Asperger's and the Myers-Briggs

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ISTJ here too

I'm INTJ but not sure if I'm an Aspie.

Aspe
I'm INTJ (Rational Mastermind).
With:
I: 45%, N: 75%, T: 75%, J:65%

I had my wife and 4-5 friends do the test and it seems to fit with the real person.

INTJ Mastermind

Introverted 89%
Intuitive 62%
Thinking 25%
Judging 33%

INTP/J (in the border between the two)

The MBTI is completely unscientific because it is based on a dichotomous idea of personality. There is very little test-retest reliability. I remember from my college psych textbook there was a study where the administered the test to the same people once and then a month later, and many had changed personality type. I always score as introverted, but all the other variables change depending on when I'm taking which test (the official test is nowhere online because it is very expensive and you need special training to administer it, all the online ones are somewhat based on the MBTI). Most common type for me to score is INTJ, and I neve rheard there was an Aspie personality type. Would seem strange to me also, as the traits only sperficially appear to relate to AS features (and in that case the most logical AS type, ie. that which most corresponds to the AS stereotype, would be ISTJ).

I don't know much in Psychology that is scientific. Either way, I always score an INTP on the Myers Briggs, and I've taken the actual one once in school, and again years later in the military. I have gotten other scores on online ones, but I can tell they really didn't understand the Myers Briggs theory too well. I did find one on facebook I liked that got me the same results. To be honest, you shouldn't really need a test to know what your results are going to be. I am usually pretty accurate at guessing people's results if I know them well enough.

I don't think there is an Aspie personality type because the things that define Aspies are not in the Myer's Briggs, but I do think it would almost be safer to consider Aspergers a personality type in of itself as opposed to a disorder/syndrome. Either way, I think many Aspies can be very extroverted and either learn to become introverted because they weren't accepted by society, or they can remain extroverted because they were able to make friends. My daughter is diagnosed PDD NOS (because of the speech delay only, otherwise she'd be Aspergers), and she interacts with other people very well. Her diagnosis comes from more the repetitive behaviors and other oddities of Aspergers. Because Myer's Briggs is a scale, it's hard to say they would be more sensing than intuitive just because they can have heightened senses. It's more about how you base your decisions rather than what you use the most. My senses are heightened more so than the next guy, and I'm still an N because I also believe I don't have to sense it for it to exist. The same can be said for the thinking/feeling. Someone can be really logic based and still base many of their decisions on emotion. As for the JP, you can still have routines and not follow a strict schedule and be spontaneous. I have my routines I have to have (especially when I first wake up and right before I go to bed), but I'm still very spontaneous as long as I can still do my routines that I require. Actually, i think my Aspergers special interests is what keeps me more spontaneous because I like waking up, doing my morning routine, and then start my day with whatever I feel like doing at the time, and then when I feel like stopping, I stop and do something else I just feel like doing. Either way, I think the whole purpose of personality is to come up with aspects of a person that doesn't change much over time (it can change, but generally speaking type thing) and be universal (meaning it doesn't matter what culture you are a part of, it will still pertain to you and still show similar diverse results between cultures...and that same cultural concept can be shared with people with disorders).

ENTP. The inventor.

Ah, I was wondering about this too. I'll just bump an old thread and annoy everyone...
I'm an INTP or an INFP, depending on... uh... the phase of the moon? But really, I've taken it many times over the years, and though the scores have changed somewhat, they certainly haven't inverted completely. I'm near the borderline on Introversion/Extroversion and Thinking/Feeling, so they've changed a bit - I was, briefly, just barely on the Extroverted side as a teen - but the intuitive and perceiving are way at the end of the scale and do not change significantly.
Perhaps instead of the way it's done now, which reinforces this false dichotomy in each category, people should be assigned a number for each on a scale of 1-10 or 1-100? That is how the test is scored in the first place, isn't it, but I suppose if it doesn't lend itself to the easy to grasp astrology-style personality typing business, people won't like it. "I'm a 73/94/67/98" somehow doesn't have the same ring as "I'm an INTP".*shrug*

INTJ (Mastermind).

I'm an ISTJ myself. Strong I & very strong J. The S & T are only moderate. From the research I've done; that seems to fit well.

I took the Myers-Briggs as part of a career workshop and got INFP. I'm not sure how accurate it was, but it also told me my number one career would be a musician.
On another online Myers-Briggs I got ISTJ but the INFP one was more in-depth. N and F are slightly expressed though, while I is strong.

The last one I got, INTJ.

100% I
15% I/N
75% T
78% J

There's a thread with the poll.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt67764.html

You can see that the predominant Aspie type is INTJ, but there is still a lot of variation. I guess people on the spectrum are promarily introverts, and dominantly intuitive. But as with everything, there are exceptions. In my opinion, the true type of a lot of people on the spectrum is suppressed. I've learned that a lot of people on the spectrum are extroverted as kids and then turn inward as the outside world presses on them. From analyzing my own experiences and those of other people on the spectrum, I've come to the conclusion that some people with AS can become extroverted in the right environment (being able to be immersed in their narrow interest). Also, I've found that change in my routine makes me come across as more introverted. Sensory overload does that to me, too.

My type is ENTJ, as confirmed by a group of people who know me well.

"I've learned that a lot of people on the spectrum are extroverted as kids and then turn inward as the outside world presses on them."

Oh wow...very interesting...I know I started out incredibly outgoing as a kid, and now I alternate between intensely shy and impulsively outgoing, depending on how comfortable I feel. I have to ask, though, doesn't being extroverted also involve being energized by social interaction? (Whereas introverts aren't necessarily shy, but have to limit social interaction because it drains them?) My understanding was that being exhausted by social interaction was a spectrum characteristic...

Just for statistical purposes, I'm an INFP. 100% N, 70 something% I and P, right on the borderline between F and T (like, 53/47). Of all the types, INTPs are the easiest for me to understand, and SJs are the most difficult.

I am energized by social interaction provided that there are no outside sensory stimuli that will drain my energy. I like interaction of any sort; I am very energetic, I like being the center of attention, and need that constant give and take. However, my sensory processing issues, as well as my information processing speed, get in the way when I have a conversation. It usually ends up that when the person I'm talking to talks too much, I can't contribute anything. As a result, I often try to take control of the conversation.

I socialize with people who are very straightforward and blunt, so the conversations are not difficult to participate in. I don't do the NT act, however. Which means that I don't make much eye contact, pretty much speak what's on my mind, and fidget constantly to keep myself calm. Once I start doing the NT act, however, I become exhausted extremely quickly.

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