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Am I an INTP, or INFJ? Or something else?

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Hi everybody, so Im an 18 year old girl, wondering about her MBTI type since shes 14.
Since I grew out of depression, it became easier for me to analyze, how and who I am, so I hope this will have a right outcome.

Im a very sensitive, feely person, but only to those who really know me, and who I feel I can open up to. This includes like 5 people or less. Im very hard to get to know, but once you do and once I start letting you in, you will be able to discover what lies behind the surface. Im pretty drawn to emotional depth and connections between people, but too often Im scared away before I can reach a level of depth and comfort.
I have the deepest affection to know what lies beneath the surface, the surface that everyone sees. I want to see how things and people work in their innerest core.

Im interested in people, but more in how they are ticking, what moves them, how they think,.. like I often see people as experiments; Im always making assumtions in my head, behaving a certain way and observing how someone specific reacts to it, if my assumptions and theories are right. If I am not emotionally involved with someone, I can alter my appearance and behavior, to make a certain impression, so i can make people see me how i want them to see me. But if I start liking someone, i just want to be as honest and upright to them as I can be.

I am always observing and analysing, I find myself understanding several things, like underlying motives, which others seem oblivious to. I am only beginning to understand, that not everyone sees this things..
I am holding back most of these things, the most people are never really aware of how much I analyse, how much I see and how much I understand. But I do am clumsy, dumb and naive sometimes, because I assume everyone has the same heart as me, I would never really maniipulate someone I care for, although I could. I would never say something only to hurt someone I care for if its not the truth, I assume everyone else is that way, so Im often really confused if people start doing things like that.

I somehow soak up emotions, I am catching up vibes around me and Im often not fully aware of it. I also think that i am projecting a lot of stuff thats going on inside of me to the outside world, like assuming people are having the same heart as I do.

I have my "outward" personality, there are things, which I let everyone know, making me seem more open on the first glance, than I really am. People seeing me as "so open" can befriend me for years, somedays noticing somehow, that they know nothing about me.
I am mostly keeping my distance, not allowing anyone in because I fear getting hurt so much.
I am patient with the poeple I love, but if you mess and screw it up, I will be able to just like "cut" the connection and move on, without you. Without really missing that person. When Im done, man Im done.

I enjoy the company of others, to a limit. I shut off if it gets too much, then I just space out and need my time to think and analyse, alone and in my head.

Im not sure what to add, hopefully someone can clear things up for me :) If you need extra information, feel free to ask. And Im sorry, english is only a second language I learnt in school :cool:
 

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you seem to think of yourself a lot in terms of the kind of descriptions that are abundant in typology tests and profiles, to the point where i wonder if you're actively trying to adjust your self-perception to correspond with the kind of person typology suggests that one should want to be. an INFJ would hide this better i think.

i'm not sure why INTP is in consideration. i can relate to reading motives and some of the other stuff you bring up, but at age 18? no way. i was aloof and sarcastic. i didn't even care about people's motives and relationships with others as i considered those mundane topics unworthy of my attention. at most i got vibes which told me to avoid people. only later have i begun to analyze and refine those vibes. i may not be a clear-cut INTP but i think my experience in that area can serve as a reference.

you could be INFJ but i'd guess ISFJ or INFP before that. not excluding anything though. why do you suppose INTP rather than INFP as an alternative? some idea about inferior Fe?
 

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you seem to think of yourself a lot in terms of the kind of descriptions that are abundant in typology tests and profiles, to the point where i wonder if you're actively trying to adjust your self-perception to correspond with the kind of person typology suggests that one should want to be. an INFJ would hide this better i think.

i'm not sure why INTP is in consideration. i can relate to reading motives and some of the other stuff you bring up, but at age 18? no way. i was aloof and sarcastic. i didn't even care about people's motives and relationships with others as i considered those mundane topics unworthy of my attention. at most i got vibes which told me to avoid people. only later have i begun to analyze and refine those vibes. i may not be a clear-cut INTP but i think my experience in that area can serve as a reference.

you could be INFJ but i'd guess ISFJ or INFP before that. not excluding anything though. why do you suppose INTP rather than INFP as an alternative? some idea about inferior Fe?
this could be a thing, but (problematically) I just read so much about functions that whenever I notice something about me, I try to store it in one of this little boxes I have for each function/type. If i try to adjust myself to get labeled as this or that type, I probably don't know it. Making this uncounsciousnessly.
But I also just tried to sum up all the (like i see it) essential parts, providing some sort of knowledge when it comes to functions or what else, just to make it easier for you guys to type me.

I think INTP could be a guess, because theres something called hypersensitivity, which even thinkers can have. I am analyzing everything to its core, I want to know how things work and Im questioning the things I hear a lot. I try to understand systems of knowledge, and then analyse its smaller parts to see what it is.

I am pretty sure that I am not a Fi user, I am too concerned with how people see me, I somehow orientate myself, looking how others feel. Its always more important what others feel for me, and I am often unaware of how I feel, until I start to talk my feelings out with someone I trust.
 

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I can relate to pretty much everything you've said with the exception of making predictions about peoples behavior. I wanted a broad picture on the causality behind peoples motives, but I never actually tried to predict behavior. I especially empathize with the hypersensitivity when it comes to the opinions of the others. It was so bad in high school, it completely warped my outward image.

I had a phase where I tried to figure out peoples mbti type, but it came to conflict with their self-tested type and I'm pretty sure it's up to them at that point. So it's up to you, when it comes down to it. I think, that getting a feel for type is just something you learn by pattern matching people you know are of a certain type. Get a feel for all the different ways their MBTI function pattern can unfold, then start making predictions. It, also, will help people refine what the functions are actually doing.

Really, I wasn't able to figure out my type by trying to match descriptors to my type. I just kept getting INTP in every single test, over, and over, and over, and over again.

I really want Dario Nardi and mobile E.G.G scanners to become a thing. It would be nice to have a way to predict how people work by monitoring certain brain patterns. Meh, we use what we have.
 

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this could be a thing, but (problematically) I just read so much about functions that whenever I notice something about me, I try to store it in one of this little boxes I have for each function/type. If i try to adjust myself to get labeled as this or that type, I probably don't know it. Making this uncounsciousnessly.
But I also just tried to sum up all the (like i see it) essential parts, providing some sort of knowledge when it comes to functions or what else, just to make it easier for you guys to type me.

I think INTP could be a guess, because theres something called hypersensitivity, which even thinkers can have. I am analyzing everything to its core, I want to know how things work and Im questioning the things I hear a lot. I try to understand systems of knowledge, and then analyse its smaller parts to see what it is.

I am pretty sure that I am not a Fi user, I am too concerned with how people see me, I somehow orientate myself, looking how others feel. Its always more important what others feel for me, and I am often unaware of how I feel, until I start to talk my feelings out with someone I trust.

okay, just the things that hit me when reading.

you may have a point about Fi vs. Fe. i'm not sure i agree that Fi is more selfish, confident and indifferent to the emotional expectations of others. (Te is though, with low Fi). i think Fi-dom is about really hacking those things. Fe is more about applying them, with less self-consciousness qualms, less of a feeling that "i am someone who worries about satisfying others", more of a natural appreciation of the collective, without as much thought about one's own part in it. group identity primary to individuality or something, that's how i picture Fe. does my point come across with this slipshod writing?

maybe i'm just adding confusion.
 

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I do the same. I analyze and categorize people and enjoy it because it's so systematic and it tends to be correct 96% of the time. But this is mostly because I didn't understand why I got so heavily outcasted and ridiculed by everyone in middleschool so I spent the past 4 years just reading psychology books and logical deduction. I'm glad that i endured what I did in middleschool, it skyrocketed my curiosity and intelligence. It's extremely easy to figure out peoples' motives now by simply analyzing how they move, posture, how they react, what they laugh at, clothes, and many other factors from just 1 minute of looking at a stranger. This became 2nd nature to me now that its heavily developed into my intuition now, everytime I speak to someone I sometimes hear a voice in my head of what the other person is thinking (intuitively) it's almost always right. I used to ask if (insert quote) is what they were thinking, and it is, now I rarely ask to confirm if intuition was right, I just assume with full confidence now.
 

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It is difficult to say from a few paragraphs of text. As you say yourself, to figure out what is beneath the surface. What makes a machine run can take a long time. It would be easier for me if you had a 1000 long posts and perhaps a few hundred PMs.

I'm not sure INTPs soak up emotions? Was that how you intended to express it?

How conseptional are you? Inventive? Idea productions? Can you come up with new or better concepts/ideas when there is a problem? Or even when there isn't a problem?

What gives you the greatest satisfaction? To think about something, or have the job done?
 

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Fi user detected.

Analyzes ideas of value over ideas of objects.
 

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Fi user detected.

Analyzes ideas of value over ideas of objects.
lol noob.
And only noobs can't immediately recognized what type OP is. Whatever your type are, INTP or not, you guys are still noobs.

INFJs are actually the best type at self-awareness. So one people seek for other support to identify themselves, he/she either must be not INFJ, or is an INFJ who seek for caring, trust, attention...

So according to these phrase:
Im a very sensitive, feely person, but only to those who really know me
I want to see how things and people work in their innerest core.
If I am not emotionally involved with someone, I can alter my appearance and behavior, to make a certain impression, so i can make people see me how i want them to see me. But if I start liking someone, i just want to be as honest and upright to them as I can be.
I am holding back most of these things, the most people are never really aware of how much I analyse, how much I see and how much I understand. But I do am clumsy, dumb and naive sometimes, because I assume everyone has the same heart as me, I would never really maniipulate someone I care for, although I could.
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and many more but that's enough to know your type.

So an INFJ seek for deep attention and trust, caring. You can count on me girl although I actually interest on male than female :o. But I've never ever had chance to meet an INFJ in real life so I want take this chance to understand more about INFJ.

She is a clever IFNJ because she expect on INTPs, who are actually very loyal, not like those ENTP jerks. But I remind you girl, not every INTPs are the same. I think you should rely on intuition and uhm...kinda fate or something. Come at me if you want some weird experience, you can count on me.
 

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you seem to think of yourself a lot in terms of the kind of descriptions that are abundant in typology tests and profiles, to the point where i wonder if you're actively trying to adjust your self-perception to correspond with the kind of person typology suggests that one should want to be. an INFJ would hide this better i think.
Well said. But she is INFJ. In other words this is natural way of INFJs introduce themselves

You are right about INFJ will tend to hide themselves. But the OP is 18 yrs old, it's reasonable enough that she want to be open, or "less experience". And we should encourage people should trust each other like how she start. An experience INFJ may be very skeptical and keep the distance at the first glance, but it also mean he/she is old. That's what I used to hate myself. The more dependent on logic for an INTP, the more he/she getting old. I love people understand themselves and let them being young like kids. That's real mature.
 

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lol noob.
And only noobs can't immediately recognized what type OP is. Whatever your type are, INTP or not, you guys are still noobs.

INFJs are actually the best type at self-awareness.

i am the best example of not understanding myself

the abstractions of jungian typology elude me :kodama1:
 

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I can relate to pretty much everything you've said with the exception of making predictions about peoples behavior. I wanted a broad picture on the causality behind peoples motives, but I never actually tried to predict behavior. I especially empathize with the hypersensitivity when it comes to the opinions of the others. It was so bad in high school, it completely warped my outward image.

I had a phase where I tried to figure out peoples mbti type, but it came to conflict with their self-tested type and I'm pretty sure it's up to them at that point. So it's up to you, when it comes down to it. I think, that getting a feel for type is just something you learn by pattern matching people you know are of a certain type. Get a feel for all the different ways their MBTI function pattern can unfold, then start making predictions. It, also, will help people refine what the functions are actually doing.

Really, I wasn't able to figure out my type by trying to match descriptors to my type. I just kept getting INTP in every single test, over, and over, and over, and over again.

I really want Dario Nardi and mobile E.G.G scanners to become a thing. It would be nice to have a way to predict how people work by monitoring certain brain patterns. Meh, we use what we have.
With this "predicting" I mean, it's more like experimenting. Im coming up with theories around peoples behaviour, like; this person behaves this and that way, I think it could be that.. how can I act around that person, to get a reaction that proves or disproves my theory and so on (often my theories are true) Or; this person behaves that kind of way, I bet if I do this, that would happen, let's try this out.
 

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okay, just the things that hit me when reading.

you may have a point about Fi vs. Fe. i'm not sure i agree that Fi is more selfish, confident and indifferent to the emotional expectations of others. (Te is though, with low Fi). i think Fi-dom is about really hacking those things. Fe is more about applying them, with less self-consciousness qualms, less of a feeling that "i am someone who worries about satisfying others", more of a natural appreciation of the collective, without as much thought about one's own part in it. group identity primary to individuality or something, that's how i picture Fe. does my point come across with this slipshod writing?

maybe i'm just adding confusion.
I've read a lot about Fi and Fe, I can't exactly explain it now, but Im pretty pretty sure that I am not a Fi user.
 

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It is difficult to say from a few paragraphs of text. As you say yourself, to figure out what is beneath the surface. What makes a machine run can take a long time. It would be easier for me if you had a 1000 long posts and perhaps a few hundred PMs.

I'm not sure INTPs soak up emotions? Was that how you intended to express it?

How conseptional are you? Inventive? Idea productions? Can you come up with new or better concepts/ideas when there is a problem? Or even when there isn't a problem?

What gives you the greatest satisfaction? To think about something, or have the job done?
I feel you, yes.

Im just very empathetic, but this can shut off quite easily. Im empathetic with like 5 people, then I really feel what they are feeling like what theyre feeling would be my feelings. And I meant, I soak up vibes. And I think that I unconsciousnessly take up on others emotions and thinking that theyre my own, thats a bit complicated. Im often feeling guilty for things I havent even done or some things a like.

Im not sure about that, because Im somewhat not really practical at all. I like mind puzzles and quizes and maths problems, I often find a total weird way of solving them, but I solve things like this my own way. Somehow connecting every part in my mind - from different fields of knowledge - to come up wirh a solution. I think my approach to problems is different than what I observe in most other peoples problem solving skills. More connected.

I like thinking, I dont like doing something. Like in our chemistry classes, we do 2 hours of experimenting, to "find out" about theories, that seemed logical to me in the first place. I hate that stupid experimenting, when the problem could be solved in 700% less of time.
 

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lol noob.
And only noobs can't immediately recognized what type OP is. Whatever your type are, INTP or not, you guys are still noobs.
Can you try to be less obnoxious?

If you want to make a counter argument don't build it on ad hominem, or other persuasive devices.

It's not the first time I've seen you make a case that only your version is correct and continue to point that something else is "bullshit".

This is not the place where you have to be the loudest/silence others to be heard.
 

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Can you try to be less obnoxious?

If you want to make a counter argument don't build it on ad hominem, or other persuasive devices.

It's not the first time I've seen you make a case that only your version is correct and continue to point that something else is "bullshit".

This is not the place where you have to be the loudest/silence others to be heard.
How the fuck it is ad hominem? Are you retard or what? I didn't even have any argument with him. Your statement "less obnoxious" even doesn't relate to the bold. I just can't tolerance "something should supposed to be like this, but it is like that". I didn't say he is a noob for every sides, he was just noob at MBTI typing people. And this is just basic stuff, god damn it, no offend here.

He even didn't complain that I was impolite to him, why do you have to do it for him?

Edit: Well I wasn't controlling my emotion. Spirit didn't fully read the OP post and I hate negligent actions like that so I was angry. I didn't have any mean to starting a unnecessary flame war here. Let give the thread back to the OP.
 

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Okay as far as self awareness goes, infjs are not particularly interested in the philosophy of it even though they are celebrated for that exact thing. It's more subconscious on their part (Ni, I think) so an Infj is more likely to have gone on 'gut feeling'(as they'd describe it) rather than having pondered over it.

I think INTPs are often mistyped because their T/F dichotomy usually overlaps since personality tests seem bent on 'thinkers are cold' which isn't necessarily true. INTPs choose to be logical but since Fi is a shadow function. It is messy and intense and it is when this function plays up that we start doubting our (T)

So if your thought process is conscious and decisive in its direction then you're probably INTP
 

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My mind was like "you fucking noob" but then it's ok. It's your right.
 

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I'm a bit puzzled. You strike me as INFP but I don't exactly sense Fi. The thing with Fi is that they have this haunting sense of injustice that informs their ideals. I don't see that kind of angst underlying your descriptions of yourself.

Do you care more about understanding people or maintaining harmony with the people around you?
 

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I'm a bit puzzled. You strike me as INFP but I don't exactly sense Fi. The thing with Fi is that they have this haunting sense of injustice that informs their ideals. I don't see that kind of angst underlying your descriptions of yourself.

Do you care more about understanding people or maintaining harmony with the people around you?
Reading the descriptions and going by stereotypes, I would be the most stereotypical INFP ever, I know that. But as I said, I dont use Fi thats pretty certain.

Both is somehow important to me, but if I had to choose, I would say maintaining harmony.
I think my need of understanding people is that I just want to analyze them and its often some kind of: "if I analyze this person enough, then I can say if I can trust them or not, if they will be dangerous to me or not" I have some strong kund of gut feeling if I can trust someone or not, but I often need to ensure this feeling by analyzing. This kind of gut feeling is getting stronger now, since Im overcoming my depression.
 

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in my view you are a dominant feeling type, this is because you seem to have almost total control over emotions. This confirms my ex was probably an ENFJ. I can't tell in your case if Fe or Fi really. I would go with Fe because you say when you are done with a person you are done. That's similar to Te, people are objects that serve you in some way, when they stop behaving like they should you simply cut the chord. Imo Fi isn't like that. but i could be wrong and be a Fe user in fact.
 

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in my view you are a dominant feeling type, this is because you seem to have almost total control over emotions. This confirms my ex was probably an ENFJ. I can't tell in your case if Fe or Fi really. I would go with Fe because you say when you are done with a person you are done. That's similar to Te, people are objects that serve you in some way, when they stop behaving like they should you simply cut the chord. Imo Fi isn't like that. but i could be wrong and be a Fe user in fact.
I think this "cutting the cord" is more like a reaction to protect myself. Since Im so sensitive, Im pretty easy hurt also
 

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Hello, and welcome.

I can't say for sure what type you are, but I hope someday you'll find the answer. I've observed in others, and especially myself, an enthusiastic drive to find a complete and irrevocable answer of not only their own type, but being absolutely proficient in typing others.

I encourage you to dive in the depths of all resources found in books, and the net, looking for the final, and complete picture of Jung's (and others) depiction of cognition functions and the psyche. Always wondering if you can unarguably say,

"That is exactly what Fe is, and without a doubt, I know I'm not Fi"

I'm not sure how long it will take you, but I'm sure eventually, you'll see that the true answer is in a place you'd never think.....

And the answer was nothing that you would have ever expected.
 

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That was a hasty assessment on my part. But yeah the person was being a dick and they knew it.

Just have the balls and own it.

I should have asked a couple clarifier questions first.

Op, just live life as whatever type you think you are. If you live according to your preferences, job and life decisions will be less stressful.
 
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You can use other functions and still be classified as one type or another. For instance, I am very intuitive. I have such a strong preference for intuition I use Ni more than Ne even though I'm classified INTP. So, on normal personality tests I always line up INTP. However, if I take a cognitive functions test I will often come up INTJ because of the strong preference for intuition. Long story short, maybe play around with some cognitive functions tests. I guess what I'm saying you may favor functions that aren't specified in a certain type. It's probably how people get INTX classifications and what not.

Here's a function test or maybe you could find others:
http://similarminds.com/classic_jung.html
 

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You can use other functions and still be classified as one type or another. For instance, I am very intuitive. I have such a strong preference for intuition I use Ni more than Ne even though I'm classified INTP. So, on normal personality tests I always line up INTP. However, if I take a cognitive functions test I will often come up INTJ because of the strong preference for intuition. Long story short, maybe play around with some cognitive functions tests. I guess what I'm saying you may favor functions that aren't specified in a certain type. It's probably how people get INTX classifications and what not.

Here's a function test or maybe you could find others:
http://similarminds.com/classic_jung.html
I did several functions tests, I scored high on Ti, Ni, Fe, Ne, Si and Se and Te was very low
 

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People who did the test are not, but who totally trust in MBTI tests are retards, doesn't matter whether the test focusing on cognitive functions or general questions.

Why? Because most MBTI tests are unreliable. They thought taking a test is an objective method to understand themselves? That's simply extremely fucking stupid. You can't never ever judge something objectively, it was already subjective from your point of view. In this case, your decision to answer those questions is combination of below factors:

- The meaning of the questions themselves
- Your understanding to the question. Two people may have two different understanding to a same question. That's why the OP have high score both on Ti and Ni. Because both these cognitive functions shared the same characteristics that may not easy to distinguish by the expressing of human language. Like A ∩ B.
- Your intent to choose the answer. Basically you intend to lie other about your test results.

You can easily unconsciously choose the answer that not true about yourself, but you believe it true because it matched your desired type and the questions were very familiar to other test that you did in the past.

I agree that psychology QA tests are something trying to measure the human inner and behaviors. They are not totally useless, they actually are decent for general psychology fields, act like a basic filter. But they are not suitable for MBTI and Jung's theory. These are something that deep and specific...

So just try to understand the cognitive functions by the way you are, something you own and experience yourself, not borrow, rent or copy from others. And how the result is accurate depend on how you put effort and care about your objects. How you care about yourself is not simply how you feed, sleep, taking bath... but something like split you into another part of you and try to watch yourself like an actual another person. Human is something complex, even an ESFP can act like an INTJ or INFJ.

For somebody claim that I might hastily got the conclusion without reconsideration, that I denied other's opinion and only accept my view; I actually secretly put a "test" for the OP. It doesn't matter whether if the OP realized the "test" or not, and it's may unnecessary to be revealed. And after knowing her reaction, I can confirmed again that the OP is an INFJ. Case closed here, no more running around and wasting time.

C'mon men, INFJs don't need other to tell who they are. Actually this is just an interesting way to introduce, unlike rigid threads like:"hello my name is, I'm xx years old from ..."
 

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I think you could be an INTP but ENFJ is more likely. It's ultimately hard to tell from not knowing someone for that long but I would also add it seems like there's Fe of some magnitude based off your description of interests as I would believe Fi users to have a different attitude about some of those. I am not sure if you need to be fixated on being an INTP, necessarily.
 

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Hi everybody, so Im an 18 year old girl, wondering about her MBTI type since shes 14.
Since I grew out of depression, it became easier for me to analyze, how and who I am, so I hope this will have a right outcome.

Im a very sensitive, feely person, but only to those who really know me, and who I feel I can open up to. This includes like 5 people or less. Im very hard to get to know, but once you do and once I start letting you in, you will be able to discover what lies behind the surface. Im pretty drawn to emotional depth and connections between people, but too often Im scared away before I can reach a level of depth and comfort.
I have the deepest affection to know what lies beneath the surface, the surface that everyone sees. I want to see how things and people work in their innerest core.

Im interested in people, but more in how they are ticking, what moves them, how they think,.. like I often see people as experiments; Im always making assumtions in my head, behaving a certain way and observing how someone specific reacts to it, if my assumptions and theories are right. If I am not emotionally involved with someone, I can alter my appearance and behavior, to make a certain impression, so i can make people see me how i want them to see me. But if I start liking someone, i just want to be as honest and upright to them as I can be.

I am always observing and analysing, I find myself understanding several things, like underlying motives, which others seem oblivious to. I am only beginning to understand, that not everyone sees this things..
I am holding back most of these things, the most people are never really aware of how much I analyse, how much I see and how much I understand. But I do am clumsy, dumb and naive sometimes, because I assume everyone has the same heart as me, I would never really maniipulate someone I care for, although I could. I would never say something only to hurt someone I care for if its not the truth, I assume everyone else is that way, so Im often really confused if people start doing things like that.

I somehow soak up emotions, I am catching up vibes around me and Im often not fully aware of it. I also think that i am projecting a lot of stuff thats going on inside of me to the outside world, like assuming people are having the same heart as I do.

I have my "outward" personality, there are things, which I let everyone know, making me seem more open on the first glance, than I really am. People seeing me as "so open" can befriend me for years, somedays noticing somehow, that they know nothing about me.
I am mostly keeping my distance, not allowing anyone in because I fear getting hurt so much.
I am patient with the poeple I love, but if you mess and screw it up, I will be able to just like "cut" the connection and move on, without you. Without really missing that person. When Im done, man Im done.

I enjoy the company of others, to a limit. I shut off if it gets too much, then I just space out and need my time to think and analyse, alone and in my head.

Im not sure what to add, hopefully someone can clear things up for me :) If you need extra information, feel free to ask. And Im sorry, english is only a second language I learnt in school :cool:



You really remind me of my close INFJ friends, but that's as helpful as I can get with the information provided.
 

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Reading this I say OP is INTP. I, like an INFJ, love connections with others and love itself, but I can cut off ties quickly. I think that's an INTP thing. If we've ruled out Fi user, INTP isn't out of the question.
 
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