Do you fit this description?

[donna]

Nope I dont have any of those traits, not sure what the last one means though!

[Andrew MacLean]

somatic |səˈmatik; sÃ…Â

[Andrew MacLean]

Ali, now we have two mutually exclusive personality traits: we are both somatically oriented and intellectual!

I could clean up on the "personality assessment" circuit. If you pile on the adjectives, you increase the number of hits until you say everything about everybody and we all recognize ourselves in there somewhere.

I quite like the idea of being a "cone". Sounds a lot better than "keratoconic", but I'd still prefer not to be defined by a diesase with which I happen to live.

Andrew

[Pat A]

Andrew
You speak in a foreign language...............in plain common English (or Scottish I will accept!) please! I'm just a (natural) blonde, female, senior, southerner...nearly an Essex girl (with apologies to anyone from Essex!) ...

Pat

[Andrew MacLean]

Pat

I was just browsing and came across a paper that said:
Ophthalmologists have long speculated about the existence of a "keratoconic personality," described as paranoid, anxious, compulsive, and somatically oriented.
To be honest I fit the bill, does anyone else?

"somatically oriented" means that we are focused on the physical (body) rather than the intellectual (mind). But Ali suggested that we are intellectual rather than somatic.

These two are set up as polar opposites. The idea is that you can be one or the other but not both. Yet Val suggests that one has been identified as typical of people with KC and Ali suggest that the other is typical of us.



Andrew

ps I just noticed that the emoticons have lost their christmas hats.

[Michael P]

In my experience majority are delightful and only a few can be awkward. The main characteristic is they are highly intelligent (there are exceptions though!)

Oh dear Pat, the majority are "highly intelligent"; I fear we are the exceptions then!

[Michael P]

Wow, the posts on this thread are coming in thick and fast.

Andrew I'll set aside an hour or two to get my head round your kind explanation

[jayuk]

well it is true...its "meant" to be the intelligent mans/women disease!....at least thats what it was known as in the early 80's!

[Pat A]

Andrew
Oh dear - my posts have suggested I'm certainly not intellectual!!
But I am focussed on the physical body in some ways - goodness knows I've enough of it to focus on! (Hows the diet going Andrew? I've lost 2 lbs this week - yippee!)

Michael
But I thought I was intelligent - I've certainly managed to fool a lot of people over the years if I'm not!

Pat

[John Smith]

An interesting topic - but I'm left wondering whether I had KC because of certain personality traits, or whether I developed those traits because I was genetically predisposed to KC?

Ali's not alone in his observations though. Ken Pullum's talk at an AGM a few years ago said pretty much the same things about us as a group of people... and he even went on to describe KC as a "seemingly middle-class disease"!