[celandine]

Hi, guys! I'm a six, like you. In trying to understand myself, I've often wondered about other sixes. So if you wouldn't mind being extremely (or only a little) open with me, could you answer the following questions? I'll answer them, too:

- How did you grow up?
- How did you realize you were a six?
- What made you want to know your personality type?
- How has knowing your enneagram type affected your life?

Thank you for your time and consideration!

 

[Chipps]

- How did you grow up?

Poor in a high crime rate neighborhood with a highly dysfunctional family with a lot of drug addicts in it.

- How did you realize you were a six?

It was suggested to me in the please type me forum and it fit like a glove. previously I though i was an 8w7

- What made you want to know your personality type?

Do you mean tritype, enneagram type or MBTI?

I wanted to know my tritype because none of the ones for the type 8 fit me.

I got turned on to enneagram and MBTI when I first go to college and was mistyped as ENTJ for 4 years.


- How has knowing your enneagram type affected your life?

It pulled the veil from over my eyes and made me recognize my true nature which I had somehow disconnected from years ago.

 

[celandine]

Thanks for your reply!

I grew up in a family that was pretty much built on our addictions and abuse. I figured out I was a six when I went to see an Enneagram coach to try and make myself better and dig myself out of depression. I wanted to learn my personality types... MBTI because I thought it was interesting, and Enneagram because, as I said, I wanted to get better. Learning my Enneagram has been a relief to me because I finally have something to follow, and to lean on to when I am thinking too much that I can't see straight anymore.

I'm INFP and 6w5.

 

[Chipps]

Thanks for your reply!

I grew up in a family that was pretty much built on our addictions and abuse. I figured out I was a six when I went to see an Enneagram coach to try and make myself better and dig myself out of depression. I wanted to learn my personality types... MBTI because I thought it was interesting, and Enneagram because, as I said, I wanted to get better. Learning my Enneagram has been a relief to me because I finally have something to follow, and to lean on to when I am thinking too much that I can't see straight anymore.

I'm INFP and 6w5.

Are you phobic or counterphobic?

 

[Louisex]

- How did you grow up?
I'm an army brat, an only child and an only grandchild so I'm pretty much spoilt and quite self centered.

- How did you realize you were a six?
I always test as a 5w6 sp so and although it fit it didn't really fit, I read an article which said that 6w5s can mistype as 5w6 sp so I had a look at the 6w5 descriptions and they explained a lot of my behaviours and desires which contradicted my MBTI type.

- What made you want to know your personality type?
Curiosity, no real reason for it.

- How has knowing your enneagram type affected your life?
It hasn't really, I can explain a lot of my quirks which used to baffle me.