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How rare is The Storm?
“Feel everything. Fear nothing.”
234 of 3,155 takers, 7%, have borderline as their highest axis, which is what makes them The Storm. Only 9% of that group score in the high band on it; the rest lean that way without it dominating. The most common second axis is neurotypical, for 50% of them.
7%
of takers come out The Storm
9%
of them score high on the borderline axis
50%
have neurotypical as their second axis
How strongly they lean
The curve is the borderline score of everyone whose highest axis it is. Type tells you the direction; the band tells you whether it matters.
What The Storm means
You experience emotions at a frequency others can't comprehend. Love is consuming, fear is paralyzing, and anger is volcanic. You're terrified of abandonment, so you test constantly, pushing people away to see who stays.
Defining traits: Intense, rapidly shifting emotions, Fear of real or imagined abandonment, Unstable sense of identity, Pattern of idealization and devaluation, Impulsive, self-sabotaging behaviors.
Frequently asked questions
How rare is The Storm?
7% of 3,155 people who took the Dark Mirror have borderline as their highest axis, which is what makes them The Storm. Only 9% of that group score in the high band on it.
What does The Storm mean on the Dark Mirror?
Feel everything. Fear nothing. You experience emotions at a frequency others can't comprehend. Love is consuming, fear is paralyzing, and anger is volcanic. You're terrified of abandonment, so you test constantly, pushing people away to see who stays.
Is being The Storm a diagnosis?
No. A type is only your highest axis on a twenty-item self-report. Read the band beside it: traits are common, high is rare, and neither is a clinical finding.
Find out if you are The Storm, and how strongly.
Seven minutes, twenty scenarios, then your band and percentile on every axis against everyone above.