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So my older son is 13 and due to very poor coordination and being ADHD gets some special accomadations at school. Basically he can type papers rather than have to write them all by hand.
Every so often they redo the IQ tests and psych evals, and I had a meeting yesterday with the psychologist and teachers just to review results.
The psych's first concern was his lack of "depth". For someone of his IQ she expected him to show more intellectual depth. The example was she asked him three wishes. Instead of world peace or ending hunger, he asked for 1) the goldfish to come back to life (we never had a goldfish) 2) the cat to come back to life (car-cat interaction went badly) 3) for it to snow in Texas during the winter. I thought these were hysterically funny myself but she said they showed lack of depth.
She also said that he "doesnt understand his own emotions". She based this on the observation that whenever she asked him about things that had an emotional context he would make a joke out of them or detour the conversation around the emotional context onto something else.
I looked at her like she was a little slow, as it is obvious to me that as an ENFP, he doesnt trust her with his emotions. Why would you expose that raw Fi core to a total stranger?
Questions:
1) Is this an generic ENFP and INFP thing to do? ie hide that core away?
2) If so why are we so insecure about letting others see it?
Every so often they redo the IQ tests and psych evals, and I had a meeting yesterday with the psychologist and teachers just to review results.
The psych's first concern was his lack of "depth". For someone of his IQ she expected him to show more intellectual depth. The example was she asked him three wishes. Instead of world peace or ending hunger, he asked for 1) the goldfish to come back to life (we never had a goldfish) 2) the cat to come back to life (car-cat interaction went badly) 3) for it to snow in Texas during the winter. I thought these were hysterically funny myself but she said they showed lack of depth.
She also said that he "doesnt understand his own emotions". She based this on the observation that whenever she asked him about things that had an emotional context he would make a joke out of them or detour the conversation around the emotional context onto something else.
I looked at her like she was a little slow, as it is obvious to me that as an ENFP, he doesnt trust her with his emotions. Why would you expose that raw Fi core to a total stranger?
Questions:
1) Is this an generic ENFP and INFP thing to do? ie hide that core away?
2) If so why are we so insecure about letting others see it?