New INFJ-type person!

Hello and welcome new INFJ-type person.

Welcome to the forums. Hope you have fun here, like I do!

Originally Posted by In_The_Fade

Cool! I'd never met any male INFJs til now. Guess that's what PerC is for though, right? :D

Indeed!

Of course, going by some statistics we INFJ males only make up 0.5% of the human population, so it is not too surprising. Although there are some good arguments that many people who are actually INFJ are mistyped.

Originally Posted by saibot

Indeed!

Of course, going by some statistics we INFJ males only make up 0.5% of the human population, so it is not too surprising. Although there are some good arguments that many people who are actually INFJ are mistyped.

True. I haven't really heard about INFJs being mistyped before? Is there an article on that that I could read? I only know that my mother is one as well because she took the test... I suspect that I wouldn't be able to tell if I did meet another INFJ, we're pretty good at the whole chameleon thing. Kind of a shame though because it makes it hard to find each other.

Originally Posted by In_The_Fade

True. I haven't really heard about INFJs being mistyped before? Is there an article on that that I could read? I only know that my mother is one as well because she took the test... I suspect that I wouldn't be able to tell if I did meet another INFJ, we're pretty good at the whole chameleon thing. Kind of a shame though because it makes it hard to find each other.

Well, I have no specific article at hand at the moment, but because of our talent to camouflage our true selfs and fit in (thanks to Ni-Fe) there are some arguments saying that a few INFJs are mistyped as various other types.

Originally Posted by saibot

Well, I have no specific article at hand at the moment, but because of our talent to camouflage our true selfs and fit in (thanks to Ni-Fe) there are some arguments saying that a few INFJs are mistyped as various other types.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I know that probably only people that know me well would think of me as an 'F', for instance. I'm a Type 5 Enneagram so I think I come off as a 'T' most of the time. Possibly because of that, my closest friends are both NTJs who were surprised to find out how emotional I can be. If you were thinking about how other people see you rather than how you see yourself when you took the MBTI test, I can definitely see an INFJ being mistyped. Have you ever gotten a different result on the MBTI?

Originally Posted by In_The_Fade

Yeah, that sounds about right. I know that probably only people that know me well would think of me as an 'F', for instance. I'm a Type 5 Enneagram so I think I come off as a 'T' most of the time. Possibly because of that, my closest friends are both NTJs who were surprised to find out how emotional I can be. If you were thinking about how other people see you rather than how you see yourself when you took the MBTI test, I can definitely see an INFJ being mistyped. Have you ever gotten a different result on the MBTI?

Indeed. On simple MBTI tests I actually tended to come out as INTJ. However, not when I am doing cognitive function tests, which tend to give me INFJ and I identify with INFJ profiles the strongest.

However, funny thing, I actually have a thread going in the "What's my personality type?" subforum and the idea was brought forth that I might be an ENTP, which totally came out of left field for me. I still have a hard time believing that. You can check it out if you want.

Am I really an INFJ/Type 4 ?

Originally Posted by saibot

Indeed. On simple MBTI tests I actually tended to come out as INTJ. However, not when I am doing cognitive function tests, which tend to give me INFJ and I identify with INFJ profiles the strongest.

However, funny thing, I actually have a thread going in the "What's my personality type?" subforum and the idea was brought forth that I might be an ENTP, which totally came out of left field for me. I still have a hard time believing that. You can check it out if you want.

Am I really an INFJ/Type 4 ?

Thank you for the link, it was really interesting to read the discussions about what your type might be. The infj 'vibe' is an interesting idea too. I don't know many infjs in 'real life' and am pretty oblivious to what my own 'vibe' would be. I'm about to have a look at the 'Many Faces of INFJ' thread now. I think I might be the academic type too. I wonder if there are different 'vibes' for different 'faces'? ...The answer to every question just leads to more questions! :)