[Seamaid]

My boyfriend doesn't pay much attention to it. Considers it amusing and indulges me when I talk about Fi and Ti and Se. How did you guys get into it? Also, do you think we are in the minority, knowing what MBTI is? Have you ever run into someone who knew their MBTI and could talk about it with you?

[Darner]

Knowledge about MBTI is very rare indeed. I also discovered it's really difficult to make somebody enthusiastic about it - either they get interested in it by themselves or they will just say "yes, the results are correct" and stop thinking about it. I first found a test on another forum years ago but didn't know enough English to understand the concepts so I let it rest. Just two years ago I really figured out what introversion means (of the four letters, it explained most of my personality), at the same time I met a guy who was quite into MBTI so I gave it another shot and finally got drawn into it.

[Kadjunga]

Most people view types and type theories to be 'boxing'. Generalizing and compartmentalizing people into boxes is not how the way works. Most people don't give a rats arse about the application of such theories (me included) but it is a good way of figuring out who YOU are and why you are how you are and it helps you grow and realize things about yourself that you wouldn't have known before or would of taken really hard and painful lessons to learn. This board and multiple resource sites helped me get over a 'quarter life crisis' and the like minded and good people here keep providing new learning experiences into who i am.

Off tangent i know :p

[Seamaid]

Yes, it's funny when some people are super-resistant to being 'categorized', because they just don't like being categorized. I knew a guy who really tried to argue that he could be both introvert and extrovert (and therefore MBTI had little validity), and that you could never peg him as one or the other... but it was so obvious he was an extrovert. (And looking back, he happened to be a textbook ENFP - talented at both art and science, trivia enthusiast, etc. haha). He had a hundred people drop by on his birthday party... XD

[Abuwabu]

I got into it not so long ago (a couple of years maybe) while working out a career change. Then it lead me to understand why my family were all f***ing nuts (I was brought up in a household of Fs), and it became a useful tool in my arsenal of life.

[Erbse]

Originally got into it due to one of my ex's who had me take a test - didn't really bother with more than that at that time. While she woulda labeled me ISTJ I felt ISTP to be more accurate but typically always borderlined on the J/P thingy, mainly due to some misconceptions in regards to some questions.

Eventually I got back into it after my life crashed, burned and drowned like 2 years ago but only stuck to MBTI Types and Tests and such, without any further information regarding functions and pre-set function orders. Much like Kadjunga it was due to wanting to find out who I was in the first place, in the process of self discovery I luckily also stumbled across information in regards to how others work and why most of them are fucking retards

[IThinkTooMuch]

I took a test a while back, back when I wasn't interested, so i dismissed it. more recently, I took it again, and it gave me INTJ, as i looked around, I found that i wasn't much of a J, so i figured i was INTP. by that point, I was pretty much positive on the I_TP, but after more looking around, I think that I am "naturally" an S, but often present as an INTP.

I stopped being skeptical once i started reading the descriptions that were of my type. instead of searching around, like i should have done before, I think that I just decided that the test was wrong. but once I found my type, I wasn't really skeptical. I do think, however, that the MBTI types act more as a reference than a guideline.

[madhatter]

I think I first encountered MBTI years ago on a different forum that had nothing to do with MBTI; it was devoted to the discussion of fantasy book series. One of the members had made a test of "Which Character are You...?" And each character was an MBTI type. I scored ISTP and INTP. I wasn't sceptical...I just didn't think much of it. Took a few more tests here and there and consistently tested ISTP and INTP.

Then about two years ago, my aunt had Type Talk on her coffee table, and I actually started reading about the theory behind the letters and it fascinated me. I bought my own copy on Amazon.com that night. Then I couldn't get enough of it. Started buying all the books I could find on the subject (though ironically I still haven't read Jung!). I bought Personality Type by Lenore Thomson, and learned about cognitive functions, and it was then that I decided between ISTP and INTP. Lurked on this forum for a while, until one day I had something to say. And here I am.

Once I discovered cognitive functions and this forum, it was then that I realized that this theory doesn't have to box you in. You can share a MBTI type with someone and still be completely different people. And you can be completely opposite type with another and have a connection. I (discreetly) type everyone I meet now haha. Helps me understand where people are coming from.

[alionsroar]

I found it in a magazine. It was a liftout about 'lifetypes'. It didn't seem totally useful/accurate (it was based on behavioural descriptions) so I dismissed it. However I periodically kept coming back to it, such as when I was looking at the humanmetrics site as part of a class. Then when I was looking about suitable careers, I really wanted to know my type. Quizzes told me I was INFP but I didn't like the jobs for that. So I was looking at the personalitypage and typelogic sites, found out about functions and eventually came here. The end.

[Indigo Aria]

I took a test on facebook. I tested as an INFP, and it seemed right and was very interesting, and I was hoping it would lead me to some insight as to what I was doing fucking wrong with my life. I was going through a phase where I took every stupid quiz I found on facebook (i.e. what brand of cornmeal describes you?), and this seemed like it might actually have something behind it, unlike the one that told me that if I was a candle I'd burn green...

Of the few people I've met that actually have heard of MBTI, they only know their 4 letters and don't know anything further of the system.