Myers-Briggs personalities and autism

I recently came across the Myers-Briggs tests you can do to learn about your personality type and things you may or may not find easy in life. Mine is INTJ-T and I was really taken aback at how accurate the results described the way I think and the way I approach life. I guess I’m just really curious about if there’s any correlation between certain personality types and autism because I’ve seen it mentioned a few times on here and just interested to hear if that’s the case Slight smile

maybe there are certain personality types that are more common within our community? Or maybe not! Slight smile

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  • There was a thread not too long ago on this. Along with Twitter - it does seem many of us have very similar M-B types. Researching further into Jung's Archetypes is quite good. I'm an INTJ.

    *I should add that this was useful in my late 20's and for many years before I learned about the Spectrum / ND thinking. I just assumed it was personality... 

  • Yes, I always thought it was just personality too.  And so I often ended up in the self help aisle, looking for books on how to overcome anxiety or, later on, the power of introversion or being a "highly sensitive person".  I always felt as though i was getting there but never quite arriving.  But of course, and especially in the light of my family background, it was always unidentified autism and the issues spinning out from a total lack of support and understanding.   

  • I really think there are technological advances and capitalistic advances which are now marginalising autistic individuals. Let's suppose, as Jung did, that these particular character traits were simply a different personality. When reading further into MBTI, one finds out that the iNTJ can seem aloof but highly scientific, this might make their opinion respectable and their 'isms' tolerable. They might have a voice in a situation where everyone is a bit different and perhaps they're keen to something I might not suspect.

    But to make that person now Disabled within society simply because it favours social interactions over scientifiic reasoning and would even hold a child back in school for not being an extrovert, then we have massive problems. That child wouldn't have an issue if the school wasn't saving money with flourescents or fond of chaoitc aesthetic (Nickelodean's motto, for instance: Chaos is Creativity, such rubbish), or going to theatres where the sound is deafening, or not allowed kinetic learning or out door play. There's a myriad of problems which are socially favoured and shaping and us/them society in relation to NT/ND individuals starting with language. I will personally favour older translations of philosophers in favour of new due to the precisicon with language once thought to be appropriate. 

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  • I really think there are technological advances and capitalistic advances which are now marginalising autistic individuals. Let's suppose, as Jung did, that these particular character traits were simply a different personality. When reading further into MBTI, one finds out that the iNTJ can seem aloof but highly scientific, this might make their opinion respectable and their 'isms' tolerable. They might have a voice in a situation where everyone is a bit different and perhaps they're keen to something I might not suspect.

    But to make that person now Disabled within society simply because it favours social interactions over scientifiic reasoning and would even hold a child back in school for not being an extrovert, then we have massive problems. That child wouldn't have an issue if the school wasn't saving money with flourescents or fond of chaoitc aesthetic (Nickelodean's motto, for instance: Chaos is Creativity, such rubbish), or going to theatres where the sound is deafening, or not allowed kinetic learning or out door play. There's a myriad of problems which are socially favoured and shaping and us/them society in relation to NT/ND individuals starting with language. I will personally favour older translations of philosophers in favour of new due to the precisicon with language once thought to be appropriate. 

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