Many, particularly regarding forum lore that builds up. I don’t feel like mentioning all of it here just now; I'll do it later if I remember.
A couple of things people have said to me, personally, have gotten to me though.
I once had someone try to tell me I was too “wistful†to be an 8. I know I’m expected to be a monolithic unfeeling sub-human (I demand this from myself if nothing else) but that’s just silly. I write my innermost thoughts on these forums, many of which are very sad. I don’t consider it “vulnerable†or anything to share this on these anonymous forums in the name of science. I don’t necessarily want people hearing this stuff about me irl, but mental health issues are one theme in my life, and why lie about it here? Katherine Fauvre even wrote something within the last couple of years about how gut types (yes, including 8s) have a deep sadness to them, a sorrowful pining that can resemble 4ishness. Idk what else to say about it, except that this is true. Sorry if that ruins anyone's ideal of what constitutes the 8-Gods.
More importantly, the idea that Eights are always assholes. One guy on Reddit was adamant that I was too “polite†and “reasonable†to be an 8. He thought because I wasn’t being high-handed in discussion, abusing him, and writing in caps I couldn’t possibly be an 8. Mind you, this individual also *literally* thought enneagram was a list of adjectives you can check off lol. There’s the distinct impression (that I once held myself) that 8s are necessarily going to abuse/degrade/pick fights with you on sight. People are afraid to interact with you. I will say I’ve had a number of encounters with moronic 8s on enneagram forums that tend to enforce that opinion…but not EVERYONE is like this. Some of us actually listen to what enneagram tells us about ourselves.
A third one is 8s being unintelligent. For some reason, because Naranjo states that 8s are archetypally “anti-intellectualâ€, this means that 8s (even the NTs--not that I'm implying NTs are smarter yadda yadda) are expected to be real simpletons who can’t use complex language or be interested in enneagram. Someone on this very forum a) typed me as an 8 because he hated 8s, and he hated me, so therefore I was an 8; and b) tried to tell me that “theory isn’t an 8’s forte†(implying 8s don't have the mental powers necessary to understand the enneagram, so my ideas could be discarded). I mean wtf. The irony. Sorry guys, this isn't what Naranjo meant.