If you’ve ever taken an introductory psychology class, you may be familiar with “Type A” and “Type B” personalities. Typically, those with Type A personalities are a little more uptight, goal-oriented and like to take charge. Contrarily, those with Type B personalities tend to be more creative, reflective and maintain a less stressful lifestyle in general.
However, if you’re like me, you don’t entirely identify with Type A or Type B. No, there is nothing wrong with you, but you may have a Type X personality. This means you have a crossed personality that is heavily influenced by both Type A and Type B characteristics.
Before I continue, I must admit that a Type X personality isn’t exactly a legitimate personality type in the psychology world, but it’s totally a thing. I took a personality test that gave me a score between 35 and 380, and higher or lower scores were associated with Type A or Type B personalities, respectively. My score was almost in the dead center of the range. So, I’m officially convinced that a Type X personality is the most accurate way to describe myself.
If you’re unsure of whether or not this applies to you, consider how many of the following situations are familiar to you. If you experience 10 or more of these regularly, you might just be a Type X like me.
1. Monday through Thursday you may leap right out of bed at 7 a.m., then spend the entire weekend sleeping.
2. One week, you spend every day studying and doing homework before it’s even assigned. The next week, you scramble to get anything turned in on time.
3. Friday night, you go out with your friends and enjoy the party animal lifestyle. By Saturday night, it seriously takes a toll on your body just to let Netflix know you’re still watching.
4. When assigned a group project, you are only capable of serving as one of two vastly different roles: the leader or the leech.
5. You often agree to take on new and exciting opportunities or leadership positions, but when the time comes to fulfill that commitment, you seriously hate yourself.
6. You’ll text your friends on Tuesday and make super fun plans for the weekend. On Friday, the thought of following through with those plans often seems more like an obligation rather than fun.
7. You like to describe yourself as a “go with the flow” kind of person, but your color-coordinated planner says otherwise.
8. At least 65 percent of your time is spent daydreaming about your successful future; you spend the remaining 35 percent of that time seriously considering dropping out of college and making a living by selling crafts on Etsy.
9. At times, you are certain that you know exactly what you want and when you want it. Other times, you are only certain of what you don’t want, which is basically anything.
10. If you spend a semester working a part-time job, you convince yourself that you’re getting burnt out and need time off. Within two weeks of being unemployed, you are bored to tears.
11. Sometimes you like making your own schedule and decisions, sometimes you have to call your mom and beg her to tell you what you should do (and when you should do it).
12. It’s not unusual for you to start deep-cleaning your room, vehicle or closet, only to become bored within an hour.
13. This also applies to crafting, if you’re the crafty type.
14. You may spend a month lacking emotions completely, then spend the next month crying over toilet paper commercials with puppies in them.
15. You have a really tough time trying to decide whether you want to be powerful and rise to a high social status or live a simple life with your artistic husband and your children, Apple and Granola.
Any of these ring a bell?
