[ISFP] ISFP Subtypes

[Thalassa]

Since Lord Elfboy decided to do ENxP subtypes and Raptor Wizard did ISTP subtypes, I am going to to ISFP subtypes.

Sofia Coppola subtype - Artsy, subdued, works in some kind of sensory aesthetic profession like film, painting, music, fashion, photography or decorating. When you say you're an ISFP, most people agree with you, because you fit their image of what an ISFP should be.

James Dean subtype - sensitive but rebellious, strong and silent and slightly ISTP-ish, but showing a lot more Fi and softness. Quiet but sexy, you can get mistyped as INFP as well ISTP, because really, though you may be cool on the outside, no one really knows a damn thing about you and just keeps guessing. You like it like that.

Couch potato subtype - ISFPs read descriptions of themselves on-line and get offended because it seems like it was based on people like you. You're simple, enjoy watching hours of television, have very little ambition, but are basically a nice and unobtrusive person. You're probably not even interested enough in type theory to be on this forum.

Eminem subtype - people tell you you're not an ISFP because you're too tough or opinionated, but it's clear that when you aren't expressing yourself through performing or writing that you're actually a pretty introverted and sensitive Fi dom. People get way too caught up in the ESTP or ENFP persona you're capable of presenting to the world, and mistake the fierceness of your Fi convictions for you being either an xSTP or an extrovert with "a lot of Te development." You're probably just a counterphobic E6, and while everyone knows you write gangsta rap about locking your girlfriend in the trunk, they seem blissfully unaware of all those sappy songs that make people cry that are based on your daughter, your personal struggles with your drug addiction, and how you guys are beautiful, no matter what any one says, bro.

 

[KDude]

I like these. If I'm ISFP like some still think I am, then I'm the James Dean subtype. Not that I'm super cool, but I identify with his character in Rebel without a cause. He's not cool. He's frustrated. And he's friendly to people worse off than him (like Plato). I like to think I do that.

 

[wolfy]

What's on the telly?

 

[Thalassa]

What's on the telly?

I'm not sure, I'm too busy just sitting around looking at things on the Internet.

 

[wolfy]

I'm not sure, I'm too busy just sitting around looking at things on the Internet.

True, me too.

 

[KDude]

So marm, are you sofia coppola or enimem?

 

[Thalassa]

So marm, are you sofia coppola or enimem?

Realistically a little of both. IRL I'm pretty quiet and I cook for people, but also I come across in writing or performing with a louder persona at times. I do identify with Eminem's 6-ish ness and I argue continually for him actually being an Fi dom, because people seem to want to type him as ExTP or ISTP because of his stage persona, and I guess some of his more notorious raps.

 

[KDude]

Realistically a little of both. IRL I'm pretty quiet and I cook for people, but also I come across in writing or performing with a louder persona at times. I do identify with Eminem's 6-ish ness and I argue continually for him actually being an Fi dom, because people seem to want to type him as ExTP or ISTP because of his stage persona, and I guess some of his more notorious raps.

I don't know much about him actually. Your guess is as good as mine. Kind of confuses me, like James Dean (and like you said, people type him both INFP and ISTP).

 

[gromit]

I don't think I'm any of thems. I'm doubting my isfp these days anyway.

 

[wolfy]

I don't think I'm any of thems. I'm doubting my isfp these days anyway.

If you were any I would say Coppola. What new type do you have in mind?

 

[gromit]

If you were any I would say Coppola. What new type do you have in mind?

Not sure. Some FP. Just especially going back to school now I think I maybe do use N a lot more than I had thought. That is how I learn best by relating everything together, to what I know from real life and to other concepts in the text or in lecture or in lab. But then again the S/N has always seemed so vague to me, doesn't any grown adult use both anyway?

 

[wolfy]

Not sure. Some FP. Just especially going back to school now I think I maybe do use N a lot more than I had thought. That is how I learn best by relating everything together, to what I know from real life and to other concepts in the text or in lecture or in lab. But then again the S/N has always seemed so vague to me, doesn't any grown adult use both anyway?

Yeah, although use is a tricky word. Type is just an abstraction, not a real thing.

 

[Jeffster]

I'm somewhere in between the wolfy subtype and the Quinlan subtype.

 

[KDude]

Not sure. Some FP. Just especially going back to school now I think I maybe do use N a lot more than I had thought. That is how I learn best by relating everything together, to what I know from real life and to other concepts in the text or in lecture or in lab. But then again the S/N has always seemed so vague to me, doesn't any grown adult use both anyway?

I don't think I use a lot. I think I borrow ideas from intuitives. I don't think I'm producing a lot though. I'm stuck in ruts a lot. I think Ne dominants are known for brainstorming and Ni have a stronger sense of where they're going/what they want from life or their projects (from what I can tell..).

 

[Thalassa]

I don't think I use a lot. I think I borrow ideas from intuitives. I don't think I'm producing a lot though. I'm stuck in ruts a lot. I think Ne dominants are known for brainstorming and Ni have a stronger sense of where they're going/what they want from life or their projects (from what I can tell..).

This actually makes sense to me. A lot of times if someone puts me on the spot to come up with something I'm just like "I don't know" and my ESFJ friend I swear has more Ne than I do, and when she gets into Ne mode she can really come up with all of these other options, it's fun for her.

HOWEVER, I believe I do have Ni in the tertiary because I "just know" things a lot, and this is one of the primary reasons I typed as INFJ way back when I first took Keys2Cognition because I overestimated Ni as being my strongest function, because I know this to be such an integral part of my personality, that I'll "just know things" or have these big cathartic moments.

I also tend to look for the undercurrent of what is similar. Say I collect a bunch of facts and information about cultures. I will look at what is "underneath" those facts. What is an underlying unifying element of those cultural constructs. That is Ni working with Se, that is not Ne.

I also tend to ask why people are doing things, and someone mentioned to me before that Ni asks why and Ne asks what if.

I also have life-long personal constructs I've built on, which is some kind of Pi function, like for example I'll collect all the information I can about a certain country or topic, and may eventually formulate it YEARS down the road into a creative project or some real life goal. That is Ni operating somewhere in my function order.

I tend to get annoyed when people can't see "what's underneath" things or they don't ask why, and that's more of an Ni trait. I think if I had Ne dom/aux I'd be showing up people constantly with my random what if ideas.

 

[RaptorWizard]

I voted couch potato.

 

[Thalassa]

I voted couch potato.

I thought you were an ISTP?

 

[RaptorWizard]

I thought you were an ISTP?

I am. I can still vote though lol.

 

[wolfy]

I'm somewhere in between the wolfy subtype and the Quinlan subtype.

Quin seems Coppola/Dean with a slice of eminem. You seem more Eminem, couch potato with some Dean to me.

I voted couch potato.

Aren't we all.

 

[KDude]

Just call the Couch Potato "The Dude".