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What's your personality like?

Wheatley July 26, 2019 at 05:28 7275 views 20 comments
You can mention your personality traits here and give a brief description of each one.

Here's my attempt:

Obsessive: I can be extremely obsessive. When I become interested in something I can't stop obsessing over it. I once played a video game 24 hours straight, not sleeping, only stopping to eat and go to the bathroom. I attempted to solve a snake cube puzzle for about 15 hours not sleeping the whole night (I did end up solving it in the end). I've rekindled my interest in philosophy now., as a result I'm glued to this forum for the moment.

Sensitive: Related to my obsessiveness, I'm extremely sensitive. Nobody can say anything bad about me without me tearing up inside and thinking about what they've said all day. I try to avoid all possible situations where someone think bad about me. It's all related to my social phobia.

Anxious: It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm an extremely anxious person. I'm always thinking negatively about how things can go wrong. I can't do this or that because things might not turn out good. I tend to ruminate about negative events that happened in my life over, and over again. I shake and fidget a lot showing my constant unrest.

Disorganized: I'm not a neat freak by any stretch of the imagination. When I write I have to look over it several times where I notice I'm constantly making errors. I'm not even aware of all my errors, others have to point them out. I don't have any concept of time management. When I went to school, whenever I took notes, they were very sloppy and useless for helping me study. It's also very hard for me to talk because talking requires you to organize your words.

I notice that I mostly described negative things about myself. I didn't write any positive personality traits not because I don't want to toot my horn, but because I have a hard time seeing the positive in me. I'm sure I do have some positive traits, I just can't identify them right now.

Feel free to describe your personality any way you want. You don't have follow my format.

Comments (20)

Wheatley July 26, 2019 at 13:53 #310296
No takers? I guess I was mistaken in thinking people would open up about their personality to online strangers. Oh, well.
Sir2u July 27, 2019 at 01:59 #310411
Quoting Purple Pond
I didn't write any positive personality traits not because I don't want to toot my horn, but because I have a hard time seeing the positive in me. I'm sure I do have some positive traits, I just can't identify them right now.


You are honest.

Quoting Purple Pond
No takers? I guess I was mistaken in thinking people would open up about their personality to online strangers. Oh, well.


Not many can be objectively honest about themselves, if they were they would probably not like themselves very much.

I doubt that I would call myself obsessed, dedicated maybe to getting things done.

I have given up anxiety and become a Murphiest. If it is going to happen it will, at the wrong moment.

I got over sensibility as well. I don't give a shit now what anyone says.

I can still see yesterdays beer can sitting on my desk, but it is stopping some papers I use for taking notes and planning being blown away by the fan that got stuck in one place about a month ago and is waiting to be repaired, when I can find the plan I made to fix things around the house. So I guess I could call myself organized chaos.

Apart from that I am a happy, loving guy that gets along with most people. :cool:
Wheatley July 27, 2019 at 02:20 #310419
Reply to Sir2u Ah, a response. Finally. I was beginning to think nobody would take me seriously, like I’m one of those odd invisible kids in school trying to get some attention. To be fair, asking about someone’s personality is a personal question (not sure if pun intended). It seems like most people here are too serious for discussions like these. “What’s your personality like?”. “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”
Shawn July 27, 2019 at 04:23 #310438
A wallower.
yupamiralda July 27, 2019 at 14:38 #310548
I give up on trying to understand myself, at least I believe I should. I know that there is practically no limit to the way I can interpret myself to myself and I can't believe my stories anymore.

I seem to be able to make people laugh, if they are open to that. My grim outlook ensures an extremely dark sense of humor, which I usually have to reign in. I guess a lot of what I say is ambiguous; people can't decide if I'm making fun of them. I've been told lately that I'm mean, which surprised me, because I really feel like I give people a lot of latitude as far as their weaknesses go. I suppose that's a pretty mean way to describe it. But people like to do me favors (which is used against me as evidence of my "manipulation"). I try to avoid speaking like I read books, but eg last night I dropped the word "decadent" (and it was actually an ironic usage) to uncomprehending stares. At least my audience thought my vocabulary was a funny quirk about me, and didn't feel threatened. That happens often enough. I've learned not to demonstrate intelligence because it stirs up fear.

I'm sensitive, but I haven't been in a situation where I could be anything but tough for a long time. So I hide that.

I don't let myself complain. I try to get comfortable with the worst case scenario, so if anything better happens, it's like candy.

I move my body like I know how to use it. When I'm feeling good I've been accused of "walking around like [I'm] ten feet tall."

"The high spirits of kindness might look like malice." --Nietzsche

EDIT: I suppose I should mention that my personality around men and my personality around women are completely different.
RegularGuy July 28, 2019 at 00:26 #310701
Reply to Purple Pond I have all of the traits you describe plus more that are negative.

Good traits that I have? I suppose that I’m empathetic much of the time. I find a lot of things humorous. I’m curious, and I have good relationships (though not many).
S July 28, 2019 at 16:49 #310917
Cute and nice. I used to be mean, whereas now... oh, shut the fuck up.
Sir2u July 29, 2019 at 01:36 #311082
Quoting S
Cute and nice.


The question is about you, not what that dead cat in your basement used to be like.

Shawn July 29, 2019 at 08:29 #311123
Reply to Sir2u

Poor Oksa...
Sir2u July 31, 2019 at 02:44 #311757
T Clark August 21, 2019 at 03:23 #318129
Quoting S
Cute and nice. I used to be mean, whereas now... oh, shut the fuck up.


This seems really familiar, but wasn't there something about a frog?
thewonder August 24, 2019 at 02:54 #319696
I've gotten INFP and ENFP when I've taken the personality test before. I can be kind of awkward as well as the life of the party.

When I was still milling around the bars in town, I used to liken myself to the lonely boy out on the weekend. I've cut my hair since then and don't think that I'm too much like that anymore.

I feel like I'm sort of gloomy. I kind of sulk a lot.

I'm not just gloomy, but I'm not really sure what to say about myself other than that.
Pattern-chaser September 08, 2019 at 13:42 #325937
Reply to Purple Pond INTJ. A designer; a chaser of patterns.
S September 09, 2019 at 18:47 #326554
Quoting T Clark
This seems really familiar, but wasn't there something about a frog?


I cut that part out, like how I cut open my cat's abdomen and removed her vital organs.
Terrapin Station September 10, 2019 at 20:55 #327081
Some combo of weird/quirky, jokey/goofy, geeky/dorky, perpetually horny/an insatiable lothario, and really mellow/easygoing, happy-go-lucky, etc., at least when I'm not around people who are complainers, naggers, perpetual critics, or who are usually hyper, in which case I just want to get away from them.
Drazjan September 11, 2019 at 12:41 #327365
I listen carefully. Have ever widening interests. Have been a hero to a few and a villain to others. Extremely artistic but not particularly innovative. I value sense of humour and tenacity. I prefer any decision rather than none. Hate to see others embarrassed. I sympathise with the underdog, but despise the moronic support of minorities simply because they are minorities. Empathise with animals but am not vegan. Powerfully attracted to the opposite sex. Would be a Leftist if they were not suicidal. Would be Rightist if they were not so so insular. Credit no person, past or present, with esoteric knowledge of cosmic truth.
praxis September 11, 2019 at 13:15 #327373
Quoting Drazjan
despise the moronic support of minorities simply because they are minorities


Spoken just like someone who’s never been a minority.
Pattern-chaser September 11, 2019 at 13:35 #327381
Reply to praxis :smile: :up: Nit-pick: PERSECUTED minorities. Billionaires are in a minority.... :wink:
Drazjan September 12, 2019 at 00:23 #327635
Quoting praxis
despise the moronic support of minorities simply because they are minorities
— Drazjan

Spoken just like someone who’s never been a minority.


I am an not going to apologise for being lucky. That is what the above mentioned morons do.
praxis September 12, 2019 at 03:29 #327676
Reply to Drazjan

This implies that you believe minorities are unfortunate, so it appears that you despise support for the unfortunate. What kind of person are you?