Posted by Derf on March 05, 1998 at 00:34:56:
In Reply to: Re: Not all enneagram reviews are accurate! posted by Claudia on March 04, 1998 at 17:55:46:
I have reason to believe that I was *born* a 3 (I never would have thought so, but my parents related many stories about my early childhood). Extroverted, talkative, jaded on attention from others - that's the "me" I cannot remember. However, a physical traumas a few years later (temporary hearing loss, age 4 or 5) caused me to withdraw remarkably deeply, often at the cost of my very acknowledgement of the outside world! From that point on, I've been an introverted dreamer, and I lost most of my social (and otherwise outward) inclinations. I have read that 4 is an "inner" version of 3 in many ways. I still feel more like a 4 most of the time. Maybe I'm wrong about all this - after all, most 4s seem to "remember" being "happier" (from the point of view of average 4s, that could probably be any other point) before their consciousness was "skewed." Does anyone relate to an experience like mine, in which personality was altered, seemingly, by some event? (It would probably have to be in early childhood, if presiding developmental theories are correct).