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Cindy's avatar

Hmmm - 233 ⁉️ It might not be INSTEAD of ASD but co-existent as there are the same but additional factors such as noise sensitivity - just as many with ASD have ADHD etc. 🤷 As I have postulated for some time, I think the neuro-diverse ARE the "normal" and the so-called "normal" are just the ones with the power or the drive to make the world fit their perspectives & norms, while the rest of us accept that there is variety and not just "one way" etc. 🤷⁉️

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Katherine's avatar

236. Grateful to Jesse. I'm coupled with another Otrovert (232) We've had 44yrs weve called 'We-ing' (with LOTS of space, no family, contented fringe dwellers).

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Nigel B's avatar

Thanks Jesse this explains a lot about why I have always felt like an other. I scored 200/280 not sure why a split score. I was involved in organised religion for many years but always felt like an imposter. Now I look back on those charismatic days in horror. I am still a seeker but prefer to explore many paths. I dislike the certainty of people who believe. So a good start to the day and a real understanding as to why I never felt like an introvert or an extrovert in fact I strongly dislike anything binary seeing everything as containing elements of the other. I love my wife and my dog most of all their unconditional love is so powerful and like a healing balm for my often battered soul.

Nigel

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Angela Cassidy's avatar

Hmmm, 213, I always thought I was a high functioning autistic (and a massive introvert)

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Anita Taylor's avatar

Thank you Jesse. I had come across this so good to take the test as confirmation - 222. Does it help to give a name to this? Not certain about such a classification to fit into a world narrative. Let's just accept that we are all unique in our own way.

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Valerie's avatar

142! Apparently a "Communal Extrovert." Thanks for this read Jesse it was very interesting

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Maria Lovegrove's avatar

152! Potentially we can be mates 😂

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Gianni's avatar

214. I've heard the term ambivert before, who coined that google search revealed 3 different answers in the first three results. I think I encountered it reading Susan Cain who has written a lot about introversion and discussing the definitions and boxing people into these categories.

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Lesley Norris's avatar

191. Communal introvert???? That's like saying a pessimistic optimist or a fit couch potato!

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Lucy Conway's avatar

I like bright colours, but I don’t like standing out in a crowd, I just find them more cheerful.

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Lucy Conway's avatar

The detailed email wasn’t like me at all though.

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Christopher's avatar

196 for me - that helps explain things. Thanks for bringing it to attention.

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Christopher's avatar

One thing I often feel - is like I'm living 5 - 10 years in the future.

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GW's avatar

Really interesting, thanks. It scored me an otrovert and lots of the points made resonate (my wife always described me as a “social introvert”). I’m not sure it represents a third way to introvert/extrovert though and am slightly suspicious it’s an excellent piece of marketing rather than science - then realised that may well represent exactly the traits being discussed 😅

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McKinleyRd Creatives's avatar

loved this......looking forward to a journey with it.............i am such a mixture, and have changed as I haven gotten older.........if that can happen. thank you Jesse. I am 68 and been mulling around the issue of not fitting, and the pro's and con's of liking my own company. Mulling is a very Mulligan word :-). Appreciate you Jesse.

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Carrie Wainwright's avatar

So good. Thanks Jesse. I think you’re a national treasure.

I’m not an Otrovert, and nor am I a Communal Introvert (as the quiz concluded) but these little trips into identity are so interesting.

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kiwi dave's avatar

Never mind "otrovert". we have had AMBIVERT for many years

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Simon Sweetman's avatar

196/otrovert —I reckon I’d score even higher if I did the test again.

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Christopher's avatar

That's what I thought as well - I would score higher if I re-took it.

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Jan's avatar

180 for me, I’m a communal extrovert lol

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