Do E7s mistype as 1s and 5s often?
What makes a person a certain Enneagram type? I relate to the core motivation of Type 7, but I don’t act or at least I don’t think I act like any of the E7 descriptions. It took me four years to even consider being a Type 7 because whenever I took Enneagram tests, I got either E5 or E1. I relate to most of the descriptions of both types, but I don’t relate to the core motivation of E5.
I would say that my core motivation is being fulfilled. I want to have FUN the RIGHT way. It’s very important to me that I live a life free from pain, but in the “right” way according to my standards of what’s right and wrong. I accumulate knowledge because it’s fun and a form of distraction. Plus, I never do anything without doing at least some sort of research because I hate wasting time and resources or doing something I would consider wrong.
To make things even weirder, when I asked my sister to take an Enneagram test as me, her results were E5, with E1 closely behind. When I did a similar thing with my close friends, most of them agreed that I’m 7w8.
I know that type descriptions are usually very stereotypical, and I shouldn’t pay too much attention to them, but I feel too strict for an E7, too spontaneous for an E5, and too “heady” for any gut type, and that genuinely bothers me. Unlike everyone else, I actually want to put myself in a box, lol. I’m low-key obsessed with understanding how I work, and I want it to make sense.
P.S. There’s a meager chance that I’m an attachment type, so I don’t even consider E6.