Reply To: Ti: Emotional Shutoff

[Quin]

I agree, that section contains some artful description of type 5. Disconnection was the centerpoint of my youth, and I still turn to it in environments or with people I don't trust such as my workplace. I constantly, compulsively (especially as an unconscious behavior) hide myself and don't let people get to know me. I solve my issues alone.
I can still see how the description is warped through a Ti/Fe lens, though, because at my most disconnected from the world, it is still driven by a connection to self. I know what in my life I value and even covet - I have Fi-dar under the hood that drives this behavior. It's that side I don't need the untrusted to see, especially in force - they get to know nothing of my passions or truth, only the mechanical thing that works on the world around it with dispassionate competence.  I guess I fail to form or recognize connections with others in the first place when I don't attach to them or their environment.