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Tantricbadass
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05 Aug 2011, 1:12 pm

I came up with this psychological hypothesis today.I was trying to figure out whether I was passive or abusive or assertive and I think about how I used to abuse people when I had meltdowns and how I have taken a lot of abuse from my family and bullies.I say that basically there is a compass of personality.(picture a diamond shape)There is the autistic corner,the psychopath corner,the conformist corner, and the insanity corner.Insanity is a pet name for this trait.It's basically about defying the norm with exhibitionism and being individualistic.It's neurotic and random.Conformistic people like to take up positions of authority to assert what they think is right.They want everyone to get along and they can't stand there being a issue without them being in it and fixing it.The autistic side is a lack of emotional understanding.It can't understand others' emotions as well as their own and they can't articulate their emotions(and metaphors) fully into many different things and this is why they develop special interests.They prefer sameness because they think anything else will take away their sense of well being.Sorry if this offends people.The psychopath side has complete objection to emotional understanding.It's like they don't care about social norms or anyone else, they make the rules and they look out for their interests.They pick on people for fun and see people as objects.The autistic might abuse those who it sees as violating his preference and it's root is assertive anger.Psychopaths don't abuse people when depressed because they do it for joy.Conformists like to be within a group re-affirming their own beliefs and mood.The insanity side understands that everyone is different and uses introspection to affirm itself and becomes often bored with it's group.Sorry if the grammar is bad.Tell me what you think?



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05 Aug 2011, 2:24 pm

I don't get it. How is this a square?

The assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive thing is a square because each are combos of different traits. Assertive and aggressive are both active (you display your feelings openly), passive and passive-aggressive are both passive (you hide your feelings). Aggressive and passive-aggressive are both aggressive, in that both involve trying to get revenge. Assertive and passive are non-aggressive.

So which two dimensions do those four categories vary on?



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05 Aug 2011, 3:22 pm

[nitpick]
The OP is more of an abstract, opinion, or proposal, rather than a hypothesis. Hypotheses can be tested. The OP offered no protocols for testing, so it is not a hypothesis
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05 Aug 2011, 5:33 pm

It's really a diamond shape in my opinion.Assertive or aggressive or passive has nothing to do with this spectrum I made.I wanted to know whether you think it's correct



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05 Aug 2011, 8:17 pm

Correct? It doesn't even make sense!