Have you ever had someone 'take on' your personality?

Just stay away from such people. They will remain chemeleon in their life, when they come to know they are enough with personality changes, they will stop this thing or may happen they never can get changed.

Best solution become self defensive person when you are going to interact with such people either leave them as they are.

Choice is yours.

 

Perfect word "bigass online fraud" for such chameleons.

 

I pretty much agree with this answer too

Or they will absorb so many personalities, they create their own hybrid-personality. Maybe.

I have met these people a couple of times (and different kinds even!). They are very unstable, emotionally. They don't mean any harm, so I would just be nice to them but keep them at a distance. If you can, try to get the trust of everyone they speak to, and also see if they see the same things you do in this person. This is to prevent the person from doing any damage in case she gets a feeling you don't like her --these people get quite hostile and if you have everybody on your side, they have no chance. Keep your reputation up!

 

I also want to add this mimicking behaviour is normal in humans. Called mirror neuron

I guess this type is a little more extreme

 

For a time I was convinced that my sister was trying to steal my identity.
We weren't as a like initially, we acted differently, dressed differently and so forth. Then over time it seemed like she was suddenly trying to become me.
I was starting to be led to believe this for several reasons, one example is that I was listening to music and she told me to 'turn that shit off' and it seemed she didn't like the band I was listening to. This is relevant because online she would list that same band, and other artists I like, under her 'favourites'. It seemed weird that she would claim online to like something that she expressed to me that she doesn't like hearing.
Another one was one week we walked past a clothing shop and stopped to look. We looked at a shirt which she claimed was awful and that she doesn't like that type of look, I then said that I actually liked it. About a week or two pass by and we pass the same shop, she goes to the *same shirt from before* and expresses how she wants it... buh?
These and other minor things started to make me be wary, but I wasn't thinking much of it by that point.
It was mainly when coming across her online journal and she writes some of the events of my life as her own that I start to get bothered...
She has also taken many interests I have and passed them off as her own, then citing to others that I am imitating her. It especially irritates me when my father would show me something saying 'you'd like this' and to then have her come on over to claim that no, that's something she'd like, and 'Bron isn't interested in this stuff'.
Bleh.
So um.. yeah, I think she was trying to take on my personality. Although I really can't see why she'd want it.

 

Oh, those kind of people scare me.
My friend (IN/SFP) used to do this when we were younger and I was always a little bit shocked when she started it ^^" Thankfully it didn't work for her (she's not a natural chameleon type) so we're still friends and she's her own person.
The thing you said happened with that girl you knew also happened with my sister when she was younger, she would change to become really 'effeminate' and stuff when she mt a guy she liked. I talked to her about it eventually and, while it didn't go away immediately and she didn't take it too well, she doesn't do it anymore.
I think it has something to do with age...

 

I think it has to do with age too. Younger people may try to take on other people's personalities to understand how they fit in the world. It may even be a defense or survival mechanism - they don't feel like they are surviving that well as themselves, so they take on the personality of another. Most of the time this passes within 6 months or so.

I agree it's creepy. There's someone in my life (she's less than 10 years younger) that has been doing that too, and I can't stand it. I don't know why she picked flawed little me for Pete's sake, and keep praying she won't make the same mistakes I did... but there she goes, doing the same things.

At the end of the day though, I totally understand it's her story... and although it still annoys the crap out of me, I feel bad for her that she didn't feel like being herself was enough.

 

Why do you think this person would want to copy your personality?

Could it be that there is something in you that she admires or adores so she wants to be like you?

:typing:

 

It is strange...why would a male want to copy a female's personality?!

Perhaps he wants to be like you intellectually at a subconscious level?

 

I'm too complex for this feat to be performed on me. Good luck to those who will try

And it may be that they do it unconsciously. I imagine it could happen if a person has high Fe ability. So I would strive to help them finding their own way instead of running away.

 

I think I would be WAY too inclined to fuck with their mind. Not in a malicious sense, mind you.

I would start acting randomly and see how it throws them off, throw a wrench in how they behave. Subtle randomness, just enough that they think to themself, wtf?? But not enough for open question. Eventually they will see what they are doing. I doubt they even realize.