone yet, I still hold onto the notion that there is good people residing in the world overall... I don't want anyone to think I'm the Darth Vader of the WP world as such..

I don't have much else to offer at this moment..



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17 Sep 2009, 5:42 pm

anbuend wrote:
Just because it's based on personality disorders doesn't make it scientific. I have little bits of traits described here and there but none of the categories jump out at me as being me in some way. I've bolded the parts that seem to apply particularly to my life (or to my life large chunks of the time anyway, given that nothing's an absolute).

I really doubt this is any more scientific than the MBTI.


Agreed. I like the MBTI and feel it has something real and useful to offer me. These options seemed arbitrary, random, limiting and stereotyped. I didn't fit into any completely, just little bits. The fickle one suited me a bit I guess but even then it hardly epitomises who I am, it's one small facet.



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18 Sep 2009, 2:22 pm

zen_mistress wrote:
Many of these words are negative and point more to coping mechanisms than a person's true personality

But for me it would be:

- Social
- Detached
- Self-Belittling
- Cheerful


Yeah, I was gonna say.. I mean, damn. XD;; I had to pick self-belittling because it's the only thing that sounded remotely like me. (Well, the way I act IRL.) Without the weird descriptions, I would have thought cheerful and shy were my things. Nice simple words, cheerful and shy. There are a lot of different ways in which to be them, usually.


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18 Sep 2009, 2:45 pm

Sometimes rebellious, shy, self-belittling or sad. But mainly eccentric.


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18 Sep 2009, 5:01 pm

Self belittling eccentric :wink:



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21 Aug 2010, 4:48 pm

The only way to describe me is ''Sulking''. All I do is complain about everything. And I sulk all the time. Even if the day is going as planned, and as perfectly and predictable as can be - I still find something to complain or sulk about.

Like my Nan says - ''I don't know how good I've got it until it's gone''. Couldn't be more true for me.



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21 Aug 2010, 5:04 pm

I am Detached Perfectionist who tends to be Sad or Domineering.


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21 Aug 2010, 5:35 pm

Suspicious and shy sound like me. Maybe a bit of domineering with my siblings and mom since that was the way I was growing up as the oldest.