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19 Jan 2007, 10:10 am

Copied and reposted from a longer thread:

Just tried this - http://www.fisheaters.com/quiz1.html - and was impressed. Spectrum people are melancholics. Using the four humours from antiquity, without even understanding the structure or chemistry of the brain, mediæval Catholic spiritual writers could be very good psychologists. Based on observations accumulated over many years they understood and knew how to treat spectrum people. That is, the educated minority of people knew. I imagine the uneducated majority thought spectrumites either holy fools or possessed. Again a lot like people today.



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19 Jan 2007, 11:09 am

I am a Melancholic.

http://www.fisheaters.com/quizm.html



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19 Jan 2007, 11:34 am

I am a Choleric

http://www.fisheaters.com/quizc.html

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If you were living in the Age of Faith, perfect career choices for you would be Crusader (leader of the Crusades, of course), the knighthood, King, mayor, head of a guild, founder of a new religious order, or housewife or father with a well-organized, well-behaved brood, each of whom you expect to excel.



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19 Jan 2007, 12:02 pm

No surprise.. I'm a Melancholic. The description fits me perfectly.



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19 Jan 2007, 12:08 pm

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19 Jan 2007, 12:16 pm

Melancholic, the description fit me well also.


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19 Jan 2007, 12:29 pm

Mine came out on the borderline between melancholic and phlegmatic.

This thread would be interesting as a poll, since there are only 4 answers.



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19 Jan 2007, 12:43 pm

I'm more to the sanguine side, but much calmer and more thoughtful. I can't say I'm easily swayed either.

I guess I'm neither of the four, really. Of all the temperament descriptions I've found Kraetschmer's "syntonic" suits me best - a calm person mostly in tune with their surroundings who may get either elated or depressed, but is normally laid-back and even-tempered (I have some sensitivity and certain shyness that goes outside the cyclothymic spectrum, but these are not my main traits).

It's weird they call St Francis melancholic. As far as I know, he had a marked sanguine temperament bordering on a manic state. But then it's often said he could've been bipolar, so he might've been like two different people at different times.



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19 Jan 2007, 2:29 pm

I got phlegmatic, but the description is a very poor fit.

  • Is deliberative; slow in making decisions; perhaps overcautious in minor matters.
    I tend to be fast to make decisions (at least small ones) and can become impatient with too much deliberation and nitpicking (unless the nitpicking is my own).
  • Is indifferent to external affairs.
    I am indifferent to gossip and the things most people care about, but I am highly interested in world affairs, politics, and that sort of thing.
  • Is reserved and distant.
    This is true most of the time for me.
  • Is slow in movement.
    I tend to be brisk in movement.
  • Has a marked tendency to persevere.
    I can persevere on things of special interest to me to seemingly no end, but for most things, I can lose interest quickly.
  • Exhibits a constancy of mood.
    I have mood swings.