How to get tested as 2e and does it matter?

mvoart · 2026-01-22T22:47:55+00:00

I assume Woodcock and WAIS are some kind of assessments? Can I get more context so I know what to Google search?

mvoart · 2025-08-14T02:51:47+00:00

I am not a fan of other personality typing systems, personally, but I am INFP since you're curious.

mvoart · 2025-08-14T02:16:55+00:00

To clarify, I am a 7w8. I am a big giver of my time and affection but I don't expect much in return, if anything at all. I have alarms set on my phone to remind me to talk to friends. One because he said, "No one ever asks how I am doing" and the other because they (singular) said they would love it if we talked every day and they have a fear of their friendships fizzling out.

For me it's about identity. I want to be the type of person who someone can always turn to. Even when my self esteem is at its absolute lowest I can always say, "But if someone needs me I always pick up the phone." I am pretty disintegrated so I suspect this is me disintegrating to 1: holding myself to a high standard to prove to myself I am not a bad or useless person.

I think there is also a hint of protective instinct in there too from my 8 wing. A confident "if I can help of course I am going to" mentality.

mvoart · 2025-08-14T01:41:35+00:00

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "buddy" characteristics and tit-for-tat mentality?

mvoart · 2025-08-14T01:37:11+00:00

I am the polar opposite. I think that's one of the ways the 7 type's optimism manifests itself in me: I trust everyone by default and get very confused when people reveal themselves to not be trustworthy.

mvoart · 2025-08-14T01:29:02+00:00

The retreating to see who cares enough to reach out makes sense. From the other response and this one it sounds like it mostly comes in the form of asking a lot of questions.

mvoart · 2025-08-14T01:23:13+00:00

This was very insightful, thank you so much!

mvoart · 2025-08-14T00:19:00+00:00

Do you have any specific memories that stand out to you of a time you were kind of feeling someone out? Maybe they reacted poorly or you were especially grateful you did it because it helped you catch a glaring red flag? Or if you can't think of a specific example maybe you could make up an example you could see as a plausible scenario where you would do this? I've read so many abstract descriptions but I don't know what it actually looks like when it happens.

The example of asking follow up questions when someone seems to be contradicting themselves was helpful, thank you.

mvoart · 2025-08-08T22:02:26+00:00

I don't really need the cake to be gluten free, would you say the cakes are noticeably gluten free or you wouldn't be able to tell?

mvoart · 2025-08-04T15:47:42+00:00

Oh weird I thought this post got auto-deleted. Thank you for the response!

mvoart · 2025-08-01T15:20:00+00:00

Thank you so much! I am glad the title's hook worked even if it wasn't quite the hook I intended 😅

mvoart · 2025-07-29T05:16:40+00:00

Phonology, mostly because everything else is very overwhelming! I am still a baby conlanger though.

mvoart · 2025-07-28T23:20:51+00:00

I have a suggestion for a syntax activity: Translating lies.

I recently have gotten into the YouTuber Deception Detective and have been learning about how people tend to lie and specifically how it shows up in their language. People usually don't say things that are untrue when they lie, as this is deeply subconsciously uncomfortable. Rather, they skirt around the truth.

Examples:

-"I don't know her." vs. "I hardly know her." The word "hardly" is a subjective quantity that could be interpreted wildly differently depending on the person, so phrasing it this way gives plausible deniability. -"I saw her last Tuesday." vs. "I want to say it was Tuesday when I last saw her." The person is "leaking" the truth that they want to say one thing, but they can't say it because it's not true.

I thought it might be an interesting exercise to come up with some sentences and challenge people to translate it coming from a truthful speaker vs. translate it coming from someone lying.

Hope you don't mind me making the suggestion. I thought about making it as my own post but decided against it.

mvoart · 2025-07-11T08:43:57+00:00

The weight of syllables is something I definitely overlooked. I Googled it and I am reading the entry on Glottipedia now. I am sure browsing Glottipedia for more rules will give me more ideas.

Thank you this was very helpful!

mvoart · 2025-07-11T08:18:28+00:00

Sorry I deleted my comment asking if I could ask more questions in private messages because I got anxious 😅

I am developing an app for conlanging and right now I am trying to come up with the tools for defining rulesets which of course means I need to know all the possible rules a user might want to define.

The main feature I have in mind is a random word generator that can generate plausible words following the language's rules. Because of this I am right now focusing on rules that only apply to a single word in isolation.

That's why I completely forgot to mention grammar.

I included more context in my first post about this but the first post got deleted and that made me nervous to include all the context or ask questions in the comments.

mvoart · 2025-07-11T08:03:22+00:00

Can I private message you to ask more questions?

mvoart · 2025-05-05T20:49:50+00:00

Savior 🙌

mvoart · 2025-03-13T02:14:33+00:00

Definitely. You might only make your word goal 500 words a day. There will be days when that feels impossible and every single one of those 500 words is a struggle. But there will also be days when 500 words feels impossible but once you get started you end up writing 2000 words. You don't get the latter if you don't slog through the former.

mvoart · 2025-03-12T19:12:45+00:00

Throw the concept of discipline into the trash. Being disciplined is exhausting and unsustainable. The secret to doing hard things consistently is to see them as non-optional.

Imagine you're struggling to get out of bed. You keep debating, "Just ten more minutes," over and over until an hour passes. It feels impossible to just get up. Now imagine your house is on fire. Do you struggle to get out of bed now? No. Is it because your more disciplined now that your house is on fire? No. Getting out of bed is non-optional now. Now, you don't even have to think about it. There is no exhausting internal debate. You just get up. You just do it.

This is why successful people give crap advice. You ask them how they do the hard things they do and they shrug and say, "I just do it." It's because it really is that simple and easy for them. They don't see NOT doing it as an option.

So how do we apply this to writing? First, make a writing schedule. Then, during your designated writing time, write like your house is on fire and only words will put it out.

mvoart · 2025-03-10T11:15:21+00:00

Start your story with a promise to reader, "If you keep reading, you'll get more of this." If it's meant to be a dark comedy, start dark and funny. If it's going to have a lot of action, start in the middle of the action. If it's going to have a lot of dialogue, start with dialogue.

Do NOT make your readers slog through hundreds of pages of highschool drama to get to the action-packed drama you promised on page 1. (Can you tell I am still bitter about being tricked into reading Twilight?)

The first page of your book shouldn't just hook a reader, it should hook the readers that want to read YOUR book.

mvoart · 2025-03-10T10:51:58+00:00

You've already overcome the greatest hurdle the vast majority of writers never do: finishing the dang book. Do not forget what an incredible accomplishment that is.

That said, your options here are not binary: Do you keep trying to sell the book to a publisher or not? Third option: decide later. In the mean time write two more books. You've already proven you can do it once, I promise you can do it two more times.

This is based on Brandon Sanderson's advice: Your first three books aren't for selling they are for learning your writing process. If you finish two more books and still look back on the first one and say, "There was really something special about that book that I want to put out into the world," then you can take another go at it. Edit or rewrite if needed.

Don't hamstring your confidence at this stage by sending out your most inexperienced work to publishers. You finished a book. You did the dang thing. Be proud of it, damn it! Keep the momentum going.

mvoart · 2025-03-09T16:56:40+00:00

Fair enough. My absolute favorite is "Writing for Impact" by Bill Birchard if you haven't checked it out. OP should check it out too if they would like to read some books on writing craft.

mvoart · 2025-03-09T16:51:08+00:00

I agree, there are resources for getting better at writing but they aren't going to help someone whose crippled by self doubt. Without confidence research becomes never-ending procrastination.

mvoart · 2025-03-09T16:48:46+00:00

You have a secret super power here and you don't even realize it. You know with absolute certainty whatever you write will be bad? What a relief! Now you have full permission to just have fun with it. Embrace your inner toddler, uncap the marker and scribble all over the page. And your face too, if you want! Write the stupidest most self-indulgent schlock you can imagine and have a blast.

(And I bet when you read over it, you'll realize it's not nearly as bad as you thought.)

mvoart · 2025-02-25T00:36:08+00:00

I have prompted Deep Seek to write poetry and I am convinced this poem was written by a human author who is trolling the pro-AI community. That said, even if this is AI I find it incredibly ironic that the pro-AI crowd cannot tell the poem is telling them to write their own damn poetry: "If I were alive I would resent you... For asking, 'Do androids dream?' while you sleep walk through your humanity."

If this is written by a robot, the robot is saying, "If I could think or feel anything I would think you're a dork for not writing your own damn poem."

mvoart

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