Meishrooms
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Hi, All.
I’d like to humbly request your assistance in typing me, assuming you have the time/boredom.
Basically, mbti is something I love with an extremely unhealthy obsession, but I don’t trust myself because a) I’m a 16 year old girl, a condition characterized by a poorly developed pre-frontal cortex, an insatiable desire to feel like a special snowflake, and uncontrollable/debilitating hormones, and b) my knowledge of mbti is basically an amalgamation of funkymbtifiction, Please Understand me II, personality junky, and Michael Pierce videos, and we all know that the internet is full of trustworthy/factual information.
I first tested as ESFJ, then ENFJ, which I thought fit better, but mostly because I was vaguely miffed that personality page lists nurse but not doctor under ESFJ career recommendations. Then I learned about cognitive functions and read a lot, a lot, a lot of probably inaccurate internet mbti material for about a year and a half, during which I briefly switched my hypothesis to INFJ before realizing that statistically, that’s highly improbable, and I’m likely an xSFJ. But hey, you never know. Maybe I’m actually just an incredibly deluded ESTP or something.
I wanted to ask the INTP forum because you guys have a penchant for cutting through bs.
Also, one of my better friends is an INTP (or so she says/I think, and given my lack of world experience/ability to even type myself, I wouldn’t trust it), and she and I get along pretty darn great. She's prety incredible. I think my penchant to be overly verbose (see: this entire post) annoys her a bit, but hey, she keeps voluntarily seeking out my company, so I figure that if she does eventually get annoyed enough with me she’ll just stop talking to me or stab me in the eye or something.
Without further ado (sorry for all the ado) here is an Arbitrary List of Characteristics
I am “creative.” To my mind, the word “creative” has completely lost its meaning, especially in my generation, a group of children raised on gold stars and positive affirmations. “Creative” is the word that teachers and parents use to make a kid (usually a girl for some reason) feel better if she has nothing else going on. And honestly, have you ever met someone who said “oh I’m not creative at all.” No, because everything thinks they’re creative. Same goes with “imaginative” and “innovative” and “unique.” Case and point, in my 8th grade expository writing class, my teacher made us choose between a squiggly line, circle, triangle, and square, and without fail, every single girl, including myself, independently chose the squiggly line. Our expos teacher laughed and said “because you’re all so ‘unique,’ right?” Yep. So while I’ve been told I’m “creative,” whatever that means, so has basically everyone else. So take it with a lump of sea salt.
I go to a school in the Bay Area where nerds and tiger moms rule. Interestingly, most of the people I ask for type end up telling me INxx or xNTP, which statistically, does’t make sense. So I’ve compiled the following list of explanations from most likely to least likely.
Online tests suck. Especially N/S and I/E questions. Honestly how is anyone supposed to answer “Do you find metaphors easy to understand?” The only way anyone would know if they found metaphors easy to understand would be to compare with others, and people don’t spend time comparing metaphor deciphering speeds to my knowledge. The deciding factor seems to be self-esteem, and since teenagers like myself want to be special snowflakes, we’re all more likely to think we’re N than S.
Since my school is so academically competitive and values Intel semifinalists like other schools value varsity letters, people subconsciously mistype to conform to my school’s values.
I’m a nerd. Not a geek, a nerd. A person who studies a lot but without the individualism/hipsterness of a geek. Maybe the people I talk to are just all nerd/geeks.
My school attracts a disproportionately large number of xNTPs because of the stress on STEM. This sounds super pretentious, but I put it on here because you never know.
I’m an atheist. I’d love to tell a super cool story about how I left the church because I’m a critical thinker who believes in free thought, etc, but I was raised non-religious. No drama there. My dad (ENFP he claims/I think/maybe maybe not) left the church, which I think is pretty cool, so that’s something. At a certain point, the differences between Atheism, agnosticism, diesm, vaguely religiousness, etc. just seem to come down to semantic issues. Is there really so much of a difference between saying that a vaguely sentient being created the universe and the universe came into being from an infinitely small particle? Maybe there is. I don’t think so.
I’m a slobbering conformist desperate for the approval of others. I’m pretty darn sure I’m Fe. I’m the kind of person who uses emoticons in work-related emails so that I can make sure people don’t think I’m angry at them, even if I am angry at them. Case and point: I’m trying my best to make this post self-deprecating so people don’t think I’m a typist, arrogant, ignoramus.
I’m shallow. Incredibly so. I like shoes, and doing makeup, and watching Buzzfeed videos. I’d say shallow like a puddle, but I’m too busy checking my reflection in it. That sounds like one of the aforementioned self-depricating comments, but I’m pretty sure I’ve actually done it.
My favorite subjects are physics and euro. I may be shallow, but at least I’m a shallow nerd? I think it would be cool if I’m an xSFJ because then I could be like “woohoo I’m defying the stereotype that xSxx types aren’t book smart self five!!!” because again, special snowflake teenager prefrontal cortex complex.
Writing is a thing I do, but then again, so does like everyone my age. I’m opinion editor of the newspaper, and I’ve done creative writing since… a long time? I could post something I wrote, but looking at the length of this post, I doubt you need any more of my writing.
I’m bad at thinking on my feet. Terrible, in fact. I’ll attempt witty discourse and then not have a comeback until 10 minutes after I need it. Impromptu things are hard. I like plans, preparation, J things, etc.
I’m loud and I talk a lot, but I’m not a “social dynamo” in the traditional Fe dominant sense. Probably because I’m a 16 year old girl, a type of person known for crippling insecurity during high school. I keep going to school dances and functions because i always assume they’ll be fun, but they’re never much of anything. They’re perfectly fine. I usually end up in the corner talking or monopolizing the photo booth. Remember what I sad about being shallow?
I like science puns. A lot. I’d tell a chemistry joke, but all my puns Argon. *snicker* Ok I’m done. Not sure what you were supposed to get from that, but whatever.
I’ve tried to avoid actually telling you guys anything concrete/purposeful because I think you’ll probably get a better reading if I just ramble on for a while without a plan or structure to hopefully stop myself from trying to make myself sound like one type or the other. Has this been sufficient? I’m pretty sure I’m an ESFJ. Am I right?
If you read this whole thing, I’m very grateful/impressed. Thank you for your time.
I’d like to humbly request your assistance in typing me, assuming you have the time/boredom.
Basically, mbti is something I love with an extremely unhealthy obsession, but I don’t trust myself because a) I’m a 16 year old girl, a condition characterized by a poorly developed pre-frontal cortex, an insatiable desire to feel like a special snowflake, and uncontrollable/debilitating hormones, and b) my knowledge of mbti is basically an amalgamation of funkymbtifiction, Please Understand me II, personality junky, and Michael Pierce videos, and we all know that the internet is full of trustworthy/factual information.
I first tested as ESFJ, then ENFJ, which I thought fit better, but mostly because I was vaguely miffed that personality page lists nurse but not doctor under ESFJ career recommendations. Then I learned about cognitive functions and read a lot, a lot, a lot of probably inaccurate internet mbti material for about a year and a half, during which I briefly switched my hypothesis to INFJ before realizing that statistically, that’s highly improbable, and I’m likely an xSFJ. But hey, you never know. Maybe I’m actually just an incredibly deluded ESTP or something.
I wanted to ask the INTP forum because you guys have a penchant for cutting through bs.
Also, one of my better friends is an INTP (or so she says/I think, and given my lack of world experience/ability to even type myself, I wouldn’t trust it), and she and I get along pretty darn great. She's prety incredible. I think my penchant to be overly verbose (see: this entire post) annoys her a bit, but hey, she keeps voluntarily seeking out my company, so I figure that if she does eventually get annoyed enough with me she’ll just stop talking to me or stab me in the eye or something.
Without further ado (sorry for all the ado) here is an Arbitrary List of Characteristics
I am “creative.” To my mind, the word “creative” has completely lost its meaning, especially in my generation, a group of children raised on gold stars and positive affirmations. “Creative” is the word that teachers and parents use to make a kid (usually a girl for some reason) feel better if she has nothing else going on. And honestly, have you ever met someone who said “oh I’m not creative at all.” No, because everything thinks they’re creative. Same goes with “imaginative” and “innovative” and “unique.” Case and point, in my 8th grade expository writing class, my teacher made us choose between a squiggly line, circle, triangle, and square, and without fail, every single girl, including myself, independently chose the squiggly line. Our expos teacher laughed and said “because you’re all so ‘unique,’ right?” Yep. So while I’ve been told I’m “creative,” whatever that means, so has basically everyone else. So take it with a lump of sea salt.
I go to a school in the Bay Area where nerds and tiger moms rule. Interestingly, most of the people I ask for type end up telling me INxx or xNTP, which statistically, does’t make sense. So I’ve compiled the following list of explanations from most likely to least likely.
Online tests suck. Especially N/S and I/E questions. Honestly how is anyone supposed to answer “Do you find metaphors easy to understand?” The only way anyone would know if they found metaphors easy to understand would be to compare with others, and people don’t spend time comparing metaphor deciphering speeds to my knowledge. The deciding factor seems to be self-esteem, and since teenagers like myself want to be special snowflakes, we’re all more likely to think we’re N than S.
Since my school is so academically competitive and values Intel semifinalists like other schools value varsity letters, people subconsciously mistype to conform to my school’s values.
I’m a nerd. Not a geek, a nerd. A person who studies a lot but without the individualism/hipsterness of a geek. Maybe the people I talk to are just all nerd/geeks.
My school attracts a disproportionately large number of xNTPs because of the stress on STEM. This sounds super pretentious, but I put it on here because you never know.
I’m an atheist. I’d love to tell a super cool story about how I left the church because I’m a critical thinker who believes in free thought, etc, but I was raised non-religious. No drama there. My dad (ENFP he claims/I think/maybe maybe not) left the church, which I think is pretty cool, so that’s something. At a certain point, the differences between Atheism, agnosticism, diesm, vaguely religiousness, etc. just seem to come down to semantic issues. Is there really so much of a difference between saying that a vaguely sentient being created the universe and the universe came into being from an infinitely small particle? Maybe there is. I don’t think so.
I’m a slobbering conformist desperate for the approval of others. I’m pretty darn sure I’m Fe. I’m the kind of person who uses emoticons in work-related emails so that I can make sure people don’t think I’m angry at them, even if I am angry at them. Case and point: I’m trying my best to make this post self-deprecating so people don’t think I’m a typist, arrogant, ignoramus.
I’m shallow. Incredibly so. I like shoes, and doing makeup, and watching Buzzfeed videos. I’d say shallow like a puddle, but I’m too busy checking my reflection in it. That sounds like one of the aforementioned self-depricating comments, but I’m pretty sure I’ve actually done it.
My favorite subjects are physics and euro. I may be shallow, but at least I’m a shallow nerd? I think it would be cool if I’m an xSFJ because then I could be like “woohoo I’m defying the stereotype that xSxx types aren’t book smart self five!!!” because again, special snowflake teenager prefrontal cortex complex.
Writing is a thing I do, but then again, so does like everyone my age. I’m opinion editor of the newspaper, and I’ve done creative writing since… a long time? I could post something I wrote, but looking at the length of this post, I doubt you need any more of my writing.
I’m bad at thinking on my feet. Terrible, in fact. I’ll attempt witty discourse and then not have a comeback until 10 minutes after I need it. Impromptu things are hard. I like plans, preparation, J things, etc.
I’m loud and I talk a lot, but I’m not a “social dynamo” in the traditional Fe dominant sense. Probably because I’m a 16 year old girl, a type of person known for crippling insecurity during high school. I keep going to school dances and functions because i always assume they’ll be fun, but they’re never much of anything. They’re perfectly fine. I usually end up in the corner talking or monopolizing the photo booth. Remember what I sad about being shallow?
I like science puns. A lot. I’d tell a chemistry joke, but all my puns Argon. *snicker* Ok I’m done. Not sure what you were supposed to get from that, but whatever.
I’ve tried to avoid actually telling you guys anything concrete/purposeful because I think you’ll probably get a better reading if I just ramble on for a while without a plan or structure to hopefully stop myself from trying to make myself sound like one type or the other. Has this been sufficient? I’m pretty sure I’m an ESFJ. Am I right?
If you read this whole thing, I’m very grateful/impressed. Thank you for your time.
