Hey if you wanted to make a pacific rim uid for yourself, how would you scale the numbers/letters for the rating scales
I've been thinking about this ask for a few days now, because I hadn't quite gotten around to figuring out the exact particulars, to be honest.
I haven't quite figured out CORO profiles yet, but I suspect it's a sliding scale, potentially from most non-linear/free-associative/lateral-thinking at the low end of the scale, to most linear/analytical/vertical-thinking at the high end. DON'T QUOTE ME ON THIS AS THE FINAL VERDICT, I'm not completely married to this chunk of theory yet because I could really go any number of ways on what people with similar scores have in common, but I'm rolling with that for the purposes of this question.
So far as HSP goes, basically, how well do you work with others? How easily do you trust others? Can you read other people well, can you reliably tell how someone else is feeling whether they're openly broadcasting it or not, are you empathetic? Can you compromise with people you don't agree with, or that you find distasteful? How well do you handle social stresses? How successful are you at gauging and navigating crowds of strangers? (Note: this is not pertaining to gifts or limitations of physical ability. It's more in adapting to the flow of human traffic, stepping aside before nearly colliding with a distracted person on the sidewalk, matching the stride of the person in front of oneself, watching for gaps to escape the crush of people... if anything, people with disabilities, whether physical or otherwise, have to be better at navigating groups than the fully-able because they always need be on the lookout for a way through or a way out.)
The easier a time you have with the above, the higher your theoretical score and range of compatibility with others. I'm pretty sure one's HSP also isn't a static number, it can change over the course of one's life. (Working at a high-stress job that absolutely requires cooperation with others in order to make it through the workday, sink or swim, would broaden one's index substantially.)
With your Keeler rating, it basically boils down to your fight-or-flight response. How easily do you panic? How high (or low) is your threshold for threat perception? Are you easily triggered? This isn't a measure of how you handle your stressors, it's a measure of how quickly or easily your stress response kicks on. It isn't a character flaw or a sign of weakness to have a letter nearer to the end of the alphabet than the front, it just means being aware of and watching out for the possibility of more hiccups in the drift than someone closer to the beginning.
SO KEEPING ALL THAT IN MIND, how would I rate myself? What's Confab's UID? I don't have to guess if there's curiosity out there, I read the tags on reblogs of my drift sci post, a lot of people were wondering what their UIDs would be.
J: Process of elimination. I'm not a scientist, and I don't have the personality to be a ranger, much less the physical hardiness. I'm twenty-nine and I already have early-onset osteoarthritis in my knees, and I dislocated a tendon in my shoulder three months ago lifting something that weighed less than a bottle of soda. Plus I'm not aggressive enough to beat a monster to death.
ESAT: Estee Saturn, at your service. (Hell naw, I'm not giving out my real last name in a public forum.)
760: I might be a hardcore introvert who simultaneously loathes and fears people in general, but I've worked in retail my entire adult life; the loudness I use to hide just how quiet I actually am also does a fantastic job of concealing the fact that I'm a monster who only needs an hour and a conversation to figure out how to unravel and/or otherwise totally dismantle another human. I read people frighteningly well. Also, I work in a busy-as-fuck coffeeshop, where my being able to read my coworkers emotionally and physically is absolutely consonant in not injuring myself or anyone else. We're dodging sharp objects and boiling liquids at high speed, y'all.
Buuuuuuuuuuuut I have a temper, and my mechanism for handling it is to go silent and closed off, so I don't say whatever springs to mind, and/or throw a pitcher of scalded milk at anyone. I can, in theory, work with anyone, but there are people I wouldn't let near my head because I'd happily shred them.
14: My brain is reeeeeeeeeeeeeally full of ADHD. I cross areas of interest all willy-nilly because I see connections everywhere. Logic is not my friend.
T: See above re: my hideous temper, but see also my ADHD and associated emotional lability, plus also being one wheaty incident from literal psychosis or dissociation at any given moment. And just for grins, the Nervous Collapse of 2006 and a tendency toward anxiety attacks. I can reason my way through a lot, but I could easily rip the floor out from underneath someone else.
