Published on 12, July, 2020
Has anyone here done the MBTI personality test? The link is here:
https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
I am INFP-T and the description fits me perfectly. I think there is some truth to it, the personality types do reveal a lot of character traits of a person. I'm usually quite good at guessing friends' MBTI types.
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.
We should have t-shirts with our type on, then we can recognise each other
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.
You read some really contradictory stuff if you search for these personality types online - like I think the website that you have shared suggests I'm a poor decision maker, whereas others are suggesting I would be brilliant at problem solving - I think I'm somewhere inbetween. I have also read on one thing that I see the bigger picture - I doubt that - I get hung up on small details. One site says I am dying alone - probably true LOL - it was very insulting with the other things it said, but also funny at the same time - I can't share because of the bad language on it!
I got INTJ-T.
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 !"
INFJs are awesome. They're kind, intelligent, chill and fun, I find them super easy to get on with.
Yes. It's been studied and it's called the 'Barnum effect' That's exactly what these personality quizzes and astrology both do.
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!
I never meet anybody so I don't know any other INFJs! lol.
" This could apply here: 'no, there aren't more neuro divergent people now days. There are just more people who feel able to freely be themselves without having to hide and pretend to be something they are not.' "
Yeah, that seems a pretty convincing argument to me.
This is interesting because I saw someone saying something which could apply to neuro divergent people like us.
They wrote 'no, there aren't more LGBT people now days. There are just more people who feel able to freely be themselves without having to hide and pretend to be something they are not.'
This could apply here: 'no, there aren't more neuro divergent people now days. There are just more people who feel able to freely be themselves without having to hide and pretend to be something they are not.'
I think humans are more different to each other than people think. In fact I saw another article about this years ago by some DNA researchers. Humans aren't all the same, we are different. No shlt Sherlock.
That's good to hear
Wishing him well, and well, wishing us all well really