EIE+SLI

JOINTLY ACKNOWLEDGED TRAITS:

1. I react very painfully to unwanted touches and unpleasant smells.
2. Many smells often irritate me.
3. The smell and sight of scattered excrement or a particularly dirty trash heap crawling with worms can easily cause in me almost nauseating disgust.
4. I think I feel disgust or revulsion more often than most people.
5. There are people who evoke in me an almost physiological feeling of disgust.
6. I often experience a near-physical sense of repulsion - toward certain foods, smells, animals, or toward the behavior and manner of speech of some people.
7. I often catch myself feeling unpleasant physical sensations.
8. My skin is highly sensitive to touch.
9. I am picky about food.
10. I find it extremely disgusting to listen to jokes about the backside and passing gas.
11. I am rather squeamish and tend to avoid sick people.
12. When unpleasant people are nearby, I cannot distract myself from them, from their appearance and presence.
13. My movements and gestures are characterized by a certain smooth and graceful “mannered” style.
14. I often deliberately move away from a person if, during a conversation, they come too close.
15. I often feel sleepy and tired, wanting to be left alone.
16. I could be called “the princess on the pea” - I am easily irritated by any physical discomfort or inconvenience.
17. I often catch myself feeling unpleasant sensations from food.
18. I quickly notice even very faint unpleasant smells - sharp acidic or putrid ones.
19. Internal body signals and some weak physical sensations sometimes become obsessive for me.
20. The sight of certain well-known public figures causes in me almost physiological disgust.
21. The slightest noise interferes with my reading and work.
22. Before starting to work, I always have to pull myself together, concentrate, and “grow” my muscular and physical tone to the needed level.
23. My skin is very sensitive to touch (sometimes even painfully so).
24. External disturbances - talking, noise, fuss - strongly interfere with my concentration.
25. It’s true that I rarely let anyone touch me or my clothes, whoever I’m speaking or interacting with - even among friends and even in a crowd.
26. I am often distracted and irritated by extraneous smells.
27. In the mornings, I often feel cold, sometimes even shivering slightly.
28. While working, I often notice subtle, high-pitched, whistling sounds - from mosquitoes, a gas burner, the street, etc.

JOINTLY REJECTED TRAITS:

29. Sometimes I catch myself automatically counting random objects - like people in line, buttons on someone’s dress, or the number of letters on signs, etc.
30. I perceive the surrounding world as clay that constantly needs to be molded into something.
31. I rejoice in another’s well-deserved success, even if it’s achieved by my worst enemy.
32. When the TV shows the cartoon series “DuckTales” (about the adventures of Scrooge McDuck, the millionaire duck, and his nephews), I sometimes stop by the screen and watch the episode to the end with pleasure.
33. I can live without any comfort, and even if life becomes very hard, I would never whine.
34. When I can’t “grasp” an idea for a long time, I lie down to nap; by the end of the nap or upon waking, I often find the clear and ready solution.
35. I readily “pick up” other people’s positive emotions.
36. By sound alone, I find it very difficult to distinguish what insect is buzzing behind me - a bee, a wasp, or a fly.
37. When I talk to someone, it generally doesn’t matter to me whether they are a man or a woman.
38. As a rule, I listen to critical remarks with interest and gratitude.
39. My productivity depends very little on who happens to be present in the room.
40. I am indifferent to the comfort of a bed - I fall asleep easily anywhere.
41. I am very tolerant of others’ negative emotions.
42. I have poor memory for melodies.
43. The feeling of physical disgust is practically unfamiliar to me.

So: due to the heightened black Questimity of both types, both are extremely irritable toward any sensory discomfort (smells, touches, drafts, noise), especially when these come from other people, and they tend to fence off their physical space from everyone else. Both (due to hyperactivation of the insular cortex) are prone to strong reactions of disgust and revulsion. This, of course, is a kind of commonality - but there is a high chance that, in shared living conditions, these reactions would end up directed against each other.
Both types also find it difficult to pick up others’ positive emotions, which again is unlikely to help them coexist. Unlike LSI, SLI radiates indifference rather than assertive confidence. Unlike IEE, who can cheer up and energize others with jokes and humor, EIE strikes SLI’s painful spot with its vivid, hysterical negative emotions.
And what do they have positively in common that could unite them? Well, perhaps only a love of music.