How does one behave when one evolves one's other functions?

[scorpiomover]

I showed all the characteristics of an INTP since I was a child.

However, some on INTJf have called me an INTJ, some an ISFJ, some an INFP, and a few posters here have called me an INFJ.

I'm struggling to understand why they would type me differently.

I developed my Ne in my 20s, my Si in my 30s, and now I'm developing my Fe. So it could be that they are seeing me Fe come out more now.

I'm also spending a lot of time on INTJf, learning about Ni, and how it works. I'm also spending a lot of time with my INFJ sister, and an ENFJ friend who I've learned to understand. INTPs are supposed to be social chameleons, who often mimic those they are around, and I'm thus mimicking them.

On the other hand, I suffered from major anxiety and depression since I was 4. I've been working on my own control of my emotions, to get over it, for a long time. I'm finally getting somewhere with it. Jung wrote that some people's type can be suppressed, because of the way they were raised, and that the original type can only return, when the problems are sorted. So then, I could have always been an INFJ, only that I had problems, that forced me to become an INTP, and now that I'm dealing better with life, INFJ resurfaced.

How would I know which is the the more accurate representation of my type?

Do I take other people's word for it? If so, then which? The people who know me IRL? Or the online posters? Which ones? Only a few posters say this, and only those who I'm disagreeing with in online forum threads, and they're not entirely consistent. I even posted a thread on INTJf asking what my type was, and the majority said I was clearly an INTP.

Do I rely on what Jung wrote about INFJs and INTPs?

Do I rely on what Personality Junkie and other online sites say is my type?

Have I simply developed my other functions, and this is what an INTP who has developed his other functions looks like to INTPs?

Have I changed my type, as Jung claimed, and I've evolved into an INFJ?

Was I always an INFJ, and it's only coming out now?

I don't know.

 

[Black Rose]

I think the reason you are conflicted is because your at the stage where typologies blend together (Individuation). Also your probably above average. This allows you to contemplate emotions and abstractions on a higher level in the right/left brain as tolerance for ambiguity and greater mind sight. You simply know more with respect to this.

I think Ti is linked to working memory rearrange sequences of information stored in Si. I believe that functions operate in parallel pairs. I was told that I use both Ni and Se in oscillation. (Px-Jx) cognitivetype.com

what I don't understand is why MBTI is linear. That's not how the brain works as contained in a single modular circuit.

I don't completely know how the functions work but it is in development to what cognitive processes we become aware of first or simultaneously.

 

[SpaceYeti]

How does one behave when one evolves one's other functions?

Maturely.

 

[r4ch3l]

This is interesting. I inherently had a lot of INFJ traits (and also preschool-&-beyond anxiety and anhedonia -- i.e. what's the point of building this stupid fort, it's just going to be torn down at the end of class and won't look like I imagined in my head anyway") as a girl; loved reading, animals, had a wild imagination, lived to impress adults....was very justice-oriented and could not comprehend the ignorance and cruelty I saw around me. Philosophical thoughts (regarding time, memory, perception, death) from a very early age.

My parents pushed me hard in school and my dad is an ISTP so I got into trouble for being emotional. I learned to put up a wall and be the "best", how to be rational to gain approval and stay out of trouble. I feel like a lot of my NT-ness is a defense mechanism but at the same time I think I probably have always been an INTP because of my Ti-without-an-off-switch and very strong tendency toward P vs. J.

I would think that almost all children are going to be more "feelers" (attachment to parents) and "judgers" (drawing distinctions to categorize and make sense of the world) and hypothesize that as we become young adults we settle into a more fixed type.

What do you mean by dealing better with life? Better coping strategies? Or have you evolved out of less-than-optimal situations regarding the basics (employment, relationships, health, etc.) that make you feel more grounded?