MBTI personality test

I got the "architect INTJ-T" its describes me really well.

I think the overall description of that type of personality is quite an autistic one not sure about the others but mine described me very accurately. Apparently it's one of the rarest ones? How rare are your ones, anyone who took the test?

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I come out as INFP.

INFP seem to make up around 4-6% of people who take the test. More females seem to get the INFP typing than males. I'm born male, and I'm a bit non-binary. It seems like INFP males make up about 1-1.5% of the population.

I gather 'intuitive' results are, in general, rarer than 'sensing/observing' types.

In the various people I've known who have gone through the test, it seems that all people with 'intuitive' types have had some degree of neurodivergency about them, which has interested me to note.

I come out as INFP.

INFP seem to make up around 4-6% of people who take the test. More females seem to get the INFP typing than males. I'm born male, and I'm a bit non-binary. It seems like INFP males make up about 1-1.5% of the population.

I gather 'intuitive' results are, in general, rarer than 'sensing/observing' types.

In the various people I've known who have gone through the test, it seems that all people with 'intuitive' types have had some degree of neurodivergency about them, which has interested me to note.

" 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

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.

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.

Oh wow, that is quite different. That's interesting to see a big difference - as you were expecting as well.

I got my mum do take the test she got "Consul ESFJ-A" and it's MASSIVELY different and opposite to mine.

They take up about 12% of the population whereas mine Is around 2%

Her results are: 91% extroverted - 9% introverted, 95% observant - 5% intuitive, 75% feeling - 25% thinking, 54% judging - 46% prospecting, 61% assertive - 39% turbulent.

Her role is "Sentinel"

The type is "Assertive Consul"

If that were the case, that would kind of indicate that neuro-divergent people are much more common than is usually reported.

It's something like 27% of people as being intuitive types.

I could personally believe that as much as 27% of people have some degree of neuro-divergency about them.

calmerchameleon said:

In the various people I've known who have gone through the test, it seems that all people with 'intuitive' types have had some degree of neurodivergency about them, which has interested me to note.

Yep agreed! The only sensing/observing types I met in my life have been neurotypical. 

"It seems to me that ND's are more similar to each other than NT's are to each other if you know what I mean?"

Possibly.

My own view (or guess) is that different NTs are about as similar to each other as different NDs are. But then you could well be right here.

Definitely it will be, I'm fine with it I'm sure she will be too. It won't be until later she has some business meeting.

I would think there would be a lot of differences between NT and ND people but then similarities between ND's, but I there would more variety between lots of different NT's.

It seems to me that ND's are more similar to each other than NT's are to eachother if you know what I mean?

That'd be really interesting. If you find out and she/you don't mind sharing, it'd be cool to hear how similar or different your respective results are

Yeah I like that, I'm gonna get my mum to do it she's NT and very very extroverted and different than me in many ways, I think she'll be the complete opposite of mine what ever that may be.