[Robert31]

I am having a problem with who I am. I have ever since I was a child wondered who I was. I know my name and all that, but I don't have any sense of who I am. This probably sounds strange. Most people have their identity in who they are or what they do. I was a very good student and engineer. Now that I am neither.... . I have always wondered what everybody felt in reference to their place in the world. I see myself as an outsider to the rest of the world. I wonder what my place is and what I am here for.

[pachyderm]

Identity = knowing what one's genuine thoughts and feelings are at any time. There are reasons why someone would not know those things, having their origins mostly in childhood.

FWIW...

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[Perna]

I would start by looking at the external and seeing if you can find some internal to "match". Why did you become an engineer? You could have been an architect or car mechanic, a physicist or an electrician, plumber, or some other trade. How did you keep going through the 4-5 years to become an engineer?

[VoNPD]

My own measuring sticks are the constants. Are there any thoughts, ideas or feelings I have that do not change with my ups and downs. Those then would be what define me as who I am.

I suppose over my lifetime I have been different things (persons). Who I was in the 80's is not who I am in the '00's. But I've always been creative (artist by trade); always interested in science and medical things; always interested astronomy and where earth falls into the scheme of things; always been aware of God and Faith working in my life; always loved flowers and flight.

just me. No one special.

[Doh2007]

I understand. It wasn't until a therapist had me take the Myers-Briggs Inventory that I found out who I was and became more of who I'm meant to be. Here's the book that changed my life:
http://www.amazon.com/Please-Underst...3969907&sr=8-1

I've noticed that the NF types are the ones who cherish this book. The NT types want to argue with it and refuse to be categorized. The SP types are having too much fun to care and the SJ types think everyone should be like them.

[Robert31]

Thank you very much. I haven't heard or ever taken the test. I will look up the book in the library and let you know what I find out.

[Doh2007]

I hope you enjoy the journey. What I learned was that my type occurs in only about 1% of the population. Someone told me, "If you feel like people don't understand you, it's because they don't"

There are probably more Intuitive types online than out in the world, which is cool. Kiersey calls Intuitives "extraterresterals." (Lovingly)

[BalishBun]

I think at one point I wondered the same thing...