You may not know enough of them to have given them a fair evaluation as a general type yet. It's easy to meet a few people of another type and decide that you aren't like them if they give you bad vibes; INFP is just a very polarized type that tends to be either very awesome or very irritating, imnsho.
I've given plenty of advice to INFPs on here and I've talked to a lot of them personally. IRL I've met some INFPs are we are pretty similar, but how they approach things just seems to be different, like how to solve a problem.
This is one thing that gets me about this though, the people that I give advice to seem to like it because I keep it grounded in reality, I don't jump to conclusions or anything like that, and I'm just fundamentally a lot more realistic than almost every INFP I've met. I think it would be a terrible thing to not have this sense of realism and concreteness when dealing with the world, the thought just honestly doesn't occur to me to deal with the world in any other way. I don't read hidden meanings out of things unless they catch my interest, not everything has some deep meaning in my eyes. If things add up in my head that they might have a deeper meaning, then yeah I'll think about what it is. But otherwise no not really. The INFPs I've talked to, when they are spilling their minds on me have all of these hidden meanings attached to things, and I'm thinking "huh, that's an interesting way to look at it". I'm usually thinking of how things fit into the bigger picture, not what things could possibly mean.
If IXFP could exist I'd honestly wear the tag. I feel like I'm one foot in the door for intuitive and one foot out...
No, that is the opposite of what I was saying. INFPs are waaaay more introspective than ISFPs. Yes ISFP is into spending time alone to reflect sometimes, but it's more just to practice something really enjoyable or play some kind of one-person game or hobby. They don't analyze the implications of their moral positions in the depth and with the kind of holistic intensity that INFPs do. To ISFPs, that guy is kind of a dick, and it doesn't go much deeper than that. If he decides not to be a dick later, then ok, we'll go with it. For now we'll just avoid him.
Ahhh crap. Typo!
When I said...
that in general it seems a lot of SPs are too introspective.
I meant that in general it seems a lot of SPs
aren't too introspective. Or at least not as much as an NP would be.
But to answer what you're saying in this quote, I am sort of on the fence about it. It depends on how much of an offense it is, how intense my judgment on someone is. Usually it is pretty intense and thought out for me. But keep in mind the people that I bother judging have to get under my skin first, people that are mildly annoying don't really phase me or provoke any thoughts besides "damn they're annoying" etc.
So basically I'm either a very grounded, concrete and realistic INFP or a very intellectual and introspective ISFP. I went by functions and how things have been happening to me and came to ISFP as a conclusion.