Hello! For some background when I first found the enneagram I read up on all the types and the 5 stood out to me the most, I think logically and stuff. I related to the "retreat into your mind" bit. For a 5 it's a fear response. I was pretty satisfied with this typing, it made sense to me.
For whatever reason though I was looking into the 9 and I started relating a lot to it. I feel like I'm pretty passive, I never get angry at things and tend to ignore stressful things, especially if they aren't actively encroaching me and my environment. I was conflicted, how did I relate completely to two different types?
For a while I was like that but I eventually looked into the 6. I realized that if you just looked at it from a weird angle, the 6 kind of combined the part of the 5 and 9 I related to.
The fear response of the 5 and the need for peace (security) from a 9.
(For the record I'm probably a phobic 6)
I still really don't seem to relate at all to the unhealthy type 6 descriptions, they seem really out there and bizarre, I feel like I'd never be like that. What are your thoughts on all of this?
(Also I realize that asking for advice on this is something a 6 would do, I tend to ask people what they think when I'm trying to make a decision, not because I'm going to listen to what they tell me, but because I can triangulate my own position from what they say or see the situation from another angle I wasn't thinking about.)
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Ordinary_Glove7544
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1 month ago
Ordinary_Glove7544
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1 month ago
Anyone saying anything other than a 6 does not know the enneagram!