Personality Types And Snotty Sneezes

Yesterday I checked my Myers Briggs Type Indicator (Click the link if you have no idea what I am talking about) after a really long time. The last time I checked it, I made my ex check his too. I don’t remember either of the results. But maybe if I had read up more on his type, I would not have been so blind to the LED Signboard above his head that screamed NARCISSIST and gotten the hell outta there earlier.

The first time I checked my type, after being introduced to MBTI by my aunt (who by the way, is an INTJ, like Sherlock Holmes and Dr.House) I got ISFP i.e. Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perception. I guess it felt pretty accurate at the time. Except that I was never a painter or a designer of any sort. At first, I didn’t like the fact that your type could change over time, I needed something more stable than that to describe myself. I am not, as you can see, a fan of abstract concepts. Once, I even got Extraversion on my result. It was hard to start trusting this test again after that.

Yesterday, I got INFJ (Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, and Judging) and there I sat, less than 24 hours before a psychology exam, looking at Tumblr posts about what kind of sneeze each MBTI type is. I am not a procrastinator, I’m just really bad at prioritising. I enjoy studying immensely, once I actually get around to starting.

So, when the first result I get upon googling this newfound type of mine, is “3 Reasons Why INFJ Empaths Fall Prey to Narcissists”, I instantaneously know that this time, there is no doubt about the type of sneeze I am. I could go on and on about how the more I read about this type, the more I could relate, the most accurate one being, things the MBTI Types Hate: INFJ – being misunderstood, pretentious people, unfairness. But wait till you hear the population distribution.

1.5%. INFJs constitute 1.5% of the total population. It is the rarest type right after ENTJ which is 1.8%. So I guess, I’m the kind of sneeze that ends up leaving snot on everything in its wake.

But what really left me shook about this whole thing, was when I came across a phenomenon called INFJ Door Slam, where an IFNJ shuts someone out or cuts off all contact with them and I cannot possibly express how it feels to have a term for something you’ve been to people since you were in the sixth grade. If I know you and I’ve done this to you, which I have probably have at some point, I’m sorry that I don’t feel sorry about it. As Introvertdear.com describes it, “I don’t hate you, I nothing you.”

Ï don’t really know the point I’m getting at but there’s just something that excites me about the idea of well-defined categories that people can be neatly put into. Maybe that’s just the Virgo in me.