MBTI personality test

Character traits are very hard to fit into one small classification. They are too branching, depend on circumstances, concern different spheres (attitude to oneself, other people, things, etc.). So Ernst Kretschmer decided to do just a generalized description of the three character types, which he based not only on psychology, but also on... physiology. This cannot be overlooked, so psychological age and peculiarities of development of thinking should be taken into account only with regard to physical skill. This is what scientists say. And the closest thing to a professional test can be taken here fridaytrivia.com/.../ in game form. Such tests are suitable for children who can associate themselves with characters.

Personality types were created with the mentality that everyone is neurotypical. So it's assumed that being exhausted by social interaction must be related to introversion.

But an autistic person can crave lots of social interaction (ie. Be extroverted) but still become exhausted, particularly if they are masking for the benefit of NTs.

That's just one example. 

I usually get INFP but I once got ENFP, which came during a period in which I was quite hypomanic.

Each time though I'm pretty much in the ambivert territory of being not far from the middle line between introvert and extrovert.

I need people for energy but I can get overwhelmed and drained by too much people at times, and especially too much conversation. I love clubs and sometimes love to dance in and around people to get the dancefloor really pumped up.

I seem to overlap a fair bit with autism and ADHD, and I'd probably judge myself as being more ADHD-leaning than the autism/Aspie side.

"And do autistic people have different standards for personality types than non-autistic people?"

Could you say a bit more about what you mean here? It sounds a fascinating question, I'm just not sure exactly what's being asked.

I've been consistently ISFJ-T (defender) for years but I did it just now and I got INFJ-T (advocate) ^_^

My autistic friend got E for extrovert and I didn't realise at the time that autistic people could be extroverts (they seemed "quiet" in person!). Just goes to show, no one truly knows you except yourself. And do autistic people have different standards for personality types than non-autistic people? Or do some extroverted autistics avoid talking to prevent social mishaps? Very interesting....

I got "NaN - Does not compute !"

Looks like I am Virtuoso (ISTP-T) and I have a Austim Level1 diagnosis and not surprisingly I am an Engineer :)

I got Virtuoso ISTP-A/ISTP-T

Three of my really good friends are INFJs, I love them all to pieces! I tend to get on well with INFJs.

I got INFJ-T. It fits me really well. I heard it is a rare personality type, which explains why I feel so lonely lol 

i’m an istp!

That's good to hear

Wishing him well, and well, wishing us all well really

Aw that's good, I'm happy for them. I guess it depends on upbringing and falling into the right career for you.

My cousin has a lot of traits of Asperger's but he's doing fine in life too. My aunt is a great mother to him, she never pressured him to be anything other than himself. He's super introverted and she's cool with that. He's never had a girlfriend because he's scared of girls (bless him) but I trust that he will meet someone eventually - luckily my aunt doesn't pressure him to get married or anything like that.

Yeah I can see that I think sometimes we can have an unrealistic view of reality sometimes that just wouldn't work or be practical I think that can come from some kind of egocentrism because we have hard time relating to people and understanding peoples perspective especially an NT's perspective so we just kind of think of stuff/things that may well be good for us (as an individual). 

I agree that NT's bring us back to reality my mum certainly has to sometimes I find it interesting and sometimes funny how there's certain things that we would just never think about but NT's often think about it.

Yeah. On a kind of positive side, I have a lot of friends who I recognise as having traits but they're doing fine in life. Good, solid careers, starting families or happy in relationships and there's no need for them to get diagnosed as things stand for them.

Which on one hand is good for them. On another hand, some of us may think, I wonder if it would help if, for statistics sake, some of the neurodiveristy of these people were recognised too.

It's an interesting one.

That sounds likely - lots of people go undiagnosed.

INTJ. The first time I took this was about 26 years ago. I’d take it at random to see if I’d changed but no. The information about how others work and how it plays into their strengths / weaknesses was really helpful to stop being so judge-y when younger LOL

But it was incredibly useful for noticing friendships I could invest in or identifying people I might have a more difficult time understanding and to not exhaust myself trying to do so. Also to focus on what I might be better suited for in a career.

Next level kit: (for a more exhaustive approach) Jungian Archetypes. 

I also think a lot of the 'amazing' stuff that ND people think up quite often ends up causing a huge amount of grief. And I don't think the harm element tends be the fault of NT people.

We as NDs come up with some amazing things, but amazing things can be used for amazing harm too. NDs can often be idealistic and sadly dystopias are made from idealistic ideas.

So, we are great and have great ideas, but we sometimes need the NTs to keep some of us in check from time to time, is how I feel.

NTs are very useful for kind of 'levelling out the ocean' in ways. If things get bad, and bad enough for NTs to start realising and speaking out, then they become a real force to be reckoned with, and a very useful force for positive change.

That's my thoughts/observations at least

100% agree it would grind to a halt, I was just thinking about to the culturally creative things that have happened and do happen all the time think about the marvel comics and movies for example. Like when you really think about, who in there "right mind" would ever think about those kind of things. Super heros with extraordinary gifts and powers, if you think of an NT person you know (who is relatively 'average') I doubt you would think of them as the person to come up with those kind of ideas, but the average ND person, well that's something different I think you could quite easily imagine that kind of person coming up with something that creative.

Then if you wanted to implement those ideas into a movie for example you wouldn't be able to do that without NT people with their ability to communicate between each other with out getting burnt out for a small example, to do all of the work that goes into organising people to make sure they do their jobs, as an autistic I can tell you that I would never ever be able to make sure that people do their jobs I just don't have that ability to communicate with people I'm sure I could learn but it would be very very hard and take a long time where as NT people just naturally gain that ability through osmosis as they grow up.

Yes. I think society would fairly quickly grind to a halt if the world was either 100% NT or 100% ND.

With these kind of things, I tend to view it like bricks and mortar. You kind of need them both working together to have a good wall or building.

The intuitive part comes up with the analysis and the ideas and ways of working. Then the sensing types pull people together and 'get the jobs moving' -especially when jobs require a team of people.

Yeah really different and my percentage are more less the same just flipped. It makes me think more about the difference between the autistic brain and then NT brain but how in their respective categories they mostly similar to each other and based off of the descriptions of the types to me it seems clear, when you think about the people in the world that do incredible things that change the world, people like Elon musk, Steve jobs, Nikola Tesla, Bill Gates. (Who even though not officially are/were clearly on the spectrum). I shows me that autistic people often are just that, people who change the world. Because of how we are neurologically built different and are on average more creative than NT's we just have an ability to create amazing things like companies for example but they need NT's to work in them because what we lack in the NT population make up for it and vice versa.