Well no need to get touchy and defensive digest. I was just throwing out some ideas out there, and you didn't have to take it as a personal attack.
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I'm just curious about your personality type is all.
i'm not being touchy (but even if i were, thanks for telling me how i shouldn't react). actually, i'm almost too easygoing. however, you just happened to stumble upon one of my few buttons, and then push it. i'm just not the type to allow someone else to tell me who i am, what i think, what i feel, where i'm coming from, etc. based upon what they themselves think without my saying something in return.
try to understand that autonomy is
huge on an NTs list of values. i not only fiercely defend my own, but i'll do the same for anyone else as well if i deem it necessary. while i'm not effected in the least by what others think of me, that's their own issue, (unless of course, i value the person), i do not like
to be told who i am by someone (even a valued person) who is not me thus is speaking out of their ass. it feels like confinement. it feels like a jail, and i can't stand it
or (and especially) the nerve it takes for someone to
approach me with it. particularly while saying i
should care and listen to them whether or not they're right.
i don't think anyone, not just me, should have to put up with that.
if you're really curious about my type, or anyone's type, or type in general, then in order to actually learn based on facts, you need to trust that others, not you, know themselves better than you do. from there, you can observe, ask questions (without accusing or 'tossing out' your ungrounded opinions), and actually gain
true knowledge. start not with a basis of your own, but with the assumption that the other person is
not you thus different, then simply ask/observe/etc., trust those answers are more correct than your assumptions, and analyze your findings from there.
It's interesting you say you self-analyzed yourself since birth. It indicates that you are what you personally analyze which it typical of introverts. However, given that your personality type is accurate of you (and remember I'm just a newbie to the MBTI theory
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) I would think you would want to integrate other people's analyses as well.
this is a good example of what i mean. you saying "it indicates" as if it really does. it doesn't at all. the only thing it indicates is that you think it indicates something. that's it. read more about MBTI, and you'll see that introverts aren't the only type that self-analyze. i analyze by nature. EVERYTHING. including me.
i'm not sure where you get that i should need other's opinions in order to analyze myself. i don't. i do gather information by default based on reactions, patterns, etc., but i don't necessarily
believe they're correct. i keep everything in mind
if it meshes with reality and where they're coming from (like i'm doing with you).
i'd never know who i am if i believed everything others think of me. haha! that's crazy talk. everyone sees me differently!
Oh well, we're all so different aren't we?
yes.
You're good, gal, you're good. *slings an arm around you* I'd know an ENTP if I were blind in one eye and deaf in both ears.
i don't know what i did, but thanks.
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