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Autism is a very fashionable diagnosis and I think there is a popular tendency nowadays to stick the label of Asperger's/autism on anyone who is socially awkward/reserved and intelligent. When I was at college two of my teachers were convinced that I was aspergic, when in reality I was suffering...

Haha yeah, I definitely get distracted by other people if there are too many of them, or if they're talking loudly. That's why I generally avoid campus and public places in the day time. I always study in the library at night when there are only a few people around; there is almost nowhere on...

This definitely applies to me too. I actually have quite an intense fear of being stuck indoors, confined to an interior (mental and environmental) space. I've now doing my MA and throughout my time at university I have spent most of my time studying in the library (and various other campus...

Personally, I think there is quite a strong case for typing Jung as an INFJ. I don't think he was an INTJ. The way he crystallised his insights into a theoretical and systematic structure (this is going by my reading of 'Psychological Types') was highly characteristic of introverted thinking...

I'm at university, and I have been for about three and a half years now, and all that time I have been living with other people in housemate or flatmate situations for about half of every year (the uni term times in the UK). In that sense, my 'home' at university has not really been my sanctuary...

Well, I think emotion is rather a complex thing. I would also say that there is a difference between basic emotions (like anger, pain, jealousy, gratitude, happiness, and so on), which usually stem from our relationships to other people; and, on the other hand, aesthetic feeling or artistic...

^ Literally I could have written that myself hahaha. Sometimes the Enneagram seems even more astonishingly accurate than mbti. But the other interesting thing, I think, about us 4s is that we have a certain impulse to expose and root out our dominant life-illusions - a desire to enact a sort of...