This is something that I feel applies to trauma and neurodiversity in general…
My issue is when someone has something like ADHD, autism, or a traumatic background, it is very easy to read someone on a surface level.. Without looking at their lines, a lot..
If people were to look at a person who has ADHD, they would be thinking they are a 7 core.. Because of the spontaneous, assertive-like behavior that accompanies ADHD…
ADHD generally presents in extroverts, however, ADD can very well present in an introvert..
I have seen people type others as a 9, mostly it is EU people I’ve seen this from, because the person has a hard time initiating…. And is scattered…
In these ways, it can look 7, and if you’re going to really zoom in on this, 9.
I have studied CPTSD a bit, because I have it. I noticed that the CPTSD description by Pete Walker is heavily biased to a 469/649 Tritype.. And I feel this is because Walker is himself a 964.
PTSD in itself does look very 6ish.. This is why I wasn’t just immediately disputing that the many people who type me as a 5 fix, could’ve been on to something. (And I am autistic, which autism overlaps 5 in ways of many).. I do believe 6 fix best explains my head. However, I am not going to say it is impossible for me to be a triple withdrawn if all this behavior is the act of my nervous system, and my 2 line making me more bleed out.. It’s unlikely, but I am pretty fucked up, and my nervous system is damaged. (I wouldn’t be able to be a 451, because I’m nkt double competence).
PTSD results in a hypervigilant nervous system, dissociation (9 core or 6’s 9 line) and PTSD can mimic the projection of a core 6, because of the trauma wiring in the hippocampus, that will make someone react to what they perceive as their traumatic stimulus…
Autism has the largest marigin of any presentation, to be easily misinterpreted, I feel.
Autism has a lot of symptoms and developmental traits, that if one doesn’t look at actual line movement, can be misinterpreted by others..
The biggest barrier in the way, is the theory of mind deficit in autism.
I explained it in my yesterday post, but theory of mind essentially is being in a constant default state of first person. Someone who is autistic cannot understand how something makes another person feel, or how they think, until they manually through pattern, can grasp it from a neurotypical point of view.
Theory of mind deficit results in a lot of behaviors, that can mask as looking like certain motivations..
Someone with a theory of mind deficit may need a lot of help on social matters, for instance. And it isn’t about lacking an inner guidance system, but rather lacking the cognitive empathy to be able to read a person.. So, an autistic person may sometimes, ask another person what a behavior means, or something, because there’s a lack of theory of mind.
A lot of people can mistake that as a core 6, or an attachment behavior..
I do feel that attachment type autistic people would ask more questions in a clique way… But.. I explained in my post yesterday, how I actually would expect a 4 or a 5 to have the worst theory of mind…
My reasoning in this, is because a 4 and a 5 is not a very adaptive ego structure, and the withdrawn hexad structure makes for more isolation, and thus, less opportunity to gather a pattern base to substitute the theory of mind deficit…..
Whilst a social 4 or 5, I see the most likely to have conspicuous enough autism to diagnose very early on, the social blind would have the worst theory of mind, because there’s no social output… (Thus there is almost no opportunity to manually learn).
It’s just because a social blind 4 or 5 is a lot less likely to put their selves into focus on social sphere, they are a lot less likely to be noticed for their autism, and so it really wouldn’t be as noticeable…
This is far from the only mimic theory of mind can misconstrue for a certain type as, and a theory of mind deficit is afar from the only autistic symptom that can misinterpret for a type, if behavior, rather than line and motive are the focus..
Theory of mind lack will make it harder for an onlooker to read the motive, though, because autism results in communicative impairments.
Someone with theory of mind deficit in a sort of similar way a PTSD person can look as if they project, can look like they’re projecting.
Because they are reading how a person’s behavior reads in THEIR OWN mind, rather than the other person, because there is an inability to read in the second person/tense.
Someone with autism can look like they choose to ignore social rules, especially if the person with autism is an adult, where there is universal social expectation to better know…
Someone can mistake this as a brash enneagram type, who is more prone to the disregarding of another.
However, the thing is, is that an autistic person can still do all these things. But there is no way to know, without talking to an autistic person… It will be much harder to read the motivation in a person who lacks cognitive empathy (theory of mind).
Developmental delay and obsessive focus are the other two autistic symptoms that can very easily misinterpret. There are some people who can possibly mistake autistic sensory overload as a 9, especially if the person who interviews an autistic person isn’t literal enough, and the person with autism is thinking more in their reaction to sensory input…
With developmental delay… Someone can mistake an autistic person as being dependent on others, because they aren’t developed enough to be independent.
Every person with autism has a developmental delay in motor skill ability, social/emotional maturity, executive, and/or intellectual capacities. This is why what is known as “low functioning autism”, with their lack of intellectual development, forever stunt at the social behavior as a child’s, combined with their executive abilities.
With what formerly knew as Asperger’s, there isn’t a delay in intellectual capacity. This is actually what separated Asperger’s from lower functioning autism. There actually is even a pattern for people with Asperger’s to intellectually be with precocity. Which I had explained how I feel hyperlexia to correlate to social a 4 or 5, before. 88% of people with hyperlexia are diagnosed with autism.. This isn’t something I factored in, but this goes back to my entire point that social 4 and 5 autism is the most likely to be very early on diagnosed. (My reasoning is that a social focus will make one more attuned on language patterns in speech, and 4 and 5 are withdrawn enough to obsess on word and letter patterns, like how I showed my childhood pictures), and ignore other children, and instead focus obsessively on the words and letters.
But the delays in executive and social/emotional areas can be very severe. This is why Asperger’s actually got removed, because it was a misnomer to call Asperger’s “high functioning autism”.
All these delays, I feel, feed into one another….
If someone has executive impairments, they are less likely to be able to socially go out, and then environmental delays add to the already inherent, genetic social delay.
To paint a picture, a person with what formerly knew as Asperger’s can be in their early twenties, but functioning at the social-emotional level of fourteen, when compared to a neurotypical. Their executive ability can be that of a five year old child’s.
Then to throw off further, the person can in the intellectual sense, be developed to that of a PhD graduate’s…. And it is this intellectual advancement that will also mislead an onlooker.
These delays can misinterpret their own self. As I mentioned with the judging in chronological age, for the person’s development.. When in some areas there isn’t enough development…
Think of it as being blind in a social sense. A person with physical eyes wouldn’t be able to walk without the aid of externality.. Being autistic is as if being blind in cognitive empathy/theory of mind, and then crippled.
Now, one crippled person can choose a wheel chair to be more independent, or they would have someone look after them. This, if the person actually is developed enough to go independently, would more be enneagram motivation.. But, some people with their autism, still wouldn’t be developed enough to be able to just have their own motor-powered wheel chair.
In some areas with a person who would have once classified Asperger’s, you can be looking at a teenager, young adult, or adult, who is a child developmentally in some areas.
How the person reacts to being disabled can be an indication of the enneagram. If they try their hardest to be independent even if they can’t be, if they want sympathy and attention for it, if there’s complete learnt helplessness outside of areas there isn’t an actual impairment in… If they use it to feel separate from another… If they try and read every single thing possible about their disability to try master and be competent in it…
These would more be the realm of enneagram.
The only thing is that there is also obsessive focus. So the whole studying autism obsessively wouldn’t automatically make the person with autism a 5. It would if the autistic person was doing it to gain more competence to feel more secure in the world…
The trying adapt to others would be an autism mean. This shit right here:
https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/autism-masking
That is your 9, 3, or 6 core with autism, and more so your 9.
Whereas this right here, where I fall under, would be more a 4 or 5;
https://www.aane.org/young-adults-on...and-isolation/
The fear of joining the world and not being ready for it and isolating and spending time online and researching all day, that is the 5 core, trying to gain more competency to feel more secure in the world…
Feeling flawed fundamentally, alien, and irritated by how neurotpyicals and even non neurotypicals live is a 4… As is the feeling out of sync with the world and envying others who have what they do not.
The not joining the world because not feeling yet an adult isn’t on enneagram in the direct sense, because that is autistic developmental delay, and actually being socially-emotionally more a teenager or child. (And the executive impairments that are more at a child’s would also make to less feel an adult as well, with the not as much being able to responsibly budget money, for an instance).
However, I do believe that a 4 and 5 would be the least likely to be developed in this sense, because of the withdrawal. The withdrawal means there is less social experience, and thus there is an added environmental social delay to the genetic.
If someone is not joining the adult world because they need a mentor to introject, this would more be a 6…
I do feel 4, 5, and 6 with non-intellectually impaired autism, are the most likely to be dependent longer.
Whilst theory of mind is definitely the biggest barrier when coming to enneagram, from an onlooker’s perspective, the autism obsessive focus is probably the next biggest detractor from seeing the type…
Obsessive focus can look very core 6, 5, or 1.
The obsession isn’t isolated to one thing and is generalized.. Whereas, I feel, in enneagram, it would confine to one aspect. A 5 would obsess only on the things they are trying to specialize in (which the instinctive lead determines where this goes to, it can go to learning about a partner, for instance).
For a 6, the obsessive attachment would be solely to what makes a person feels secure, such as an ideology or support person..
And for a 1.. It is about perfectionism and right ideals. It can also manifest as a form of “right methods”…
In autism.. It is global; there will be fixation on people, concepts, their own self, trauma, and just about anything. The obsession is a default state and is of cognition, it isn’t emotional, even though what obsesses on will inevitably draw up emotions….
Sensory overload is the final thing that I see as being something that can misconstrue in autism…
It is the least likely to, I feel.. But if it is what primarily focuses on, or an autistic person just came out of a sensory overload and has fixated on it (these things all tie into one another, as you can see).. Then there is a chance the person can streotype as a 9.
The thing is that an SP9 can mimic autism sensory overload. Sensory integrative disorder I feel, would over-present in 9..
Autism sensory overload happens when a stimulus is too intense for the autistic brain to handle and process, so it shuts off and more input will make for emotional instability. Emotions can also do this to autism, when they are intense enough and result in enough sensory pressure that cannot tolerate..
The person can also just build up and when it gets too much, burst…..
That wouldn’t be related to dissociation or a repression of anger, as in the 9.. It wouldn’t be a matter of suppressing taboo, dissonant emotion in a fear of disconnecting from peace… (Be it social or sensory environment peace)..
A 9 core with autism woukd fear their autism resulting in disharmony, and would try depress synltoms, which I showed the autism masking.. That is mostly an autistic 9, but it also can be a 6 or 3.
I am not talking about symptoms with autism like severe stimming, where if you stimm on the street, police will call and you will lock up in jail or a psych ward—where every person with autism when out in public, is forced to suppress this if they do not want trouble with law.. But just every aspect of autism, really. Fear of causing others emotional inconvenience and upset with the social issues, milder stimming, disorganization.. Where the 9 really tries to adapt at their own expense until they sicken. An INFJ autistic 9 would be at most risk, is what I see. Where patterns more easily pick up, and they go to the Fe to try mask…
As can be seen to you now, with what I’ve illuminated to the enneagram community conscious, there is a wide marigin to misinterpret someone who presents on the spectrum. It would be harder if where the person situated, further is into spectrum.
Keep this in your mind when trying type someone with autism… And look more for the lines, since the lines really are not something that can fuck up when coming to autism, unless the onlooker is dumb.