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How would you type me as a child?

Kiddo

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While looking for some medical information today, I stumbled on some social worker evaluations and letters that provided descriptions of me as a child during my elementary years. Based on these, what would you type me as?

"Constantly talkative to the point of getting on people's nerves"
"Academic overachiever and struggles with behavioral skills"
"A day-dreamer and "wandering" person"
"Superior artistic ability"
"A forgiving person"
"Converses with good humor and wit"
"Has an attitude which leads to an inability to listen to differing opinions"
"Tendency toward high anxiety and self-blame"
"Highly motivated student"

Some of those are so unlike me now and others ring true even today as an adult.
 

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I am confused by your social worker's descriptions how can a child be too talkative and yet daydream too much.

I was constantly daydreaming as a child and the complaint was that I was "too quiet" and withdrawn.
 

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I am confused by your social worker's descriptions how can a child be too talkative and yet daydream too much.

I was constantly daydreaming as a child and the complaint was that I was "too quiet" and withdrawn.

I guess I was a talkative daydreamer. I dunno. I confirmed what she said with my mother and grandmother. Why would daydreaming and talking be mutually exclusive?
 

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I am confused by your social worker's descriptions how can a child be too talkative and yet daydream too much.
Maybe it's split 50/50. None of the time is spent listening to the teacher, but then, it says highly motivated student...
 

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Maybe they had a set number of places on the page to fill in with traits.
 

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So based on those traits, how would you have typed me? :huh:

I wouldn't want to say because I feel like those traits are all over the place and I don't know how accurate they are. The very way they contridict each other makes me distrust them for accuracy. :unsure:
 

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I wouldn't want to say because I feel like those traits are all over the place and I don't know how accurate they are. The very way they contridict each other makes me distrust them for accuracy. :unsure:

Interesting. Other than the daydreaming comment, what else contradicts? :huh:
 

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* how were those comments derived? From observing you across x days, or in a certain setting? How familiar with the assessors with you?

I'd not necessarily say contradict, but the rationale for the comments would be crucial, since a lot are open to intepretation.

E.g. someone who's a dreamer but nervous could become very chatty, if he is anxious to be liked/be accepted, and struggling with expression (behavioural skills lacking).

Have I ever seen your handwriting, Kiddo? So far the few INFJs I have seen have shown an extreme degree of guardedness in theirs, for want of a better word. I'm wondering if yours is the same?
 

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* how were those comments derived? From observing you across x days, or in a certain setting? How familiar with the assessors with you?

I honestly don't know. I didn't even know they existed until today. It looks like a combination of teacher observations, notes from counseling appointment I had with the school counselor, and interviews they had with my mother.

I'd not necessarily say contradict, but the rationale for the comments would be crucial, since a lot are open to intepretation.

E.g. someone who's a dreamer but nervous could become very chatty, if he is anxious to be liked/be accepted, and struggling with expression (behavioural skills lacking).

Ah, that is a good point.

Have I ever seen your handwriting, Kiddo? So far the few INFJs I have seen have shown an extreme degree of guardedness in theirs, for want of a better word. I'm wondering if yours is the same?

My handwriting looks like chicken scratches.
 

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looking back, what stays and what has changed? How'd you type yourself as a child?
 

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that answers all the questions, certainly. :rofl1: Now or then? :devil:

Alright, rephrase.

What traits as a child have you kept till today, and what traits would you say have changed.
 

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"Constantly talkative to the point of getting on people's nerves"

Only in one on one conversations, and usually only when I get excited about what we are discussing.

"Academic overachiever and struggles with behavioral skills"

That has certainly changed.

"A day-dreamer and "wandering" person"

Same.

"Superior artistic ability"

Haven't done anyting artistic in years.

"A forgiving person"

Same, but not as much as I used to be.

"Converses with good humor and wit"

Oh, I totally wish I had that skill as an adult. :cry:

"Has an attitude which leads to an inability to listen to differing opinions"

:whistling: I admit nothing.

"Tendency toward high anxiety and self-blame"

Yup, still stuck with this one I'm afraid.

"Highly motivated student"

Maybe then, not now. :doh:
 

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"Constantly talkative to the point of getting on people's nerves"
"Academic overachiever and struggles with behavioral skills"
"A day-dreamer and "wandering" person"
"Superior artistic ability"
"A forgiving person"
"Converses with good humor and wit"
"Has an attitude which leads to an inability to listen to differing opinions"
"Tendency toward high anxiety and self-blame"
"Highly motivated student"

That sounds so much like me when I was small... :shock:

I think I'll still stick with NFJ...
 

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Only in one on one conversations, and usually only when I get excited about what we are discussing.

Or stuck on a point? :whistling:

"Academic overachiever and struggles with behavioral skills"

That has certainly changed.

But would this be because your priorities or motivations have simply changed? Also, no longer a behavior problem child? :D


"A day-dreamer and "wandering" person"

Same.

A wandering person means an inability to focus and choose? Or desire to explore? One is positive, the other could be detrimental, no?

"A forgiving person"

Same, but not as much as I used to be.

Are you more content with yourself this way?

"Converses with good humor and wit"

Oh, I totally wish I had that skill as an adult. :cry:

Why would you say you lack that now?

"Has an attitude which leads to an inability to listen to differing opinions"

:whistling: I admit nothing.

The INTJs would have something to say here. :whistling: Do you think maybe the former point is the result of the latter?

"Tendency toward high anxiety and self-blame"

Yup, still stuck with this one I'm afraid.

highstrung huh...

"Highly motivated student"

Maybe then, not now. :doh:

:D At least you started with good intentions.
 

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I'd agree, you look like a textbook ENFP. The child prodigy archetype. Something you'd see in a movie.
 
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