Thalassa
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- MBTI Type
- ISFP
- Enneagram
- 6w7
- Instinctual Variant
- sx
I'm pretty sure your whole personality type doesn't really become evident or conclusive until late teens/early 20's. I could be wrong though, and obviously there's exceptions to this, but what I think happens is that they tend to develop their dominant function, whatever that is, and the rest comes later to balance them out. My sister is 12, and I mean, I can tell you she's got LOTS of Fe, but other than that, not really sure. My brother is 17 and even he's a mystery to me. It's really difficult to tell until the person matures and experiences more of, well, life. Anyway, at that age I would say you might benefit from trying to figure out the dominant, but to go much further is almost like trying to start a little league baseball player out with weight training. It might actually impede their development if they have to worry about stuff like, "Oh jeez, I have a TYPE??!?!" before they're much more self aware.
Feel free to disagree though, this is just my opinion/theory on the matter.
I think that type is mostly formed by high school, maybe off by one letter. I can look back at my teens and see STRONG roots of my adult personality, and those of people whove I've known since then. I'm really not surprised at all by the adult personalities of the vast majority of people I went to high school with. There are maybe one or two who surprised me, and then I can connect that to bad circumstances during their adolescence which were improved as they went out on their own.