Published on 12, July, 2020
Is anyone here into personality typing? I'm a bit of a personality nerd... I've found it fascinating for a while, and it's helped me understand myself better - and also (especially with MBTI) find "my people". I'm curious to know what other autistic folks here 'type' as?
PS. If you only know your results for one of the personality tests, feel free to share just that one :)
I did the MBTI a few times over the last decade to actually test a theory. My results were different 10 years apart, the maker claims your personality types don't really change from your first result, but that's bull plop because that would mean my default personality is someone experiencing domestic abuse. So frankly I find MBTI/horoscopes/houses/bloodtypes/etc offensive.I'll never share my "star sign" or anything else like that, I'm not gonna do work to give a short hand to people too lazy to get to know me as an individual and think I can be summarised in any way. It's just another means of creating arbitrary discrimination anyone who says stuff like "oh no, _____ is a libra/capricorn/scorpio/etc we wouldn't get along!" is a horrible person.
Couldn't the same be said for ASD/ADHD/other neurodivergent labels? I know many people for whom MBTI has been beneficial; IMHO, as with all labels/categorisation, we have to be careful how we use them, but they can be helpful and empowering when used in the right way. Of course, we're all too complicated to be completely defined by any sort of label/diagnosis.