Asperger and Myers-Briggs Personality Type

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I have scored INFJ very consistently on the MBTI for the last several years, ever since I had to take it in a personality theory class as an undergraduate. Coincidentally, I also score very high on the AQ (autism spectrum quotient), and very low on the EQ (empathy quotient) and FQ (friendship quotient). I will be 30 in December and am undiagnosed, although I was misdiagnosed as bipolar at the age of 13 due to my bouts of depression and frequent, often violent, meltdowns. I still get those today, when overwhelmed. Meltdowns, I mean, occasionally involving destruction of property and self-harm. I am always humiliated afterward, but just find it extremely difficult to control what I do in the moment. This almost always stems from being confronted about something, and being unable to effectively answer questions posed to me regarding my thoughts, feelings, or actions pertaining to some situation.

So, regarding the INFJ type, or at least in my experience, I find it odd that I score so low on the empathy scale, considering that I do have feelings; I just am often unable to describe them when they are mixed. So, I do tend to actually feel things very intensely, and another feature involving intuition is that I can sense the mood of those around me, and it affects me deeply when this mood is negative. I have a problem with discrimination of other peoples' emotions, so when those emotions are negative, I feel like I am being personally assaulted. Especially if that feeling is anger, even when not directed at me, I often have to get out of the room because I become extremely nervous, like the angry person will lash out at me at any moment. This drives my boyfriend nuts, because he is always explaining "I'm not angry at you, I'm angry at the situation."

However, feeling really has nothing to do with empathy, as empathy refers to the ability to feel like another. This I simply cannot do. Unless I see someone or an animal being harmed physically in a grotesque way, then I feel and have to look away. Other than that, though, I definitely have to remind myself of things like to reciprocate when someone asks me, "How are you?" to ask it back afterward, and I will mimic what other people say to people in somber situations, like loss of a loved one. Those are the toughest for me because my only programmed responses are "I'm so sorry for your loss" and "my condolences to your family." Anything beyond that and I am at a complete loss for words and just feel anxious and uncomfortable, hoping the topic will suddenly shift to something more lighthearted.

I've been tested a few times over the decades and usually come up INTJ.

Guess I'm in good company.

It is good to remember that the principles that the Meyers-Briggs test are based upon are much wider. The original theory has 16 different characteristic pairs instead of four. The worked to expand it a bit and as far as I know the most advanced version of the test has 5 characteristic pairs. For example, on the improved test, I would be an INTJD more consistently consistently, but on the popular version of the test, I vary between INTJ and INTP. This is because the new variable helps balance the J/P pair. Each of the major four character pairs have subsets that balance them.

The reason that the results of the test change with the mood is that the test has never been completed (due to complexity) and studies show that the popular test actually has an accuracy of no more than 40% and thus it must be taken many times and the results averaged to make it accurate.

INTP, not really borderline on any of them.

Consistently INTP down the years

INTJ here

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I hate this test. It's oddly worded with a lot of redundant questions and some are hard to answer. I think the last time I took it I got INTJ.

I'm INFP. Always have been. Never gotten results for anything else, despite having taken it multiple times in various forms.

I also have an Aspie friend who's INTJ. People more readily recognize him as Autistic than me-- which can be frustrating at times because people don't believe me, especially when compared directly to him. But I think part of that is gender-bias , too. People more readily believe men and boys are Autistic than anyone else (and skew the testing criteria/traits-analysis along gender lines).

I am a strongly INFP with ASD recently diagnosed.
People tell me often that I am odd and different than others.

INTJ
Introvert (100%) iNtuitive (62%) Thinking (62%) Judging (1%)

Strong preference of Introversion over Extoversion (100%)
You have distinct preference of Intuition over Sensing (62%)
You have distinct preference of Thinking over Feeling (62%)
You have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%)

(I'm a INTJ 5w4 sp/sx)

I just took it and got INFP. Not that I am familiar with it or know what significance this has...

You have distinct preference of Introversion over Extraversion (67%)
You have strong preference of Intuition over Sensing (88%)
You have distinct preference of Feeling over Thinking (62%)
You have slight preference of Perceiving over Judging (11%)

1st: INFP or 2nd: INTP. Took a test in 2008. I know a person who is extraverted as an adult but introverted and Aspie as a child. Can aperson shift like that?

Jung, whose theory of personality the Myers Briggs tests were based on, felt strongly that people could flip their type (usually in their thirties but not confined to then - if I remember rightly). However we are Aspergers for life so that will have remained the same. And we learn, so, as the definition of an introvert is someone who needs time to recover having been in the company of others, perhaps your friend adapted and felt less overwhelmed by company. But it is a linear scale so they may have only been JUST inside the margin of extroversion - 1% say... ☺️