But can you really separate social phobia from the rest of your personality?
Not to be difficult, I'm just asking
If I for instance was a sociopath, could I say that I am a Feeler deep down inside, if you look away from my sociopathic tendencies?
I would think social phobia is quite integrated in who you are (although I have no personal experience with either that or sociopathy.)
(Just for the record; I'm not suggesting that social phobia and sociopathy have anything to do with eachother, except for influencing social interaction style.)
The difference is the sociopath is born that way(or at least thats what the evidence shows, there is no definitive proof either way at this time from what ive read.), those with a social phobia are not, its biological vs psychological, although social phobia can come about from a primarily Biological issue, such as my OCD which was apparent from when I was even a toddler... Plus I can recognize that my social phobia is wrong, and is NOT how I want to interact with the environment, not to mention ive been able to reduce it slightly over time, and still am...
from what I gather of Cognitive function so far, is that type is determined by the way you naturally take in and process the world around you, and how you relate to that world... (correct me if im wrong please) where as various disorders after that, are not actually part of your basic preferred cognitive functions, but act as a filter in front of them...
Like lets say you go on one of those dating websites that have you do a full profile thing, that filters users based on personality and everything like that (in this case, the other users are the "outside world" and somewhere along the line, there was a glitch, that added a whole new dimension to the filtering, that has nothing to do with your true preferences...
the results you receive would obviously be quite off, and youd probably recognize them as such eventually...
Now imagine you then recognize whats off, and try to alter it, but you dont have direct access to the code, and the developers are not answering your emails, so you are now trying to find ways around this glitch to get involved in the community there and with the people in a way that feel right, but this glitch constantly gets in your way...
And that is kind of how my social phobia has effected me... sometimes I can get around the glitch, and its totally awesome and invigorating and I feel charged up and happy about it for weeks after... sometimes the glitch just looms to big and scary over me, and its like im just sitting there trying to decipher some crazy email translated from a foreign language...ive kind of gotten the hang of it over time, but it still makes me want to go hide in a hole somewhere... Could I be iNFP? totally possible, but I do not believe the reasoning given for that possibility lately makes much sense, as far as what i understand of cognitive functions so far goes...which admittedly i do not feel is nearly as much as id like it to be...
I just realized that this is the first type me thread ive ever seen in which nobody has really asked me any questions about "me" meant to help figure out the type, its kind of funny,lol. its mostly just observations, which are all valid... we shall see.
