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What are the different types of personality disorders? Is it possible for one to transpire from events such as parental death, loss of close friend, and kidnapping? Does this manifest differently in men than women? Would this cause the character to lash out against and be super protective of someone in a nearly manipulative way. I know my character is mentally scarred but as I move into editing I want to make sure I'm getting this right. Thx.

Hooboy, you asked a lot of questions here.

The different types of personality disorders are:

Paranoid

Schizoid

Schizotypal

Antisocial

Borderline

Histrionic

Narcissistic

Avoidant

Dependent

OCPD

(each of those leads to a link to my demystifying series on them. See also the General Personality Disorder Criteria here.)

Personality disorders don’t “start” from singular traumas like you listed there. They’re called “personality disorders” because they fundamentally represent how a character is. They’ve essentially always been like this. See here for some more general qualities of personality disorders as a whole.

Gender rates of personality disorders are pretty skewed. It’s unclear whether these disorders are actually more common in their respective genders or if cultural gender norms and stereotypes are unfairly skewing the results.

More men:

Antisocial

Paranoid

Schizotypal

OCPD

Slightly more men:

Narcissistic

Schizoid 

Roughly equal:

Avoidant

Dependent

Slightly more women:

Histrionic* 

More women:

Borderline

* Rates vary a lot, but it skews female.

Unfortunately, there is not enough data on the prevalence of personality disorders in genders other than male and female.

As for “lashing out and being super protective in a manipulative way” - I’m not sure what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?

And for making sure your character is “mentally scarred” following trauma - I’d look into Post-traumatic stress disorder (see here) or acute stress disorder (see here).

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Personality disorders don’t “start” from singular traumas like you listed there. They’re called “personality disorders” because they fundamentally represent how a character is. They’ve essentially always been like this.

Can you elaborate on this paragraph, please? Especially given the last sentence, it sounds like you’re saying that personality disorders never develop as a result of traumatic experiences.

[scriptshrink]

What I meant was that the “singular” traumas listed by the asker (parental death, loss of close friend, and kidnapping) are not enough to cause a personality disorder to develop. Early, long term abuse in childhood may have some sort of impact on the development of personality disorders, but the link between them isn’t very clear or conclusive like it is for PTSD or DID.

Sorry if I didn’t make that clear!

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Thank you for the clarification!

[scriptshrink]

What are the different types of personality disorders? Is it possible for one to transpire from events such as parental death, loss of close friend, and kidnapping? Does this manifest differently in men than women? Would this cause the character to lash out against and be super protective of someone in a nearly manipulative way. I know my character is mentally scarred but as I move into editing I want to make sure I'm getting this right. Thx.

Hooboy, you asked a lot of questions here.

The different types of personality disorders are:

Paranoid

Schizoid

Schizotypal

Antisocial

Borderline

Histrionic

Narcissistic

Avoidant

Dependent

OCPD

(each of those leads to a link to my demystifying series on them. See also the General Personality Disorder Criteria here.)

Personality disorders don’t “start” from singular traumas like you listed there. They’re called “personality disorders” because they fundamentally represent how a character is. They’ve essentially always been like this. See here for some more general qualities of personality disorders as a whole.

Gender rates of personality disorders are pretty skewed. It’s unclear whether these disorders are actually more common in their respective genders or if cultural gender norms and stereotypes are unfairly skewing the results.

More men:

Antisocial

Paranoid

Schizotypal

OCPD

Slightly more men:

Narcissistic

Schizoid 

Roughly equal:

Avoidant

Dependent

Slightly more women:

Histrionic* 

More women:

Borderline

* Rates vary a lot, but it skews female.

Unfortunately, there is not enough data on the prevalence of personality disorders in genders other than male and female.

As for “lashing out and being super protective in a manipulative way” - I’m not sure what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?

And for making sure your character is “mentally scarred” following trauma - I’d look into Post-traumatic stress disorder (see here) or acute stress disorder (see here).

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Personality disorders don’t “start” from singular traumas like you listed there. They’re called “personality disorders” because they fundamentally represent how a character is. They’ve essentially always been like this.

Can you elaborate on this paragraph, please? Especially given the last sentence, it sounds like you’re saying that personality disorders never develop as a result of traumatic experiences.

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Osteology Museum in Okc. 

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Fossil Hunting Guide

Never apologize. Never.

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tee hee

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Beautifully Realistic Skulls Carved Into Mother Of Pearl Shells by Gregory Halili

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Ink flowing between the cracks in a human hand

Video

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I am Protanopia colour blind, and have a little trouble when it comes to descriptive exposition. I know what colour things are mean to be, but it's hard to really describe something you've never seen. Do you have any tips to help me around this?

The only advice I can give is to keep a database of what colors occur when and where and to read a lot to pick up on descriptions.

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I think it would be much more interesting to describe things as you experience them. But either way, there's more to description than colour.

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How things have changed, eh?

(I put exactly as much effort into this one as I had the first one)

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                                    Write Real People pt. 2                                            click and drag!

ONE RULE: DON’T CLICK AND DRAG UNTIL YOU FIND SOMETHING YOU LIKE!

if you want me to add anything just write me. i’ll add that and update the post!

MBTI, the chance that you get “mentally and physically healthy” is a bit higher, than getting something different

[part 1]

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                     Write Real People                     click and drag game

ONE RULE: DON’T CLICK AND DRAG UNTIL YOU FIND SOMETHING YOU LIKE!

if you want me to add anything just write me. i’ll add that and update the post!

MBTI

I love all the click and drag games on Tumblr and after I read an article about diversity in YA books, I wanted to make a click and drag “game” myself. (i think this was the article, but i’m not sure, sorry)

UPDATED THE GIFSET

NOW WITH GENDER IDENTITY/SEX INSTEAD OF GENDER AND SEX

[part 2]

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I got very bored, and the whiteboard was looking very blank.

"Ka au roch churtuut ii iiket ko" “I’m a tough-tootin’ baby”

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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Khetten, day 3

Now! Adjectives and adverbs. Words are modified in one of two ways to become an adjective, depending on whether they are a comparative or superlative or not. To create a comparative adjective ("bigger," "biggest," etc.) you slap the letters "na" to the front of it, and append an "a" to the end (plus an extra consonant, if the word typically ends in one.) So, if "big" is "foa," the comparative form of it would be "nafoaa." Bigger, then, would be "nafoaa kin." Biggest, "nafoaa kinnet." Non-comparative adjectives are given the suffix "cha," and adverbs have the suffix "nen." Emphasis in khetten relies heavily on word placement, and so where the adjectives or adverbs go in a sentence will depend on what you're trying to say. Putting the descriptee after the descriptor will emphasise the latter ("That's an enormous pickle!") and vice versa for verse vicea ("That pickle's enormous!"). Which is to say, the later in the sentence something is, the more emphasis it gets. Except! That it also depends on what else is going on in the sentence -- whatever descriptor is closest to the noun will have more emphasis than things farther away from it. "You have such soft, red hair" can be said "You have such soft, red hair" or "You have such red, soft hair" or even "You have such soft hair red" if you don't want to draw attention to any descriptor, and would rather draw attention to something else. The exceptions to this are the aforementioned comparatives and superlatives -- those always go in the order of adjective-modifier, so it's always "big very," not "very big" -- and the following explanation of possessions.

Possession is indicated by tacking "m'" to something -- "m'kint" ("my thing"). If you don't follow that up by a pronoun, the implication is that the thing belongs to the speaker. You could also follow it up with the personal, first person pronoun if you don't want to leave it up to interpretation -- "m'kint ko." But then again, maybe it isn't my thing -- maybe it's your thing ("m'kint sa") or their thing ("m'kint sei") or its thing ("m'kint se"). Maybe it's even our thing ("m'kint sako").

Penultimately, plurals are treated much the same way in Khetten as they are in English -- "al" is tacked onto the end of nouns that need pluralising.

Now, I suppose it's time to talk a little bit about pronunciation. I mentioned that there are seventeen to nineteen letters, and you can see them all here:

(a brief note that calling it "right handed" or "left handed" is a little misleading, it really is down to writer preference -- whichever looks better to them at the time. But it does tend that kets writing with their right hand will favour the letters on the left, and the kets writing with their left hand will favour the letters on the right)

There are, of course, variations within the language, but pronunciation is pretty standard for individual letters. "A" makes the sound like in "bat," "E" makes the sound like in "let," "I" makes the sound like in "pig," "O" makes the sound like in "hog," "U" makes the sound like in "tug," so on and so forth. Example exceptions are "ce" ("ksay") and "ku" ("coo"). On the whole, though, the pronunciations are predictable.

Letters are modified in two ways -- the first is by doubling. Doubled vowels make two sounds, the second is their standard pronunciation. The first is the hard version of their pronunciation. So "aa" becomes "ay-uh." "Ee" is "ee-eh," "ii" is sort of like "yih," "oo" is "oh-uh," and "uu" is "ooh-uh." Doubled consonants do not double their sounds, but do modify the pronunciation in that they tend to make the sound harder. "Khetten" has a bit of a push on the "t" sound in the middle.

The second modification is by sticking an "h" onto a letter -- most often a consonant. You may already be familiar with this combination, given "ch," "th," and "sh" in English. This softens the letter it's attached to -- "Kh" is a sort of hissy "k" sound (but is still harder than the "ch" sound, which could be compared to the phlegmy pronunciation some languages have of the combination).

And a special bonus for the people who stuck around this long: how to count to nine in Khetten.

‬Hain Vo Che Cair Cuig Ro Vaun Sel Char

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So. In the 1800s, people were really into history and authors. Like, if you wanted to know what a poem meant, you would learn all about the life and times of the author, and then you somehow would get the poem. Then, about a hundred years ago, some people people pointed…