Category: not a typing post

Hi. I hope you’ve been doing alright (no migraines) and that you and your family are enjoying the holidays. I liked your answer to the ENTP post awhile back explaining Fi, though I’m not sure I understand completely. You mentioned your Fe sister couldn’t relate and I’m curious if she explained Fe, and if so, could you share?

Doing well, can’t complain.  Hope you and yours are well, also!

I’m not entirely sure what exactly you’re asking re: the crisis post, so I’ll try to cover some bases and hope for the best.

For me, Fi is a judgement function, so the major conflict of my life has been needing to evaluate how I feel about things, but not having (and actively rejecting, to some extent) the organizational skills that would make this possible.  infj-zen does not relate because Fe is an interactive function – she uses feelings to make and understand social exchanges instead of to evaluate her belief structure and make life-altering decisions.  

My understanding of Fe is from having it as a fifth function – I can pick strong Fe off Fe users when they are projecting their feelings, by which, I mean that sometimes it feels like I can chew on the air, the emotion is so thick (kind of like walking through the perfume aisle).

As far as Fe crisis?  I’m not entirely sure what the equivalent is.  Early days trouble (I’m told it clears up young!) is not being aware of when feelings belong to you or someone else, although that is worse for ENFJs than INFJs, who tend to avert this by being more introverted.  Maybe the whole not being able to say no to things?  And embracing Ti logic helps you through this?

I keep wondering about possible Ni crises and HSP – since a lot of INTJs and INFJs appear to meet the criteria for HSP and have fourth function Se, I’d assume that figuring out how to deal with overwhelming sensory information is a way to make Ni function better.

Hey! I sent you an ask about Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low, and I said my bet was ENXP. However, I finally saw an interview of him on his own and he seemed pretty introverted so now I’m conflicted. Anyway, I was wondering if, general, introverts come off introverted in one on one interviews than in group ones? Or do they come off less introverted because there are less people?

The complexities of MBTI group dynamics is a whole ‘nother tumblr.  I think there is no one answer – introverts can seem more or less introverted on their own than in a group, and for so many reasons.  Same with the extraverts.

m0no-tonia hi!
i was just wondering what methods you use to distinguish whether
someone is S or N without, like, knowing them because i struggle a lot
with that

Here’s my completely un-PC answer.  S and N is a dichotomy, so start with basically the stereotype of both (cool kids/jocks vs. nerds, prioritizes appearance even in creepy paparazzi shots vs. only prioritizes appearance on red carpet, etc.) and build type patterns based on that.  Where it doesn’t work, because the typee appears to be between types, just make note until you can find other people who are similar but more clearly one type.  You’ll be wrong a lot, but eventually your patterns will get better.

Usually I find that families or small group casts are good for drawing distinctions – there is rarely two of a type in either unit, so if you find two similar cast-mates or family members, one is most likely one type and one is most likely another.

Are you sure Josh Hutcherson isn’t an ENFJ?

I had so many requests for him, guessing either ENFP or ENFJ.

EN definitely.

ENFP was a no, because he has J-type body language (kind of reminds me of Dan Radcliffe, who I just switched to ENTJ along with Danny Pudi and Seth Meyers – I’m not used to ENTJs being that… manic? so they were all sitting in the ENTP tag until I caught an episode of the Late Late Show and Seth kept reminding me of Letterman or Ben Stiller, only higher energy.)

ENFJ was a no, because he doesn’t really seem to have Fe.

if all internet mbti types test suck how do i know what type am i

Anonymous said to mbti-sorted:
is the site celebritytypes trustworthy/accurate?

To both of these, my answer is that because MBTI is an anecdotal/observational thing and there is no One True MBTI site, including mine – take in as much theory as you can (and as many different perspectives) and make up your own mind about the content out there and how it relates to you.  All of us are in the same boat on that one. 

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