I love critique, as a general thing -- well, as much as anyone actually loves it, ha -- but I am way better at accepting critique about the mechanical part of a story rather than the emotion-level part of a story, if that makes any sense? I have been doing beta reading, workshopping, and other kinds of critiquing of style and form, and having it done to me, for long enough now that I can divorce myself almost completely from feeling emotionally engaged when talking about the mechanical aspects of a story -- the plot, sentence-level word choice, etc. I might have a little bit of an initial tender reaction when I first get beta notes, but I can overcome it pretty easily and move on to taking the useful parts, discarding the not-useful parts, and getting the work done!

But I still struggle with the emotion-level critique, and unfortunately critique in fandom often happens on that level, and it tends to hit me hard. This frustrates me, because I want to be a person who is able to take negative comments on board and take what's useful and let the rest slide off me -- because emotional critique is useful too (and when I say emotional critique, I mean something like "I really hate this character!" or "The ending was awful, I think the story should have ended X/Y instead!", as opposed to the emotionally-neutral "You misspelled a word in the second chapter" or "Actually it's a 5-hour drive from DC to New York, not a 4-hour drive" or "Hey, that plotline you started in chapter 5 just kind of disappears; what's up with that?"). Knowing that people aren't responding to the story as I intended is a very useful thing to be aware of, but that's where I tend to be so emotionally compromised myself that I respond to it badly.

And I don't think critique is always good -- there are definitely times when I just want squeeful cheerleading feedback, especially when I'm in the early stages of working on something. I also think it's important to learn how to sort out useful critique (comments that point out weaknesses you weren't aware of, or reinforces things you suspected were true but weren't sure) from unhelpful critique (suggestions that go against the grain of the story you want to tell).

So basically: for me, critique is usually good, but my own reactions to it aren't always good, and I could do better at that. :P