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02 Jan 2011, 11:00 pm

Verdandi wrote:
I tried to fake NT because it's all I knew.


Interesting thought. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has suffered from a lack of a role model like oneself.


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02 Jan 2011, 11:15 pm

Alexandrovna wrote:
I am new to this forum, and have read several threads of it.
And in most of them, if not all for I have not yet read all, everybody's trying to mirror NTs' behavior.
Why, though? Why not just be ourselves?
We are a minority, yes. But aren't we alright being the way we are?
Maybe there is something I am not considering, but I couldn't help to question this to myself and thus question you this too.

I do not mirror an NT's behavior.