Type a confused hooligan

I'll asnwer the sidebar questions, but I also was wondering if anyone would be willing to go through my post history and take a guess based on that for what my type might be. A lot of people have had success with that it seems, and there's also just a lot more material to be had there.

I also want to mention I was tired and hungry while writing this so excuse any typing errors or grammatical oopsies. I would normally dive deep into questions like these but I've not got the time now. Although it seems compared to other people I've done more than they thought to.

• How old are you? What's your gender? Give us a general description of yourself.

I'm 16, male. I find self descriptions kind of irrelevant, especially when I read the ones I've made about myself over the years, as I end up disagreeing with their accuracy over time.

I guess some key points would be this: I'm a technical person. I'm good with math and programming naturally, so that says something there. Although I'm always very free flowing, and not very structured. In fact I hate structure, unless it has to do with one thing: money.

I've been said to be a very charming and charismatic person although I never classified myself as that personally. I make friends easily, but I usually don't go out of my way to. I seem to have a lot of enemies for some reason. A lot of people see me as evil apparently, even though I think of myself as supporitve and nice. Apparently, people see me as too honest, even though in reality I think I could be even more honest with people, and I actually hold a lot of my thoughts back.

Either way, I'm lighthearted and take nothing seriously. I like to poke fun and make jokes, and I'm not rigid socially. I don't like trends, and I have my own style... even though my "style" can change at a whim. I'll even sometimes do things just to be abnormal. I wear bath robes all the time, for instance. Even to things like important meetings. Apparently that's very strange. Even though who doesn't want to wear a blanket over them all the time?

I've been said to be goofy before, but have actually also been told I'm really not. Apparently I can be whatever I want or something, or I'm multiple people in one body, and a different person comes out depending on who I'm with.

• Is there a medical diagnosis that impact your mental/comportamental stability somehow?

ADHD, although I question whether or not I have the disorder or am just easily distracted, which I am very much. I was prompted that diagnosis from a school, which of course they did to try and dope me with drugs. Sometimes I can go into a "flow" and work for hours without even having perception of time. Which brings me back to questioning the diagnosis.

• Describe your upbringing. Did it have any kind of religious or structured influence? How did you respond to it?

Yes. I was in a very religious household. I eventually grew out of it - not all at once however. I began by looking at some of the "morals," applying them to situations in my life or others, and realized they're total bullcrap. I never really thought about religion too much, nor did I ever go directly into believing in it. I've thought about the logic behind some of the morals of religions I haven't been raised in, how good they are and who the "best" religious person is, in terms of who has the best ideas about serious topics. Mainly I find each religion has its benefits and serious downsides. I haven't found one that's perfect yet. I'm not opposed to anyone being religious, it's practically the same as having any other type of belief system. It just has to make sense before I repect it entirely.

I believe God could exist but I haven't taken the time to try and figure out if I can convince myself he does or not yet.

• What do you do as a job or as a career (if you have one)? Do you like it? Why or why not?

Programmer. Sure, I enjoy it. But my serious aspirations are to become an engineer, probably mechanical or civil. Preferably something to do with space, but I'll leave that decision up to the market demand when the time comes. I'm good with math naturally, and everyone is interested in space - all that mystery and the vastness of how much we've not yet explored. It's a perfect combination in my case. As for why I like programming, I originally started out with some desire to improve how I use my computer day to day: writing scripts to automate certain tasks on websites, grab information from different website threads, make cheats in video games, etcetera. I've also used some programming experimentally for algorithmic trading but haven't gotten too serious with it. One of the applications I have running 24/7 is a program I wrote to alert me of fantastic tech deals. It searches for everything - TVs, computer parts, desks, chairs, etcetera. It looks at price, compares it with prices of similar objects of that type, and it alerts me if it's on a seriously good deal. Saved me thousands of dollars. For instance, when I wanted to buy a new monitor, I layed out specifications and a pricerange, and let the program go for a month. I was about to bite the bullet on a $1,000 monitor, but ended up settling for one that was $350 and was just as good.

• If you had to spend an entire weekend by yourself, how would you feel? Would you feel lonely or refreshed?

I wouldn't feel lonely. It would take me about two or three weeks for me to be "lonely," but I only need a very minimal amount of interaction to combat that. I enjoy social interaction though, as much as being alone. I'm an "ambivert." It's worth mentioning my mind is pretty zen, I'm known for loving sitting in waiting rooms. No noise, no stimulation, no movement, absolutely nothing. Left to my mind, hours can pass by and me not even realizing it. So to an extent it's like I don't even know how long I've been alone for.

• What is your relation with movement and your surroundings? For instance do you prefer a sport or outdoors event? If an outdoors event what is it? And why? If not what type of activities do you tend to engage i?

Well, I like vdeo games - shooter games, but also strategy and story games. I don't like sports - hate them even. Fast-paced enviroments are boring to me. I'm very good at sports, and I'm a natural athlete. But I'd rather do something that would involve planning and stategizing - something all about outsmarting people. Although it may just be that I'm not bad at sports and so that's all that can give me satisfaction for when I win, knowing I did something in the way of actually achieving something I might not have unless I put in the good work to.

• How curious are you? Do you have more ideas then you can execute? What are your curiosities about? What are your ideas about - is it environmental or conceptual, and can you please elaborate?

My curiosity would mainly be about whatever it is I'm working on at the time, but that's kind of an expected answer, isn't it? We all have work to do, right? Mostly 90% of my ideas are ones that I can execute in some way, even if it would take decades to achieve. Usually thinking of as many ways to do one thing as possible. My curiosity comes in the moment though. I'm doing something and I think of something funny - "I wonder what would happen if I did this right now," could be a way to sum it up. Things trigger my creativity. I can't say "I'm gonna make a story" and then be able to plan it out ahead of time. I just need to start writing, and then it pours out.

I don't think about totally abstract stuff all day however. I find that boring and pointless. Might as well use my creativity for something worthwhile.

• Would you enjoy taking on a leadership position? Do you think you would be good at it? What would your leadership style be?

I would enjoy the outcomes I could achieve but wouldn't care either way. Leadership positions make you more money, I'd certainly like that. Would I be good at it? Most certainly. I'm usually always thinking of ways to improve things and usually I end up being right on a lot of things, but that probably comes with just knowing my field well more than anything else. My style? Free flowing. Leave people to their own devices, but I would be very demanding if I had to be for whatever reason. Wouldn't care to punish people, fire people on spot, if it meant having some better efficiency. My workers could figure out their own way to come up with things or solve problems, if the result was the same. I would set rules around that if warranted, but I otherwise wouldn't demand much.

• Are you coordinated? Why do you feel as if you are or are not? Do you enjoy working with your hands in some form? Describe your activity?

I don't know what "coordinated" means in this context. I enjoy driving, to give an example - and I'm naturally a very good driver too, being able to jude how to go through tight spaces while I pas through them at high speeds. Think GTA maneuvering around pedestrian cars. I can squeeze through two cars if there's enough space where it's just enough to be possible. I love scaring people with that. I also pretty much never slow down around corners, I can judge how fast I can go around them for it to become a problem though, but I go as fast as possible around them. Sometimes on roundabouts, I won't even go around them, and will go through the middle if it means I don't have to slow down. I've also gone high speed over speed bumps, feet in the air with my car. I'm not doing this for the thrill, as I don't get much rush from it. I just don't understand why we have to go so slow on the road. I hate wasting time. I want to be at my desired place as fast as possible. My sister's car can go 0-100MPH in 8 seconds and I ridicule her car for being a snail every time I drive it. I nail the accelerator every time I go forward, assuming I can anyway. Never been in an accident, by the way, and have a perfectly good driving record. I don't blow red lights, for instance.

I have a joke - "if you run over all the speed limit signs, there isn't a speed limit." And "if there aren't any cops around, the law doesn't exist." That last one is meant to shock people, because that applies to 99% of your daily life, so I essentially give way to murder and rape or something like that, and it freightens people.

• Are you artistic? If yes, describe your art? If you are not particular artistic but can appreciate art please likewise describe what forums of art you enjoy. Please explain your answer.

Technically I am. I can imagine really good art in my head but have no serious ability to draw so a lot of it goes unnoticed. My art is very symbolic. I like making "weird" pictures in my head that seem to make no sense but have a very deep meaning behind them, something that expresses a very important or powerful idea, or a personal struggle. Music can help me a lot with this process too. I like to listen to a lot of songs that revole around a very specific mental image I've associated with them, which indicates what I believe the song means (to me) and why.

• What's your opinion about the past, present, and future? How do you deal with them?

I've planned far into the future, and have some strategies for my finances to forthcome going into my 40s, but I don't give much attention to the future. Nor do I the past. I learn from the past but I don't hang on to it, unless I feel I need to. I'm pretty present-oriented. I do things in the moment. I'm good at it, which is why I don't feel the need to plan for things. Although it's mostly I don't know what I need to plan for. I mean, I planned my finances, but... I don't care about "making something for myself." So I just do things I want to in the moment, because there's nothing else to do. Which makes my answer kind of irrelevant, but I didn't want to leave this blank regardless.

• How do you act when others request your help to do something (anything)? If you would decide to help them, why would you do so?

Help with what? Emotions? If that's the case, strike the problem head on. If there is something causing emotional pain, then get rid of it. I'm not one to offer support. I'd like to though, because it makes solving problems so much easier if they aren't as in an extreme amount of torment (at least depending on the problem. I find rage to be an amazing motivator. And insecurity to be an amazing self development tool). Although I do think feeling better after someone comforts you can be pretty stupid, because most of the time people are saying a bunch of flowery words without a whole lot meaning. But that also depends on the problem as well.

If the question didn't mean emotions, then it depends on who it is. If it's a close friend, I'll go far and away for them, as long as it's a task that I can handle. They want me to make them a video game? Then I will. They want me to make a hack client for CS:GO? On it. If it's not a close friend, if it has benefit to me, then I'm in - otherwise no.

• Do you need logical consistency in your life?

I need things to be logical, but what's this whole consistency thing about? Isn't logic inherently consistent? In that sense, yes, I value it very much. Otherwise you're not using logic. Morals can change at a whim given the right motivation for it to. And I have no morals. I don't feel that things are good or bad. I feel nothing about any topic. Murder? I'd have to think about whether or not it's a decent idea first. I'm not gonna have a negative emotional reaction to it for any reason. Mental patients? I don't see them as "sick" or "twisted." I see them as a "different type of person."

• How important is efficiency and productivity to you?

I like money... a lot. So in that sense, to get money, very important. Otherwise... eh. I sometimes plan out days to just listen to music. Not watch a show, listen to some music, walk the dog... no, just sit, close my eyes, and listen to music. Productivity matters given an important goal but otherwise productivity for its own sake is dumb. So I wouldn't consider exercise dumb, since it improves health; but playing Sodoku would be what I would consider dumb.

• Do you control others, even if indirectly? How and why do you do that?

No, not unless I was in that leadership position. I don't really have any interest in controlling people. I may give my friends guidance, but that isn't so much control at all. My friends should be able to lead themselves perfectly fine. Nobody should have to depend on me, so I act like that's the case through and through.

• What are your hobbies? Why do you like them?

Doing nothing. Not kidding about that either, by the way. But mainly I settle for listening to music or watching a show. Nothing too serious.

• What is your learning style? What kind of learning environments do you struggle with most? Why do you like/struggle with these learning styles? Do you prefer classes involving memorization, logic, creativity, or your physical senses?

Boring ones. Boneheaded lectures. I struggle with those a lot, but so does everyone. However given the right explainer, someone without a perectly monotone voice, speaks at a fast rate, and explains things without wasting my time because they like to hear themselves talk, then the topic could be on anything I can learn very quickly without issue. It doesn't really matter when it comes to the "style" of learning. It just depends on how interesting the presenter can make it. As for what types of classes I prefer, all of the above, although memorization classes are usually useless, logic classes are usually elementary, and creativity classes are forced a lot of the time.

• How good are you at strategizing? Do you easily break up projects into manageable tasks? Or do you have a tendency to wing projects and improvise as you go?

I don't have any real way to measure how good I am at strategizing if you're picking the bone away, to speak. I don't strategize that much, so I can't use my success rate as any serious indicator. Although usually I don't have much problem with it. If something can exist to have clear steps, 123s and abcs, then I'm very good. But if it involves creativity, guesswork, and predictional basises, then I don't know. Maybe I'm great, maybe I suck.

• What's important to you and why?

Peace. No sense in getting involved in things like wars when we can be civil. That applies to the highest unorder to even simple things. Arguing over something irrelevant and petty with a stranger, to war. World peace is one of the issues I can actually stand up for. Although I don't see how this helps figuring out my type, but I didn't have anything else to put here.

• What are your aspirations?

To get a high paying job and make my sense of a sufficient amount of money. Otherwise my aspirations are to ensure a lifelong future of immediate pleasure, however I need to do that.

• What are your fears? What makes you uncomfortable? What do you hate? Why?

I don't know. Thought about this for a few minutes, and that's all I can come up with. No real fears or hatred of anything. I can hate specific things, but nothing general.

• What do the "highs" in your life look like?

Skipping this one, because I have no idea.

• What do the "lows" in your life look like?

Same with this one.

• How attached are you to reality? Do you daydream often, or do you pay attention to what's around you? If you do daydream, are you aware of your surroundings while you do so?

I'm very detached from reality. Always dreaming, not always about things that are real in any way. Pretty much it could be about anything. Something could trigger an entirely new daydream, or I might indulge in an occuring one. I am often not aware of my surroundings, nor the flow of time.

By the way, when I say always dreaming, I mean literally always dreaming. Even when I'm doing programming. I've thought about even seeing a therapist for it, but I've actually found some good to come out of it, so I've held back and started thinking more of it as a perk than a disadvantage in any way. For one thing, it allows me to not care as much about the world.

• Imagine you are alone in a blank, empty room. There is nothing for you to do and no one to talk to. What do you think about?

Not sure if this is an acceptable answer, but anything. I might think about how to improve something, or reflect on a memory, or think about something in politics, or think about what I would do in a bunch of different survival situations. I can't really answer this. It could be... anything. Just whatever's on my mind.

• How long do you take to make an important decision? And do you change your mind once you've made it?

I can usually judge fairly well how much time I need for a decision. Usually I make them pretty fast. I just pick what's the most immediately sensible in the moment and go with it, unless I actually need to think about it. The goal is to find the answer, and find it quickly to get things moving. Although if "quick as possible" is years or something, that's fine by me. While I do want the answer now, it *does* have to be entirely accurate. So I go quickly, but am precise regardless. That probably has to do with how little oppertunity for real pontification to be deserved actually happens

• How long do you take to process your emotions? How important are emotions in your life?

Emotions are important, I guess. But I don't experience them all that heavily, I'm pretty simple and straightforward in that regard. I don't take any time to process them. I know what I'm feeling, why, and what to do about it. Nothing complicated about it.

• Do you ever catch yourself agreeing with others just to appease them and keep the conversation going? How often? Why?

Sometimes, yes. Although usually what I'll do is refrain from commenting. I don't want to be seen as rude, argumentive, or stubborn. Because I'm really not, even if others believe I am wholeheartedly. But if questioned I won't go along with what they're saying if I really don't agree. I do believe in peace but I believe in individual thought too, so I keep them balanced.

I will sometimes break that rule though, actually, if I am being manipulative. That's kind of the wrong word to use. What I mean primarily is to use that person for a particular mean. They have information about something but I need to be their friend first. I'll cut their cake for them just for that reason.

• Do you break rules often? Do you think authority should be challenged, or that they know better? If you do break rules, why would you?

Of course authority should be challenged. I don't normally break rules because I normally don't have any reason to but I certainly would if I felt it'd be a decent option. I don't have too much regard for rules although I think they have to exist. We can't trust people to know how to act in every given situation, so it helps mediate nonsense. Although sometimes rules are indeed nonsense on their own. Like drug rules. Every drug should be legalized - even the "spooky" ones like cocaine and heroin. Haven't done them personally but see no reason for them to be banned.

• What is the ideal life, in your opinion?

High comfort, low responsibility. Lots of money sitting around, without anything that requires your time or effort. That's why I love money so much. It can provide comfort, and enough of it can relieve you of having to do anything.

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I'd be glad to answer questions if anyone has any. I tried to answer these quetions to the best of my ability even though in all reality I could have rambled... and rambled... never stopping with stuff to say for each. It took me a while to summarize a few of them into what they are. The introduction post says the more you type, the more accurate the type prediction will be, but I feel like I'd probably stray people further from a conclusion, although condensing my answers made me feel like I was forcing myself into a conclusion.

One thing I'm considering is making another one of these posts in half a year, or a few years, and seeing if I come across any differently to people in this community. That'd be a fun experiment.

Usually though, for my social media profiles anyway, I like to use these simple descriptions of myself:

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"Some would say I'm wacky. Some would say I'm "that kid." Above all, I would say that I'm an interesting person... so to speak."

"I could use a lot of words to describe my personality, but I shouldn't use them. There are kids around!"

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And if you're wondering what kinds of things I post on social media, here are some examples:

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"Air pollution is a serious problem. Look at what oxygen does to steel!"

"I did something ingenious again (of course I would). I set my profile picture to my face, which means now you have to say everything to my face. So go ahead, I dare you."

"I'm not an addict. I'm just a slave to the system."

Submitted March 14, 2019 at 12:45AM by mapplemobs https://ift.tt/2Fagph6