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Originally Posted by sarah
So I'm starting to get a couple of people on this list emailing me to question my type preferences now. It happened on another type discussion list I was on, and I managed to convince them that there are all different flavors of the same type. It's really kind of irritating, though.
Am I really that untypical of ISFPs? I mean, shoot, I'm stereotypical in that I'm an actual artist, I love nature, I love little kids, I'm a pacifist and an environmentalist, I try to make everything in my life as beautiful as possible, I move gracefully, I care tremendously about staying lithe and fit, I notice the world in great detail and love pleasurable sensations, and I care about improving the aesthetics of everything. This stuff is my passion.
Is it just because I speak my mind, and I was brought up in a family that expected their daughters not only to talk coherently but also write in complete sentences with correct grammar (my mother majored in English literature in college and worked as a copy editor)? Is it because I care about psychological type enough to have read a number of books on the subject? Is it because I have rather "highbrow" interests? Or because I have spiritual opinions (which I've never even mentioned on this list yet, so that can't be it!) Is it because people think introverted feeling = the NF temperament? Is it because I say I have an imagination? What's going on here?
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I haven't really read a lot of your posts, Sarah, but I don't have any problems with the ISFP read.
What people don't seem to get is that Fi is very strong in ISFPs, not just INFPs. Honestly, since the S's tend to be more "tangible," I find the Fi even more obvious to me with them in my interactions because the INFPs can get rather ethereal and the Ne becomes more apparent. ISFPs might flex alot in terms of how things get done and seem easy-going, but their personal commitment to their values has been very intense when I've witnessed it and sometimes the judgment against those who violate them can be very strong.
Your whole middle paragraph sounds stereotypically ISFP. No problems with that.
Even after reading the third paragraph, I'm not sure why people would question it at the moment. You might have some non-stereotypical behavior but I'm not sure yet how it pans out.