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Neuroticism	36
Extraversion	4
Openness To Experience	86
Agreeableness	37
Conscientiousness	4

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Wow, I'm low on emotionality. 3?!? I'm positively a Vulcan!

I have to say overall this is fairly accurate, especially the detailed version.

Actually, I hate memes and tests, I'm not really sure why I'm doing this. Oh, yes, to avoid work, of course.

Current Mood: annoyed

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You know, in a continuing effort to waste time, I just went and did a couple of those unreliable "Do you have adult add?" questionnaires. Which I a) find unreliable, but b) seemed to score really high on. Like, in one, a score of over 70 put you in the highest, most likely to have ADD category. I got 76 and was told to see someone about it 'immediately' in big bold letters. Even after going back and being uber stringent with myself in case I was skewing my results, I got 67 which was 'you'd probably better get this checked out'. And in this other one, I had real high scores on 27 areas where 20 suggested a strong tendency towards the disorder.

I'm not too fussed because, like I said, unreliable. But also...scoring *that* high...kinda freaky. You know, maybe I am fussed. It's a bit weird cos it's not something I'd *ever* considered before.

Eh, I'll spend an hour trying to get to sleep because my brain won't wind down, and then by tomorrow I'll have forgotten about it.

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>I'm not too fussed because, like I said, unreliable. But also...scoring *that* high...kinda freaky. You know, maybe I am fussed. It's a bit weird cos it's not something I'd *ever* considered before.

It's not something I'd ever considered before, either, but it does seem to make an awful lot of sense, considering how I've spent most of the last six weeks (and a lot of my time in general). It's one of these things I'd never thought about but that sort of immediately 'clicked' with me when I read about it - like the autistic tendencies thing, the facial recognition thing, and the asexuality thing. As I outlined above - the question is where do we draw the line between 'normal', if somewhat extreme and inconvenient personality trait, and 'disorder' that needs treatment? And do we, do I want to change my personality artificially if it could make my life easier and happier?

As I said before: I don't know, I really don't know.

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I say we REFUSE to conform and DEMAND that the rest of the world take drugs to be more like US.

We're obviously superior and thus should be used as a model for a far happier world where leisure time is the most important thing and no one feels any pressure to actually get anything done to any sort of schedule. A world where procrastinating for two hours before you can actually make yourself sit down and start writing is NORMAL.

Maybe we just see how crappy and straightjacketed the world is and are refusing to conform to this creativity killing, personality choking, mind-numbing morass of depressed rat-racers. I read something in the paper the other day that our current lifestyle is directly responsible for there being more depressed kids (although, again, over diagnosis?) and it's the barrage of television and junk food and not interacting with other humans. Maybe our brains are allergic to this crappy way of existing and they're rebelling the only way they know how - by refusing to engage.

At least...that sounds a lot more poetic than the alternative. :)

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I like your analysis/wishful thinking. ;-)

Of course, unfortunately, my unfocusedness extends even to stuff I really *like* to do, like writing, and making jewellery. (Heck, I even really like studying, in theory, yet I can't seem to do it efficiently.) So...

Yeah, but leisure time = definitely very important, and it *should* be. Did you know that in all hunter-and-gatherer societies people had a *lot* of leisure time? I maintain that the human psyche needs that. And I think I'm always mentally active, even when I'm not necessarily *productive* in any measurable way.

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>Of course, unfortunately, my unfocusedness extends even to stuff I really *like* to do, like writing, and making jewellery. (Heck, I even really like studying, in theory, yet I can't seem to do it efficiently.) So...

Yeah. Me too. A little upsetting, isn't it?