Posted by verne on October 16, 2004, at 21:25:48
In reply to Re: Yet Another Personality Test » verne, posted by alesta on October 16, 2004, at 21:01:09
Hi Amy,
My histronics are more about over-dramatizing. I exaggerate to get my way I guess. I answered "yes" to the question about being manipulative which may have been weighted heavily for histronic. I probably think I'm more manipulative than most others view me. I'm very hard on myself so that may have come out in the test.
I also have a friend who constantly reminds me of how manipulative I am. All my actions according to him are based on my need to seek others approval and then, once I butter them up, I manipulate them. He's been hard on me over the years and I put up with it because it's couched in spirtual terms. (God is good, man is all bad etc...)
I always thought I picked up my histronic streak from my dad who used to go into a "routine" whenever anything remotely wrong happened. It was always the end of the world. I do that too with my black-and-white, all-or-nothing thinking.
I've read that borderliners tend to "charm" people. There may be histronics involved in that too.
But I'm still puzzled at how I scored so high in histronic. I don't like being the center of attention at all. I just hang around the edges and interrupt the main act. I've always been a bit of a court jester.
verne
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