Published on 12, July, 2020
Handi-andis raised this on another thread and I thought it might be interesting to see if we all have radically different personality types, or very similar ones. You can take the test at 16personalities.com, it's a free online test and will tell you at the end what your personality type is, and give you some descriptions of how people similar to you think and behave. You don't have to pay for the Premium version. I did the test before I discovered I had autism, and when I did some training on autism discovered that my personality type and the description of how autism affects people to be very similar. My wife also found it really useful (for herself and for me). I find my personality type is very descriptive of me.
As well as finding out what you're good at, you find out what types of thing you struggle with, so that you can understand yourself better. It helped me see what my brain was good at processing, and what my brain isn't good at processing, so I can make sure I excel with my strengths and then get other people to do the things I struggle with
Post your type here if you'd like to take part.
I got INTJ - The Architect. I'd be interested in finding out yours!
Wow, an Extravert! Introverts are the minority among typical people, and extraverts I'm pretty sure are the minority among autistic people. (Yes, that's an 'a' in extravert in the context of Myers-Briggs Type Indicators.)
I had the MBTI administered by someone trained, and 'am' definitely INTP, or as I'd put it iNtP. I'm not that introverted, but my openness and spontaneity (or low 'conscientiousness') are quite marked.
One INTP answers the claim that autism is just INTP or INTJ to an extreme:http://oddlydevelopedtypes.com/content/intps-and-aspergers-syndrome-0I'd recommend that site for the cartoons and stories, and it has well-researched guides to INTP and INTJ personality types.
Here are some other variations of the test, avoiding copyright infringement of MBTI in various ways:
I believe the -A or -T suffix stands for 'Assertive' or 'Turbulent' and is the way 16Personalities tries to express the fifth dimension of the 'Big 5' personality test which is called 'neuroticism-stability'. The main MBTI doesn't include this, I think wisely, because it is rather judgemental and I think more dependent on social circumstances than the other personality characteristics.
One good thing about MBTI is that none of the 16 types is 'better' than any other, your personality is seen as your natural choice and preference, there's a natural recognition of diversity and it has rules that means it should never be abused to discriminate in terms of employment and so on.
Oh how interesting! I had my MBTI done by a trained assessor too - I am also INTP, which he said was quite unusual. Thanks so much for sharing this information.