melpomene
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Hello! I'm new here, but I've lurked for ages. I have been questioning my type, and since this forum is always where I go to research typings, I was hoping for some help!
I have been typed INFJ for years, but have taken this cognitive function test lately and well, my results are...unusual. I'm a woman, in case that helps.
Cognitive Process Level of Development (Preference, Skill and Frequency of Use)
extraverted Sensing (Se) (-0.6)
unused
introverted Sensing (Si) ********************** (22)
limited use
extraverted Intuiting (Ne) ************************************** (38.2)
excellent use
introverted Intuiting (Ni) ********************************************** (46.6)
excellent use
extraverted Thinking (Te) ************************************** (38.1)
excellent use
introverted Thinking (Ti) ******************** (20.9)
limited use
extraverted Feeling (Fe) ************************************* (37.5)
excellent use
introverted Feeling (Fi) ************************************* (37.7)
excellent use
So, as you can see, I'm obviously a NI dom, but I don't use Ti. I really enjoy Te. I use Fi and Fe evenly, and all my sensory stuff is crap. I figure my Ne is so high because my husband is an INFP and literally all his friends are either Ne dom or aux, so I've learned to roll with it (in the past, I'd get steamrolled in conversations with those guys).
On second thought, I probably should tell a little about myself, heh. (I'm not great at this!) I'm 27, married, and kind of a bleeding romantic. I'm also a prototypical social justice warrior type, and I've been going to school for social work, but I just recently changed my major to counseling psychology because I couldn't stand all the government interference in the social work field. I love sociology, politics, anthropology, and all the other -ologies I can't think of right now. I enjoy volunteer work and getting people to smile by cooking them food and random compliments and remembering things they like and need so I can surprise them later. I am a democratic socialist and just the concepts of greed and working for a profit (not the "trying to live" profit, the profit for profit's sake kind) abhor me. I think we should, as a community, sacrifice everything we can to share, get along, and make sure everyone has the basics to thrive in life. I also enjoy gardening, but I get really upset that I have to kill caterpillars in order to have my plants survive.
You'd think with these above interests that I'd like people, but honestly I'm not close to them. I tend to really enjoy the concept of people at arm's length, and want people to understand what kind of person I am (I have to say my biggest pet peeve is being misrepresented) but I don't really want to let them too close - probably because I don't handle criticism and rejection well, also combined with the fact that I read people really well and I just know how shallow, uncaring and fickle so many people are. I see myself as the kind of person that helps people and then disappears into the night, or something cheesy like that. However, I also hate snobs and if someone WANTED to ever get close to me, I'd definately welcome it.
I'd say people's biggest criticisms of me are that I probably let people stomp all over me, that I give too much to others, while also that I seem aloof, overly logical and aggressive and uninterested in people. (Yes, I've heard these both from the same people, to which I'm like "What?") I don't keep in contact with friends very well at all, and social stuff is my worst weakness, as I tend to be a brooder and killjoy. Manners are really important to me, and I hate it when people offend others - I can safely say I'm pretty damn politically correct and nothing bothers me more than hurting another person. This doesn't keep me from openly debating every issue ever though and speaking up when I smell injustice....fighting social injustice is everything to me. I do everything I can to make myself available to friends that need me though, and I would have to say my biggest strengths are my loyalty and resilience, as when I want something, I don't give up. I also get really obsessed with learning, and will literally pour over the same topic for months to absorb every piece of wisdom on it, ever, whether I agree with it or not, and no matter how dumb it might be. I have to always know both sides of an issue. I don't really like relying on my own internal sense of logic because cognitive bias is such a really powerful thing, so I trust extensive research to help me form viewpoints.
As for presentation wise, I do really come off either quiet, kinda blunt, awkward, aloof and overly logical or way too friendly, upbeat and childlike. I'm basically never in the middle, even without a change in moods (I'm usually really stable mood wise - unless something external happens, I'm usually always in the same calm, middle of the road mood. Not happy, not sad, but introspective, spacey, brooding and content...). It's...odd.
Anyway, that's enough about me, I think? I really am terrible at this.
I have been typed INFJ for years, but have taken this cognitive function test lately and well, my results are...unusual. I'm a woman, in case that helps.
Cognitive Process Level of Development (Preference, Skill and Frequency of Use)
extraverted Sensing (Se) (-0.6)
unused
introverted Sensing (Si) ********************** (22)
limited use
extraverted Intuiting (Ne) ************************************** (38.2)
excellent use
introverted Intuiting (Ni) ********************************************** (46.6)
excellent use
extraverted Thinking (Te) ************************************** (38.1)
excellent use
introverted Thinking (Ti) ******************** (20.9)
limited use
extraverted Feeling (Fe) ************************************* (37.5)
excellent use
introverted Feeling (Fi) ************************************* (37.7)
excellent use
So, as you can see, I'm obviously a NI dom, but I don't use Ti. I really enjoy Te. I use Fi and Fe evenly, and all my sensory stuff is crap. I figure my Ne is so high because my husband is an INFP and literally all his friends are either Ne dom or aux, so I've learned to roll with it (in the past, I'd get steamrolled in conversations with those guys).
On second thought, I probably should tell a little about myself, heh. (I'm not great at this!) I'm 27, married, and kind of a bleeding romantic. I'm also a prototypical social justice warrior type, and I've been going to school for social work, but I just recently changed my major to counseling psychology because I couldn't stand all the government interference in the social work field. I love sociology, politics, anthropology, and all the other -ologies I can't think of right now. I enjoy volunteer work and getting people to smile by cooking them food and random compliments and remembering things they like and need so I can surprise them later. I am a democratic socialist and just the concepts of greed and working for a profit (not the "trying to live" profit, the profit for profit's sake kind) abhor me. I think we should, as a community, sacrifice everything we can to share, get along, and make sure everyone has the basics to thrive in life. I also enjoy gardening, but I get really upset that I have to kill caterpillars in order to have my plants survive.
You'd think with these above interests that I'd like people, but honestly I'm not close to them. I tend to really enjoy the concept of people at arm's length, and want people to understand what kind of person I am (I have to say my biggest pet peeve is being misrepresented) but I don't really want to let them too close - probably because I don't handle criticism and rejection well, also combined with the fact that I read people really well and I just know how shallow, uncaring and fickle so many people are. I see myself as the kind of person that helps people and then disappears into the night, or something cheesy like that. However, I also hate snobs and if someone WANTED to ever get close to me, I'd definately welcome it.
I'd say people's biggest criticisms of me are that I probably let people stomp all over me, that I give too much to others, while also that I seem aloof, overly logical and aggressive and uninterested in people. (Yes, I've heard these both from the same people, to which I'm like "What?") I don't keep in contact with friends very well at all, and social stuff is my worst weakness, as I tend to be a brooder and killjoy. Manners are really important to me, and I hate it when people offend others - I can safely say I'm pretty damn politically correct and nothing bothers me more than hurting another person. This doesn't keep me from openly debating every issue ever though and speaking up when I smell injustice....fighting social injustice is everything to me. I do everything I can to make myself available to friends that need me though, and I would have to say my biggest strengths are my loyalty and resilience, as when I want something, I don't give up. I also get really obsessed with learning, and will literally pour over the same topic for months to absorb every piece of wisdom on it, ever, whether I agree with it or not, and no matter how dumb it might be. I have to always know both sides of an issue. I don't really like relying on my own internal sense of logic because cognitive bias is such a really powerful thing, so I trust extensive research to help me form viewpoints.
As for presentation wise, I do really come off either quiet, kinda blunt, awkward, aloof and overly logical or way too friendly, upbeat and childlike. I'm basically never in the middle, even without a change in moods (I'm usually really stable mood wise - unless something external happens, I'm usually always in the same calm, middle of the road mood. Not happy, not sad, but introspective, spacey, brooding and content...). It's...odd.
Anyway, that's enough about me, I think? I really am terrible at this.
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