Originally Posted by
hkkmr
I think EIE or IEI is almost certainly the right typing but there a few things I note in EIE's which you also have.
This part below is my methodology of typing E/I and it's very Jungian, I view extroverts as externalizing their subjectivity and introverts as oriented towards their subjectivity.(probably really bad words here)
You have a extroverted communication style, you tend to externalize internal content and verbalize this in a image constructing fashion. It's still self-conscious and in a way self-absorbed, but you externalize these internal states into a way that others can understand and objectively evaluate. You talk a lot about how other people see you and how other people might see you, as well as describe things that can easily be observed such as (I put a lot of effort in my appearance). I think overall, your initial post is lacking in internal content. You try to express it but it doesn't actually come out that way, everyone has subjective content and it comes out of us whether or not we want it to, however, I find that Extroverts/extratims in socionics tend to objectify, give it the appearance of third party observation or describe it in a way that it appear to be third party observable. This is a trait that I see as the primary difference of E/I in socionics and it's not something we have a lot of control over.
The other part is my experience with EIE's and IEI's. EIE and IEI are two types I have decades of extensive experience with, and I have a good idea how they think and behave, and there's just a lot of things in your first post which leads me to believe you are EIE and not IEI.
A lot of times being self-conscious is just having strong intuition and not related to introversion(oriented towards subjectivity). Intuition is an inactive, contemplative function versus the active action oriented nature of sensing.
