Whoa!

[katster]

"I'm a real INFP--I shut down if I'm supposed to work on something that's meaningless to me."

wintersweet mentioned this in the middle of a thesis rant, and it was like receiving a clue by four right in between the eyes. It explains so *damn* much.

More on this later as I process the thoughts here.

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me too! :)

[vacheestfachee.livejournal.com]

I'm an INFP too (and I read some of your early stuff about INFP-ness :). Maybe that's why I procrastinate so much on my school work... the projects where I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to make or why... where I just know it's not going to be right... and then I make it at the last minute so I have *something* to hand in. On the other hand, things that are meaningful to me get done fairly promptly.

My digital video project should be going really well since it's about my life, but, no, my professor has indicated that it really needs to be about recovery. If I can't get across to my class what it's like to live with dissociation, how am I supposed to show them what it's like, what it means, to come out of it? *sigh* *end rant*

Anyway, like I was saying, I feel you on that one.

Hmmm maybe...

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

If I can't get across to my class what it's like to live with dissociation,
how am I supposed to show them what it's like, what it means, to come out of it?

I had minor dissociation issues a few years ago, so this might be entirely irrelevant to you, but I thought you might be able to film some sort of scene, and then suddenly cut to a later scene (clocks in the background might help, or be too obvious). Do that a few times at random intervals, and you'll have a rather confused audience.

THEN you can come right-out and say - "THIS is what dissociation is like. You loose your continuity, your time-line!"