Ah yes, I feel the same way. I prefer role-playing to self-inserting. A game where I am playing myself would not go well. I'll play almost any character race at least once aside from female humans and male qunari - yuck!
When I say that it's easy for me to do "self-inserts," I meant that I'm able to role-play by imagining what I would do if I were that person in that particular situation/life/role. With all the personality talk going on, I always always always come up ISTJ when I take those test things. When I play games like this (DA, ME, Skyrim, TOR, etc), I can usually role-play a gamut of characters with different personality types because I play through in my head what I think it would be like if I were that person with that different personality type (party-girl rogue assassin who turns her back on responsibility, or noble "white knight" that always puts others first, etc etc). That's why I'm actually able to get attached to every one of my girls, because I try to play them as if they were me, but in another life, with completely different personality types since I use it as a chance to be someone I could never be irl. Some are similar to my actual irl personality, while others are completely different (I would hope so when I play a crazed face-ripping-off-getting-turned-on-with-Vilkas-werewolf girl in Skyrim). Does that make sense or does it make me sound crazy? 
I will say my b/f got a good chuckle when I asked him about it. He's a table-top gamer and I was like "How do you role-play dear? Do you do self-inserts?" He looked at me and nearly spit out his drink...ugh...men and their pervy minds. 
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). Apparently the recommendation was based solely on my math skills and spatial sense.
