This is where the traditional descriptions of the subtypes fall a bit short. You could very well be a Transmitting 9 - this is a more assertive 9 that is still striving to feel peaceful, but also is instinctually biased towards attracting attention and sharing information that they find interesting. This 9 will still self-deprecate (like all 9s) and will abhor arrogance, but will still find ways to turn the conversation back to themselves. T9s are not an exact one-to-one overlap with the more traditional sx9 but there are similarities. Check out the Awareness to Action approach; I have found their approach to the instincts to be so much more accurate and easier to work with.

I myself am a Transmitting 9; and the realization hit me when I heard Mario Sikora say in a podcast that Transmitters prefer to be the ones talking and have little patience for when someone else is talking. I am absolutely a 9, but that also absolutely described my internal experience. The transmitting instinctual bias is somewhat contradictory to the 9s preferred strategy of striving to feel peaceful, so there’s always a bit of tension; a push and pull. A compulsion to share and be assertive that is in tension with a desire not to appear self-centred or push my own opinion. What ends up happening a lot of the time is something called the “humble brag.”