I find it freeing to acknowledge that Im something specific, it makes me appreciate the times when Im not introverting. But if one says "Im introverted accept me as that" then yes I would say they have a problem. Typology should not be a comfort blanket but recognition of your faults and developement of those sides that you lack.
I dunno, entropie -- I found it a relief to realize I wasn't supposed to be an extrovert, and so I could just set aside their judgments of me for being different than them. In fact, that was the role MBTI in general played in my life: For many years I felt different and an "anomaly" in my world, then I found out that I was just normal but different and that who I was was "okay."
Some people will use that an excuse for something, but it can also be a great encouragement.
Ok I hear ya. I havent thought that one through
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Sorry Morgan for being picky the moment I read your post someone asked me something real stupid at work, so the anger transfer done by me wasnt necessary.
I have this long talks with my infj in which I try to really understand at least something. She's totally anti any labeling system. So the first time I for example started to present her the mbti system she laied out all the psychologial diseases from which people could suffer who label themselves in some unusual way. The thing but is, she on the other hand is totally into astrology and on the same issue always justifies things she did bad at, with being diagnosed to have ADS. So I think too there's a fine line between a real quest for the self or an excuse for ones own problems. I came here due to no other reason than a self quest and knowing today that I am quite assertive and only hear what I want to hear, I can safely say now at least in the understanding of where my mind gathers its information from, I am mbti extroverted.
The real problem is and maybe thats a thing many entps face: you never belong. Today this has become different but back then, I wasnt accepted in the nerds club, cause I am only half nerd and I wasnt accepted in the cool boys club cause I was half nerd. Everyone wants to belong and an E-type maybe moreso, so I always took my own way and was though I am a pussy accepted partly in the tough boys club and got invited to some tabletop game evenings to the nerds tho I couldnt take their stuff serious all the time. On top of all that tho, the whole world would type me to be very socially introvert. I cant really talk the usual talk with people and I am always behaving dumb in public or different what at least makes people laugh but doesnt really make them take me serious.
Then mbti came along and typed me extraverted. Ok obviously there's a difference in the meaning of the words dependant on the context but I think somewhere on the way I lost my belief in words and just said I am what I am now and no definition anywhere on the world I will ever listen to and let me brainwash again. I'll only decide for myself now whats right and wrong and not take so much regard on what others likie me to be. Somewhere then I threw definitions like E/I for myself over board.
But without them, I'ld have probably not gotten there, so it wouldnt be clever to now dismiss them totally.
The thing is, tho its very different today, I still do not belong. I've excelled in hobbies involving things and communities of people of machine builders and hobby spacepilots, but in realitry I am still only wearing my mask and doing my job. The mask I own totally sucks, it leaks at a billion points and since I am the worst liar who ever existed on the world, people see just right through me. So I cant hide from constantly doing nerdy things in public and stepping in one blamage after the other. The only thing that keeps me save is competence and my knowledge and a positive attitude towards life that seems to look to others, he's happy his own way.
Nevertheless I'ld wish for much much more closeness with people. I wish I would have a best friend that is a thing I never had. People were always more of just friends but really close friends I never had. Most probably because I never let them that close aswell, cause I thought they will not understand how I see the world either way. And that's why I still until today cant safely and with a free conciencse tell you if I am now I or E. Socially introverted 100% for sure, Assertive and stubborn dependant on external stimuli for sure too. I lived for 2 years in my parents houses basement and only had the computer to entertain me at age 16 so thats no real E aswell.
Well that's my load. Maybe it gives other people new ideas on their quests.