Sounds like me

[vilakins]

From altariel. Damn, I'm a Four again, but I'm glad they called me an 'individualist' rather than the usual 'romantic' because I am so not. The cartoons are not me either (I wouldn't muck about with themed parties, and I buy almost all my clothes at a large on-line store), but I do in fact own a velvet-lined toolbox: it's for my jewellery making. :-P

Your Score: 4- the Individualist

Thanks for taking the test !

you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR (aka "The Romantic")

"I am unique"

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

• Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
• Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
• Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
• Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
• Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!

What I Like About Being a FOUR

• my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
• my ability to establish warm connections with people
• admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
• my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
• being unique and being seen as unique by others
• having aesthetic sensibilities
• being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What's Hard About Being a FOUR

• experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
• feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
• feeling guilty when I disappoint people
• feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
• expecting too much from myself and life
• fearing being abandoned
• obsessing over resentments
• longing for what I don't have

FOURs as Children Often

• have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
• are very sensitive
• feel that they don't fit in
• believe they are missing something that other people have
• attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
• become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
• feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)

FOURs as Parents

• help their children become who they really are
• support their children's creativity and originality
• are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
• are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
• are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
Harper SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

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Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I usually come out as a four.

[mossymermaid.livejournal.com]

Hello lovely!

Thanks for posting the eneagram cartoons. I haven't seen those before and believe me I have done some trawling. They are (ahem) Unique.

I usually test as a three. Ah well.

These are LOL

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I once went to am Enneagram lecture. I was dragged along by a friend and found another one was on the Four panel, but said panel were so angst-ridden and tending to black depression and thoughts of suicide (they were soooo Goth) I decided I couldn't be one. My avoidance of misery in fact made people suspect I was a Seven but I didn't think anything really fit. Perhaps a characteristic of a Four, ahem, but the panelists were so proud of their melancholy.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I'm a 9, the peacemaker and that's what friends say I am.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Aww, aren't you nice! My sister's husband is one, and he really, really needs to be. :-P

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Eh, I tried this, but there is no correct answer for me for the second question.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That happens to me a lot in quizzes. This one was fairly clear cut for me though.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

hmmm looks like I came out as a four as well

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

A lot of creative people are. I bet you're more the thinker on other tests like MBTI though, going by your work. I'm an INTP on that one, which is basically a geek.

Anyway, these tests only measure a few limited aspects of a person. :-P

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm a 5, as usual--not the sweetest thing going, but it's me to a T.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Before I ever took any Enneagram tests, I assumed I'd be a 5 because I'm an INTP which is a fairly classic geek in MBTI. My Greg is a 5 and we're very alike in most ways.