I remember that you had a post about people often mistyping themselves as 358 because this tritype is often seen as "cool". But can such a problem occure with 268? This tritype is often called "the Rescuer", and as a 6-8-2 myself, I can definitely see where this name comes from. But I also can see that people may choose it because of this cool name, without actually realising that being a "rescuer" means not only cool superhero-ish stuff but also a big bunch of flaws which can make your life rather difficult and stressful because of your own instincts.
“Wanting to be...” any tritype shows the person who wants to be that does not fully understand the nature of the Enneagram. It’s not a source of pride to admit your tritype, but a public confession of the ways you are “screwed up.” It’s a facing of a version of yourself that you would rather not think about, because it exposes all your raw, gaping wounds and “issues” to the world.
Glamorizing any tritype is a mistake, because they all suck. It doesn’t mean there aren’t good things about them too, but each number’s coping mechanism is a lie they tell themselves that keeps them trapped inside a box and forces them into self-harming behaviors.
If you are a specific tritype, and are willing to look at what that really says about you and how it has hurt you in the past, then you know the pain of being one. People who glamorize certain types either are not that type or have not yet discovered their self-sabotage.
I mean, what is so glamorous about...
1: having such a moral stick up your butt, you become intolerable?
2: giving people attention because you want it yourself (manipulation)?
3: being so desperate for attention and approval, you live a fake life?
4: living a never-ending cycle of envy toward others that brings out a hateful disdain in your interactions with them, thus separating you from them?
5: being so cripplingly afraid of the world and your own possible incompetence in it, you never put yourself out there?
6: being so insecure about your own mental process, you have to let outside sources think for you?
7: being so afraid of pain, you become shallow and irresponsible?
8: being so determined not to get taken advantage of, you trample all over your relationships and often destroy them?
9: being a doormat for people to use and abuse?
Yeah. Not so glamorous now, are they? ;)