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!
I like this it looks like I'm in the majority for a change!
INFJ, Thank God for discovering the autistic spectrum, I was starting to think I was some sort of mutant! Now I know I'm different but so are others.
Doh, I meant if it, indeed, really does for NT people . . .
I think gender and autism are really interesting . - I've seen research saying that AS women have 'male' minds and other research saying that AS men have 'female' minds :D Anecdotally, I'd say there's probably a higher incidence of diverse sexual orientation in AS circles and it's borne out by research https://autismawarenesscentre.com/autism-transgender-gender-dysphoria/ The Cambridge study says that gender difference is 'flattened' in AS people - ie gender differences in AS people don't come from their brain chemistry (if, indeed, it really does for AS people).
My own feeling is that gender acquisition is 90% social and therefore AS peeps are unlikely to produce a hi-fidelity version - but then again I was reading about a female 'phenotype' of AS recently and it was like someone had been reading my mail. I'm INTP logician which is probably the most challenging for women as it's kind of 180 degrees to social expectations of NT women and I get really a lot of crap about it. Gender is obviously acting on us and probably leading to differences in experience of AS for women - higher intolerance from the wider population and stronger pressure to conform socially. But I'm pretty sure that differences between AS men and women are socially induced and not due to brain chemistry. So I'd expect that AS peeps INxx spectrum would not be much influenced by gender?
.... are you looking at breaking this down by gender as well??
bit flash ...
still “The Advocate” (INFJ-T)
byt also part-time awesome :) ... like the rest of us!!
:-D
Lol, allegedly I am "ENFP - The Campaigner", "Role: Diplomat, Strategy: Social Engagement".
I think this says more about the way I have adapted after 57 years of living amongst 'Humans' though & anyone that would suggest I would do well as a diplomat is just plain crazy!
Edit : I have taken this test before a few years ago though & pretty sure that last time the questions were a bit different. Although I can't remember what my result was last time, I'm pretty sure it wasn't ENFP.
Took it yonks ago, INTP: logician.
Just did another one on which I got INTP.
Too much wavering on questions over whether it important to be right, when to me that can be such a relative question. Who should be allowed to have the monopoly on Truth? When it comes to certain issues, thinking about it since I last did a test, there is no way I would spare the diner feelings of another if Ithought their views were so much hoooey - and don't. That might not apply in spheres regarding individual tastes if preferences though.
I have David Kiersey's book "Please Understand me II". He groups the 16 types into four categories based on original descriptions by Plato in "The Republic":
* SPs - Artisans: Tend to become masters in the making of solid, practical things.
* SJs - Guardians: They keep watch over the activities as well as the attitudes of the people in their circle. Rely on common sense and hold morally correct beliefs, and alert to both the needs and perils of others.
* NFs - Idealists: Serve a philosophic function in society, to divine moral principles and the full meaning of life.
* NTs - The Rationals: Serve the function of studying nature and figuring out ways to understand/harness/tame it.
If you're interested in this sort of thing you might find it interesting. He has his own type sorting questionnaire - "The Kiersey Personality Sorter" which is given in the book with the scoring key.
I got this
Me too!
INTP-T Logician. Although I'm only 57% P, 43% J so quite close to either there. That's what I usually come out as on most Myers Briggs tests.
Intj-t Architect
Great descriptions
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.
Here's the results so far.
Interestingly, the INxx's account for almost 80% of the replies - only 5 out of the 24 total were not in this type family.
I'd linked to two forums above in the words 'seem' and 'agree'. I'm just using search engines and discarding some of the poorer or duplicate results...
For Star Trek (plus the Muppets and others), see here for a chart: https://www.adventureassoc.com/myers-briggs-personality-type-charts-of-fictional-characters/#startreck
... and here for amateur speculation: https://www.personalitycafe.com/guess-type/119410-star-trek-characters.html Interestingly "Spock: INTJ (the same as most Vulcans, I would think)" seems plausible, but no way is Worf 'INTP'! Security types tend to be SJ types, as explained in Trekker language here: http://www.wischik.com/damon/Texts/myersbriggstrek.html
Sometimes people don't understand type well, or don't know the characters well. Finally, one for Whovians:
So, us autistic INTPs have much in common with Yoda: wise, reserved and can't get our words in the right order.
Is there a link, and/or is there also one for Trekkers like myself? (No rush... there are other troubles on this Forum way more important.) ...Thanks, though! :-)