Psychiatrists have recognised a new personality type known as an otrovert

What type of personality are you?

It is now giving a new shape to how we understand human behaviour.

But what does being an otrovert mean, exactly? It’s actually quite simple; it means you are neither fully extroverted nor introverted.

If you are an otrovert, this means you will shift between both of these personality types, so you can blend in more easily, depending on the environment.

In fact, over 38% of people don’t actually fit traditional categories, according to studies in personality psychology.

This is clearly why you may easily feel misunderstood or mislabeled when it comes to your personality type.

What makes you more unique if you are an otrovert, is that you are often more adaptable, socially intelligent and also aware when it comes to your emotions.

An otrovert will thrive in the right social environment, because they will read situations quickly, and they can build stronger relationships and have more flexibility in navigating life, to top it off.

Famous Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung came up with the introvert and extrovert labels to describe personality traits.

And now the term “otrovert” has been coined by pioneering American psychiatrist Rami Kaminski, who says he has recognised this personality type in some of his patients, and even in himself.

“Otro” in otrovert stands for other, and “vert” means to turn, as in divert, convert, invert.

If an introvert looks inwards and an extrovert outwards, what this means if you are an otrovert is that you will look at neither of the above.

According to Kaminski, “their fundamental orientation is defined by the fact that it is rarely the same direction that anyone else is facing.”