Maybe this has already been asked you, but how do you figure out if someone is an N-type or an S-type? Sorry if you already answered this.

It’s the weird shock of having someone speak to me in my own language instead of having to try and speak theirs.

is it true that all infps are gay

Three Community-based gifs in your post history, including Abed finger-guns? And yet you haven’t typed Danny Pudi? Ridiculous! (Sorry, I’m impatient — please disregard me, and carry on doing your thing. :) I just couldn’t resist commenting when I saw those gifs.) Also, is there a way to make the date show on your posts? It would make it easier for me to keep track of whether I’m caught up! (Accommodate me, darnit!) #rudemoodday

Hi! I’m and infp and I hace a crush un this guy who seems to be very responsible, athletic, reserved, intelligent although he seems a little bit mean on the outside, he is respectful. What do you think it is his mbti? Do you think we can get along?

Why do you have dianna agron as an ESFJ? She’s usually typed as INFJ or INFP. Although you might be right because I’ve seen a lot of interviews of her and she’s always so bubbly and energetic and sometimes she doesn’t shut up.

…aaaand you answered yourself.

“Well… that went to a weird place.” Just being true to my N. Just like the Nick Offerman gif … “I regret nothing. The end.” ;D

“#is it furniture?” it could be but i really hope not.

Do you buy into certain types being compatible? If so, what types? Because, I’ve heard many people say that compatibility does not correlate with MBTI, and I’ve seen many say it does. I have also seen disagreement over what type is compatible with what type (for example, I’ve seen INFPs said to be compatible with ENTJs, ENFJs, ESTJs, and ESTPs).

Ish. I think the relationship compatibility on most MBTI profiles is really static and doesn’t necessarily reflect the relationships I see when I’m typing. I do like to look at couples, and married couples (if the SO also has an internet presence) – it’s sort of a check that I’m on the right track or way off. I find that certain things crop up over and over again, but it’s not the Advisor Relationship for everyone, for example. I think it depends more on what the type, and more specifically what you are looking for in a partner at that specific time. Some people want Grand Romance, a Wild Affair, or Partners in Crime, all of which tend to be pretty epic. Some people are over it and want Buddies, or someone to talk to but mostly leave them alone to do their own thing. In the middle there’s also just a kind of Rounds Me Out, opposites attract kind of thing, where all or most of the functions get covered between you. I think there are a bunch of… environmental? elements influencing your choices like, for example, gender politics – men and women of the same type are not always looking for the same things in a partner (although often they are!).

I also find it interesting, coming from a background of typing fictional characters, how there’s a lot of the same relationships that play out over and over again, not all of which seem to work in the real world as stable, happy, long-lasting marriages.

It’s an interesting subject (as is MBTI in families!), but I don’t have the resources to really look in to it.

hey so i was just wondering why you chose ESTP for louis from one direction and not ENTP. to me he seems to prefer unconventionality over the social norms in the way that he tells jokes and based on what he’s said about life in general, i would think N more than S.

A preference for being unconventional strikes me as a P trait, more than an N or an S one. I have never seen any of the big picture analytical thinking that I associate with ENTs, nor the accompanying sense of irony.

Hi, I was just curious to know your opinion about something. Do you think visual artists tend to be a group comprised more of S types or N types? I ask because as an N type I keep wondering if it’s the ‘focus on the details/notice the details’ instinct that makes some techniques easy for others and a struggle for me. thanks.

I think it’s probably pretty even, with maybe some variations for geography (different people get drawn to different areas) and what you’re thinking of when you say “visual art.” That is a huge umbrella of things!

If I had to guess, I’d say there’s way more P types than Js, though.

(1) To the anon questioning whether they’re an INFP: I’m an INTP who mistyped as an INFP for years, mostly because I didn’t have a strong understanding of the cognitive functions. Something a lot of people don’t realize is that strong Fi and inferior Fe can look a lot alike, just for very different reasons, and having inferior Fe means IXTPs have very little control over it, which can make them see themselves as emotional people and cause them to believe they’re feelers.

(2) Something you might want to ask yourself is what your relationship
with your emotions is like. Do you internalize your emotions and have a
tendency to wallow in them even if they are unpleasant, because you
crave authentic feeling? Or do you often feel pretty unemotional, but
will unexpectedly have bursts of strong emotions that feel out of
control, which makes you very uncomfortable and you want to detach from
those feelings ASAP?

For reference.

The anon in question de-anoned so I answered her privately – thanks for this, though, you bring up some good points.