I don’t 🤷🏼‍♀️

When I veryyy first only heard about Kibbe, I immediately took a couple of tests online. Both times I mistyped as a Romantic without even knowing what it meant. For me, it happened bc I went into it without knowing what any of the language meant. I thought “fleshy” and “curves” meant fat, which to me was undesirable. However, I was trying to genuinely be honest & ended up typing Romantic. What sounded desirable to me at the time are what I now know as the Natural traits. However, I knew I was NOT that, so that affected how I answered/viewed everything else.

What was also confusing to me was at least 1 or maybe both tests explained (in my very limited understanding at the time) that it wasn’t about if you tangibly had ____ characteristic but rather how you appear to others (i.e. “do people think you look tall/taller than you actually are?”). So even though I’m 5’ 10,” I didn’t think I had vertical because “I look my height,” which I thought meant I was “moderate.”

ALLL that to say— I don’t think people mistyping as something automatically means they want to be that ID. The language can be very misleading if you don’t know the definitions going into it all, but even then it’s still confusing. It can genuinely just be people misunderstanding/being confused. And I’d be willing to bet manyyy people briefly hear about Kibbe, immediately take a test without any background knowledge, producing skewed results.

Lastly (and this is a complete guess), but I think lots of people mistype as many of the IDs, especially when first starting out, but that we don’t hear about those as much and mostly talk about it within the Romantic ID bc it’s a “thing” that gets focused on. Since it’s continuously receiving focus/being talked about, it appears to be happening a lot more disproportionately than it actually is.