Typecasting For the past six months I've been corresponding with someone I knew as a teenager (we worked together and went to the same high school). As I get to know him a little better, what I'm learning about his temperament reminds me of... me.

→[More:]The list of common attributes might read something like this:

* introversion,
* low tolerance for frustration,
* something of a temper,
* prone to holding grudges,
* irritability,
* an inborn drive to create leading to self-chastisement when not regularly creating,
* snobbishness regarding artistic standards (though we're both excited by and quick to acknowledge what we do admire),
* a certain plasticity of intellect that makes us very susceptible and sensitive to our environments and outside influences such as close relationships,
* a very critical, sardonic view point , and of course...
* a high degree of smartassery.


What I'm wondering is, is this a recognizable character "type" or profile of something? Or could it just have been something in the water supply of the small town we're from?;-)