#mistyped

me:

1º Tests are intuitive biased so most of ISFJ get INFJ.

2º Descriptions are vague and, to be honest, INFJ and ISFJ descriptions don’t differ that much, so they feel somewhat represented in INFJ’ descriptions and they don’t look further than that

3º People misunderstand being N with being intuitive when literally everybody uses intuition. So (especially introverts) go like “yeah I am a very reflective person, I daydream a lot, I have a lot of imagination... so I may be an N”

4º They learn ISFJ is the 2nd most common type on Earth while INFJ is the 2nd the rarest type ever and they are world-changing and inspiring and I guess once you feel special you don’t want to be pushed out of that 

hey guys. i’m sorry if this totally invalidates the previous posts i have made in this thread, but i believe i was wrong when i considered myself a 3w4. i’ve been away from tumblr for a while. since then i’ve done some reading about enneagram, talked to some people about it, and i’ve since retyped as a 4w3...

i think the main reason i didn’t think 4w3 was my core is my status as a ti-dom in mbti. (how often do you see istp 4s?)  people who know me well think that istp is the best fit for me, and i agree. i do vibe fi because of my fashion and artistic interests, but overall when it comes to processing the world and making arguments, my ti shines through, with a hint of inferior fe.

therefore, i think that my emotions are fairly devalued compared to many 4s because of my emphasis on "thinking.” it was hard for me to realize that i have them, and i have a lot. but now that i know they’re there, and they’re important, i’m kinda ok with them ngl

there’s some things about 3 cores to which i could never relate, but i don’t know if it’s because descriptions of that type tend to be shitty. but here are the three main reasons why i think i’m a 4:

1. i can’t fucking move on from shame. i heard 3s try to ignore it, don’t want to deal with it at all, but i dwell in it constantly, and for years, whenever i’m alone, and sometimes when i’m around people. the shame makes me feel inherently different and even if i’m trying my best to appear “normal,” there is a barrier between the others and me, keeping me a separate entity who sometimes can’t cope

in addition, my main “coping mechanism” for shame is to constantly self deprecate. no need for me to hide those things, i’d rather them be out in the open instead of someone else discovering it without my disclaimers.

2. i tend to identify with my pain. much more than my successes. i can’t separate myself from bad things that happened to me, and bad things that make me, me. like i can’t move on from shame, i can’t move on from trauma in general, it hurts for years, sometimes still as strong as it was in the moment it happened, if not more.

3. i’ve read about the coping mechanisms by enneagram type, and introjection resonates with me the most. i don’t even remember what the one for type 3 was, but it wasn’t as relatable

I'm sure now that my instinctual variant stacking is sx/sp, not sp/sx. The more I read, the more I realized how sx has always been my instinct, regardless of what my ego thought I was. Consciously I'm averse to people's as a collective, and I've always been a hermit. But I *always* reemerge. Even at my most reclusive, I've still always found a way to connect and merge with some special someone even if it was online in the past. I was never without a job or class, even when I could have been, when I was in the throes of extreme paranoia and social anxiety.

Because the alternative was feeling the void inside me get bigger and bigger. I've always felt magnetically, instinctually propelled toward a meaningful other who can also provide a one-on-one connection. The odds of that happening were zero if I kept hidden away. Even though it was unconscious at the time, there was a burning hole in me waiting to get filled and I literally felt incomplete without it. A BEST friend, or the ultimate true lover. The phrase "my other half" comes to mind. Even if I consciously devalued that notion at the time, I was still being driven out of myself toward it, no matter if I believed in it or not. I would keep getting out there until I happened upon someone with whom I could create and sustain that intimacy with.

Being typed as an INFP and then discovering I may be ENFP made me feel like I had to prove people how much I really am extroverted and it was really tiring because I actually am ambivert.

I need people I hate being alone so I knew I wasn’t introvert but I had the feeling I had to prove it to people to, so I forced myself even when I was tired.

Then I discovered ambiverts are real and recognized, and I get why the E/I value was in the middle! I guess I’ll just be myself and leave the other think what they want, I just hope they find me interesting each way.

Female ENTPs in literature, theater, film, etc. are constantly mistyped. I’ll be doing a small series on this phenomenon, with the examples and analyses of 4 commonly mistyped ENTP female characters, as well as a post on why ENTP female characters are so often mistyped. These will all be linked when I have them up, and I’ll put them under a page too. This post is the first of said series. 

Now without further ado,

Angelica Schuyler 

Commonly Mistyped as: ENFJ

Angelica is most widely characterized by her sacrifice of her own feelings for her sister’s, so it makes sense that she’s mistyped as a type with dominant Fe, given that it’s also easy to determine her as both an extroverted type, and an intuitive type. However, what people often look past is all of the rationalization that went into that decision, as well as her complex thinking pattern, and her hunger for intellectual stimulation.

Dominant Ne: When the audience is introduced to Angelica, we see her in her most natural state; without stressors or conflict impacting her thought process. In this natural state, she is, as she puts it, “looking for a mind at work.” She views the revolution as a stimulus for new ideas, and she loves it ( “You want a revolution? I want a revelation”). Angelica’s mind thrives off of new ideas, possibilities, and concepts, which is also why she was initially attracted to Alexander.

Auxiliary Ti: Angelica has her own logic system, and she places it above her Fe. This is exemplified in her independent views on topics, such as the revolution, and her prioritization of knowledge over the way people perceive her (“I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine, so men say that I’m intense or I’m insane”). Satisfied also provides an in-depth look at her thought process, in which her pairing of Ne and Ti led to her quick analysis of her situation, and the realization of her “three fundamental truths.” Also note that the first two of these truths are rooted in fact and her conclusions of logic, while it’s the last that expresses her Fe, thus illustrating the position of her Ti function over her Fe.

Tertiary Fe: Angelica doesn’t turn to her Fe until a situation calls for it. As she’s placed into a position in which her choice of whether or not to pursue a relationship determines the fate of her, her sister, and Hamilton, her Fe becomes more clear. She is fully aware of what society expects from her, she is able to read Hamilton easily, and well, she knows her sister like she knows her own mind (there’s another hint at that auxiliary Ti). Although she typically remains independent from society, her awareness and concern for the people surrounding her in the situation helps to bring her to her decision. Even though her love for her sister was one of the reasons she chose to pass up Alexander, she first saw the decision as the most rational option, as she chose logic over her own feelings, then in addition she chose her sister’s feelings over her own as another attempt to rationalize her choice.

Inferior Si: Angelica’s Si is often smothered by her other functions, but similarly to her Fe, it manifests itself during her time of stress. As she analyzes her situation in Satisfied, Angelica reveals her Si multiple times, first through her detailed recollection of the night. The line, “I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days” aptly sums up the Si trait of recollection, combined with Angelica’s focus on the future as an intuitive. In expansion, Angelica later reveals, “when I fantasize at night, it’s Alexander’s eyes as I romanticize what might have been if I hadn’t sized him up so quickly.” Angelica is shown to experience a nostalgia towards hypothetical situations, as a painful result of her dominant Ne and inferior Si.