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The weather sucks and whenever the weather sucks I find myself mulling abstract concepts that have no point and that no one wants to hear about. People can see in my face that I'm not thinking about anything good and then, shortly after, the interrogation begins: what's wrong / what's on your mind / are you okay?

I tell them that the weather's bad. The real answer: I'm not unhappy, at least not consciously. It's just the way, apparently, that I am.

Most people are aware of the Myers-Briggs personality theory, to the extent that it's getting fucking old. "You KNOW You're An Introvert IF"... articles and the 'omg so awkward such introvert' tumblr posts are really ruining it for everyone who thought it was legitimate. But honestly, it's never really been a useful system of understanding people who aren't you. There are too many things it can't cover: why certain 'introvert' types get depressed when they don't socialize; why 'thought'-oriented people have such unregulated emotions that don't match their 'logical' sensibility external sound card.

There's another theory of personality floating around, significantly less popular because it's so much more complicated, that is apparently based on the movie Shrek. Personalities, it says, are like onions. (It's called Socionics, but does anyone care?)

Everyone has four layers of personality. Each layer is composed of two traits: one is an 'extroverted' function, which determines how you outwardly deal with the world around you; the other is an 'introverted' function, which refers to how you navigate and process within your own head. You then combine one of each orientation with a function in each of two categories: intuitive or sensing, thinking or feeling. It nets you combinations like 'introverted intuition / extraverted feeling' or 'extraverted sensing / introverted thinking.' The more defining feature comes first, and determines your overall personality. This allows for something like 'extroverted intuition' (the ability to read others and situations around you) to be your most dominant trait, making you a technical extrovert (you're oriented towards the world around you) who might still despise other people jimmy choo sale.