Adventures on Turtle Island

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@CheerBear wrote:
When I was reading more about your type profile @Phoenix_Rising, I was thinking about how tricky it would be for you with things being muddled and a brain that seems to much prefer things less muddled. It would be a hard road. As an ISTJ - you don't like to give up. That's gotta help somewhere!

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Yep...that would explain the TWELVE YEARS of plodding along through a four year degree!!! It would also explain my 100% perfect 20 year track record of surviving each day living with BPD.

And yes, this is a big part of why the muddle is so muddling. I super need things to be very calm and ordered and thus I get overwhelmed super easily...which usually ends up with me on the floor screaming and headbanging...which, for some reason, most people don't cope so well with.

OK... @CheerBear this is saying.. like I thought re perceiving intuitively that we both do.. what I do to thoughts or information, you do to feelings. OK.. see now that would be so confusing to me were we to exchange our F and T.. I'd be literaly walking in circles not know what the heck to do, as I suspect you would to for the opposite reason.

I get you now, on a whole different level, but at the same time I have no idea what that feels like.

That is, ironically, the difference right there in one sentence. Super interesting, but hard to grasp at the same time. Do you get what I mean or you are just going.. wth is she on about now? LOL

Awwww thanks @CheerBear. I certainly agree with your comment that things always change. Whether they will get better though...who can say. Things are ok right now though...and right now is all I can really cope with. Tomorrow, who knows...but tomorrow is tomorrow's problem.

I absolutely completely totally understand @Spookytookims and had the same kind of ah-hah moment too. I use my feelings to guide me, you use the information you make sense of. I think the idea of circles and going around is exactly what it would feel like for me. And when my feelings get jumbled, I go around and around. Like I imagine you do if you can't make sense of the information. I reflected on the bus/whirpool thread while I was pondering this all this afternoon. I imagined us both getting it, without being able to get it, and both of us kind of going around in our own circles in a circle together lol. It's like what I said earlier - I think together we could either work really well, or end up in a big mess.

I feel like I get you a lot more now and I realllllly appreciated the opportunity to do that. It's a rare opportunity to have the time and another willing person to ponder this stuff and try and make sense of it with (even if you do it in a way I totally don't get haha).

Can Myers-Briggs personality types change over time? I once did a complete test for work and was found to be ENTP. I was the only one of my type in the whole laboratory (I used to work with about 50 people in a pathology laboratory). Is there a link someone where I can do the test again? If nothing else, it might be a good distraction for me right now. 🙂

Thanks @CheerBear 🙂 Off to do the test now.

Good night @CheerBear @Spookytookims @Queenie. Bedtime for this little turtle.