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Are we Otroverts?

TheCatWoman

Theres an article in todays Guardian about this newly recognosed personality type, it describes people who feel like they don't belong, wish for emotional independence and have lots of original idea?

If you are then you'd be in the company of the likes of Freida Khaloe and Albert Einstein, but then who wouldn't want to be up there with those great minds?

Do you think this describes many autistic people?

Could this be a way of normalising ND, by adding another personality type rather than Jung's intorverts and extroverts?

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  • I couldn’t find the article in the online edition of today’s Guardian on the Library website, but I found this link https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/otrovert-personality-child_uk_683d5ed1e4b0cceca4070016

    Some of the personality attributes of an otrovert resonate with me, but I don’t know how much is down to personality and how much is due to being autistic. I don’t identify with several of the other otrovert traits. 

    TheCatWoman said:
    Could this be a way of normalising ND, by adding another personality type rather than Jung's intorverts and extroverts?

    It’s an interesting thought, but it wouldn’t work if we took on an otrovert personality type, because not all of us would fit in the same personality type and we would need further sub types. I think that autistic styles of understanding the world are entirely different to personality types.

    The Huffington Post article, referring to the psychiatrist who wrote the book, says ‘Dr Kaminski described the otrovert child as “neurotypical, friendly, curious, well-adjusted, and often popular” yet “they resist being pressured into group activities”.’ This would suggest that he has considered autism and discounted it in identifying otrovert. Also if Albert Einstein could have been an otrovert, does that mean he couldn’t have been autistic?

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  • I couldn’t find the article in the online edition of today’s Guardian on the Library website, but I found this link https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/otrovert-personality-child_uk_683d5ed1e4b0cceca4070016

    Some of the personality attributes of an otrovert resonate with me, but I don’t know how much is down to personality and how much is due to being autistic. I don’t identify with several of the other otrovert traits. 

    TheCatWoman said:
    Could this be a way of normalising ND, by adding another personality type rather than Jung's intorverts and extroverts?

    It’s an interesting thought, but it wouldn’t work if we took on an otrovert personality type, because not all of us would fit in the same personality type and we would need further sub types. I think that autistic styles of understanding the world are entirely different to personality types.

    The Huffington Post article, referring to the psychiatrist who wrote the book, says ‘Dr Kaminski described the otrovert child as “neurotypical, friendly, curious, well-adjusted, and often popular” yet “they resist being pressured into group activities”.’ This would suggest that he has considered autism and discounted it in identifying otrovert. Also if Albert Einstein could have been an otrovert, does that mean he couldn’t have been autistic?

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