What is your Myer-Briggs personality type?

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Last semester, I was forced into the Education, Career, and Personal Development class. As part of the class, we had to take a MBTI test. I scored as a INTJ. I think there was one other person in that class that had that same result. Most of the people that were forced into that class along with me were feelers.

Wow. This wonders me. Where was my brain all of times that I watched the folks on YouTube, giving their descriptions of what it's like to live with AS. I spent several months hanging out on an email list for folks who are INTJ a few years ago. It didn't get past me that some of the folks giving YouTube testimonies were assessing as AS attributes, behaviors that in other contexts were considered common attributes of INTJ, but I missed what was staring me in the face. Their vibes felt so much like the vibes of the folks that I got to know and love on that INTJ email list. Gee. Duh. I know this wasn't your original intention for posting here, but all the same, thank you for bringing this to my attention. If most folks who have AS really are INTP or INTJ, then I probably don't have a lot in common with you, but I have a lot of experience to draw from to enable me to better understand you. Of course this doesn't explain the folks I have encountered who are ENFP and have AS, if AS is to INTJ as ADD is to INFP, examples of mental diagnosis being slapped upon normal behaviors of rare personality types. I'll keep reading. This is interesting.

I too am a feeler. I remember how some folks I have met who are INTJ considered NF types, particularly NFP types, to be their diabolical opposite, and the hardest types to make any logical sense of. I'm sorry if your being put in that class made you feel like some kind of alien creature.

Of course your real problem was with the management of the entity you worked for, making assumptions about you, based upon the results of one test, and nothing to do with the originators, or the researchers who base their practice on the theory. You have generalized your disdain from one bad experience onto the entire system. This is a common response to bad experiences it seems. After I graduated from high school, I was wanting to reject all of masculinity just because all of the bullies who gave me hell in high school were male peers.