[MBTI General] Being Mistaken for Another Type

[AutumnReverie]

Have you ever been mistaken for another type? Which types and what reasons did they give?

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I'll start...

My type: ISTJ
Mistaken for:

ISFJ - I get this a lot, usually from people who don't know me that well. They say I'm really "nice" and "patient" and such. Which, I guess maybe I am, but ISTJs can be that way too! I've even been told that I have the ability to be "bubbly" but I don't believe that. Anyways, the people who I'm actually close with know about my "T". My social awkwardness, sarcasm, dislike of talking about my ~feelings, un-touch feely personality, and logical thinking style, can only go undetected for so long.

xNxx - My closest friend (an INFJ) always says that I'm really intuitive. I keep having to correct him by telling him that I'm not "intuitive", I'm observant! I make my judgments based on what I see and hear, what's in front of me -- not any sort of "psychic feeling" like he does.

xNFJ - An English professor I had last year, who I would usually walk with for a bit and talk to after class, said that I was a "constant thinker" that had interesting insights based on the literature I read and had a talent for drawing connections between those literary insights and real life. He also thought I was a great writer and wanted me to ditch my Psych major for English . I think he didn't understand that ISTJs can be all these things too! ISTJs can have a love for literature and creative writing and be insightful too. ​

 

[Edgar]

I get mistaken for being GAY all the time...

 

[AutumnReverie]

Haha, reasons given?

 

[Thursday]

ISFP because I am an easy going artist and i am very sensual

 

[AutumnReverie]

Ah yes, a lot of people mistakenly assume that Artists = Artisan (SP). My sister is an ISFP and she doesn't draw or paint at all.

 

[BlueScreen]

ENTP - By psychologist and careers counsellor. Both changed their mind after chatting for a while. I tend to talk a lot about science because I've grown up with science and maths.

INTP - by association with my father. Though the difference is obvious.

INFP - once or twice because I've grown up with introverts so learnt to not let my extroversion go as often.

 

[PoprocksAndCoke]

xNTP - My blunt, devil's advocate attitude towards those I dislike.
ESTP - My art teacher caims this. I'm a rebellious tomboy artist, doesn't make me an SP!
INTJ - Because, apparently, I'm a geek. INTJs aren't all geeks! ^^
INFP - My romantic notions, apparently.
ENFP - I'm just quirky like that.

 

[Giggly]

I get mistaken for being GAY all the time...

You pique their interest.

 

[Charmed Justice]

Most of my friends think I'm either an ENTP or ENTJ.

 

[IZthe411]

I'll get ESTJ sometimes.

 

[Amargith]

INFJ several times, especially when talking one on one with people about serious issues.
ENFJ once or twice, mostly when I try and repair harmony in a group coz it's bugging me.
INFP/ENFP all the time (nobody knows, not even myself, what the correct one is)
ENTJ, recent addition and one of my favs. I was in a pissy mood, so I don't blame them for typing me that way

Oh and one ESFP, irl by a psychologist who was still learning MBTI at the time and had nothing but sensors around him...

 

[StephMC]

INTP - My ENFP sister and INTJ brother both think I'm more N than S. Although my sister thinks I'm more of an IXTP.

ESTP - there are a few people that get to see a more Extroverted me that have a hard time believing I'm an introvert. But that's probably because I felt comfortable around them from the get go.

And in general, people that don't know me well but are familiar with MBTI seem skeptical I'm an ISTP. Mostly just because I'm female. And okay... I'm not all that into extreme sports or athletics. Or even regular sports, for that matter.

 

[BlackCat]

INFP- I'm sure half the forum still thinks I'm one.

 

[Oaky]

INTP - Because I'm sometimes really laid back around my friends.
INFJ - Because I'm nice sometimes and because I'm not always so pessimistic.
ISTJ - I was testing acting out different personalities for a social experiment.

 

[Siúil a Rúin]

INFP

 

[Totenkindly]

I am most often called an INFP.

I have a pretty well-developed F, and I have an NF-y feel to my social interactions.

I also focus on softer sciences and relational issues, rather than harder science and more rigorous conventionally T-style subjects.

I play "mom" here to some, another F-style thing.

Most of these people also met me first on INTPc, where I joined a few years ago, and my behavior as expressed on the forum then differs in some ways than what I express now. I was neurotic, emotionally unstable in some ways, hypersensitive, etc, and I took a far more F role in the forum dynamics at the time. When I dealt with my personality issues and got out of my restrictive religious environment so I could be myself, my presented personality actually began to shift. But that original memory of me is still pretty firmly anchored in some minds.

i recently went through an awakening experience that demanded a lot of personal introspection and Fi-values-style following; I guess what many people don't see is how painful and difficult it was because I had no real sense of Fi going into things and had to earn and learn every ounce of it I expressed; it was far easier to decide what I should "rationally be" rather than sensing my own inner patterns.

I used to care what people thought about it; now I don't as much since I know who and what I am, even if it does not fall neatly into some MBTI box. Once identity moves inside rather than being externally located, that sort of stuff stops mattering so much.

Note: This is purely a forum thing, this perception of me as INFP. Anyone I've known in real-life for some time doesn't even consider it... especially the F people.

 

[Snuggletron]

intp.

I know I don't have a strong 'F' but I am in no way an INTP. Arguing about quantum physics for 2 hours on an internet forum doesn't appeal to me. Although, I'm sure that doesn't have to be an intp thing.

 

[d@v3]

ISFJ, although I don't know why. :rolli:

 

[Take Five]

Nobody ever calls me anything else, because I'm the only one I know that is familiar with MBTI. I suspect that some might mistake me as an F or an E

 

[Polaris]

People on the IRC channel at INTP Central gave me INTJ and INFJ a number of times (ick--so many acronyms). I think that what led them to say this is that I have an aura of decisiveness and certainty online that wouldn't necessarily be replicated so well in real life. In real life, I have to deal with the practical side of things, and I flounder like nobody's business when it comes to that. I've also gotten ENFJ, which, as the most introverted person I know (how could it be otherwise?), really astonishes me. More recently and most stunning of all, ISFP was suggested for me. How someone with only the faintest use of extroverted sensing could belong to that type is a question I'll leave to tomorrow's great thinkers.