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24 Aug 2011, 2:50 pm

infj +1



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I am an INFJ. Sometimes (depending on how I read the questions), I will get a P instead. Actually, when I was younger, my F was very strong, but over the past several years, the T and the F have been getting closer, as have the I and E. The N and S have been pretty constant. I may be totally off wit this, but I would guess that those who score J instead of P have more OCD tendencies than the P's.


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25 Dec 2012, 9:35 pm

I am an INFP but I mistype as INTP every time because of my aspie traits. However, I score high on Fi and low on Ti.



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25 Dec 2012, 11:11 pm

Dnuos wrote:
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I found another INFP with Aspergers!
It must be pretty rare then...

Even rarer to find another INFP guy with Aspergers. >.> Maybe impossible...


Nope. That's me.
I'm INFP 100% of the time.

(well, assuming I do have AS)



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25 Dec 2012, 11:46 pm

Moog wrote:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt67764.html

According to that poll, it's not common. But maybe it's just that INFPs don't like responding to polls.
Comparing those results (INFP 9%) with this distribution estimate, INFPs may be more common among people with Aspergers than among the general population (INFP 4-5%).


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25 Dec 2012, 11:50 pm

I should think it be weird for an autistic to be an ENFP or ENFJ, but I've seen a couple of therapists who told me they could see I was and see I was autistic.



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26 Dec 2012, 6:09 am

I'm INTJ. I had no idea it was a more male way of thinking (I'm female) or that it was rare for a female. It's funny because I look very female but have often felt like I think like a man in some ways and in the BEM questionnaire I came out near the centre line between "undifferentiated" and "androgynous" near the masculine side.


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26 Dec 2012, 9:41 am

whirlingmind wrote:
I'm INTJ. I had no idea it was a more male way of thinking (I'm female) or that it was rare for a female. It's funny because I look very female but have often felt like I think like a man in some ways and in the BEM questionnaire I came out near the centre line between "undifferentiated" and "androgynous" near the masculine side.
It's not that much more common among males than females.


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26 Dec 2012, 9:58 am

GreatSphinx wrote:
I am an INFJ. Sometimes (depending on how I read the questions), I will get a P instead. Actually, when I was younger, my F was very strong, but over the past several years, the T and the F have been getting closer, as have the I and E. The N and S have been pretty constant. I may be totally off wit this, but I would guess that those who score J instead of P have more OCD tendencies than the P's.


Not in my case. I have been diagnosed with OCD and the last time I checked I was INFP. I'm feeling more extroverted lately just like you so I'll have to check again to make sure I'm not more of an ENFP now.



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26 Dec 2012, 10:07 am

I am an INFP.

In my case, I have some inherent Aspie traits but picked up others from my family. My parents and brother are definitely introverted thinkers with a number of AS traits, and for years I tried to relate to them and to the world by following their example of logically thinking about everything. It wasn't really natural for me, so trying to be that way made me very anxious and nervous.

The more I trust my intuitions and feelings, the happier I am.



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26 Dec 2012, 10:11 am

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I think INTJ is pretty much the prototypical Aspy personality, but I myself seem to be an INFP, just not a normal one. The way I look at it is, the INTJ and INFP personalities seem to be "inside out" versions of each other: INTJ - seems harsh, critical, cynical on the outside, actually very optimistic and idealistic on the inside. INFP - seems very idealistic and optimistic on the outside, actually very cynical on the inside. As for me, I confuse people because I have both pragmatic and idealistic qualities, inside and out. It's rather hard to say which is dominant. :o


I find this really interesting. I would say that I am INFP, and actually idealistic and optimistic on the inside and more cynical on the outside. Most of the people I know do seem to be more negative and cynical, and I don't like it when people tell me that I am naive, a cockeyed optimist, or a Pollyanna. I want people to take me seriously, so I hide how idealistic and optimistic I am at times. The more I let my positive optimism show, I think the better people relate to me. It's not the optimism that people relate to as much as the fact that they can sense that I'm being more authentic.



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26 Dec 2012, 10:42 am

I am another INFP

I = 56%
N = 12%
F = 50%
P = 11%



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26 Dec 2012, 10:51 am

urbanpixie wrote:
rowingineden wrote:
I think INTJ is pretty much the prototypical Aspy personality, but I myself seem to be an INFP, just not a normal one. The way I look at it is, the INTJ and INFP personalities seem to be "inside out" versions of each other: INTJ - seems harsh, critical, cynical on the outside, actually very optimistic and idealistic on the inside. INFP - seems very idealistic and optimistic on the outside, actually very cynical on the inside. As for me, I confuse people because I have both pragmatic and idealistic qualities, inside and out. It's rather hard to say which is dominant. :o


I find this really interesting. I would say that I am INFP, and actually idealistic and optimistic on the inside and more cynical on the outside. Most of the people I know do seem to be more negative and cynical, and I don't like it when people tell me that I am naive, a cockeyed optimist, or a Pollyanna. I want people to take me seriously, so I hide how idealistic and optimistic I am at times. The more I let my positive optimism show, I think the better people relate to me. It's not the optimism that people relate to as much as the fact that they can sense that I'm being more authentic.

People tend to treat me as if I'm much younger and more naive than I am.


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26 Dec 2012, 10:58 am

GreatSphinx wrote:
I am an INFJ. Sometimes (depending on how I read the questions), I will get a P instead. Actually, when I was younger, my F was very strong, but over the past several years, the T and the F have been getting closer, as have the I and E. The N and S have been pretty constant. I may be totally off wit this, but I would guess that those who score J instead of P have more OCD tendencies than the P's.


This makes a lot of sense to me, since in an INFJ the weakest function is sensing, which has to do with our perception of and relationship to physical reality, which seems to be what being OCD is about in a lot of ways. I also wonder if it has to do with asexuality.

I sometimes test as INFJ (sometimes even as INxx), though my usual preference is INFP (where sensing is the third function, so weak as well, and introverted). There are times when I get into an almost OCD way of dealing with reality. It makes me very squeamish, and pretty much ruined gardening for me.


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BlueAbyss wrote:
urbanpixie wrote:
rowingineden wrote:
I think INTJ is pretty much the prototypical Aspy personality, but I myself seem to be an INFP, just not a normal one. The way I look at it is, the INTJ and INFP personalities seem to be "inside out" versions of each other: INTJ - seems harsh, critical, cynical on the outside, actually very optimistic and idealistic on the inside. INFP - seems very idealistic and optimistic on the outside, actually very cynical on the inside. As for me, I confuse people because I have both pragmatic and idealistic qualities, inside and out. It's rather hard to say which is dominant. :o


I find this really interesting. I would say that I am INFP, and actually idealistic and optimistic on the inside and more cynical on the outside. Most of the people I know do seem to be more negative and cynical, and I don't like it when people tell me that I am naive, a cockeyed optimist, or a Pollyanna. I want people to take me seriously, so I hide how idealistic and optimistic I am at times. The more I let my positive optimism show, I think the better people relate to me. It's not the optimism that people relate to as much as the fact that they can sense that I'm being more authentic.

People tend to treat me as if I'm much younger and more naive than I am.


I get that too--being treated as younger and more naive than I am. I also get the cockeyed optimist/Pollyanna comments. As a male INFP aspie I can be a paradox. I feel a need to reach out and empathize with other people, but my poor social skills keep me from expressing this meaningfully. A lot of people think that the "F" can't apply to aspies because we're not supposed to have empathy, but actually the so-called lack of empathy is really just a breakdown in intuitive understanding of other people's feelings, but that doesn't mean we can't consciously be aware of the need to empathize. Maybe some aspies do lack empathy altogether, but I think most of us just can't get our feelings for others across in a way that is meaningful to them. It tends to stay bottled up. I think that being an INFP idealist and having Asperger's at the same time makes for a very confusing and frustrating existence. I have the desire to help people but also want to be left alone. I constantly worry about hurting people's feelings, but I have the aspie "foot-in-mouth" disease, so I end up keeping things to myself to avoid saying the wrong thing. It may look like I don't care, when I may actually care more than anyone else.


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Aimless wrote:
reading the differences between feeling and thinking I can't say either one describes me completely. Each category has one or two that do apply and others that absolutely do not apply.


The MBTI only shows what "function" you prefer to use, it doesn't exclude one from the other. (: You need all the functions.

I'm an aspie INFP female and sometimes I think my my extreme introversion is the only reason I got a diagnosis, but I dunno. Although my F used to be pretty extreme when I was younger it's the "weakest" of my letters now and I'm almost tipping over to T, but still quite..solidly not.

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