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I am unwell. Really, not good at all, and in my strange, spaced-out place, I did this meme that reckons my personality type is INFP

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)

Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive.

Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men

You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

Which seems odd, because INFP apparently = Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving; which isn't what I'd have thought I was at all - I think I'm quite a peppy, extroverted type of bod - and I put that down to this being a *MEME* and not a lengthy and extensive, bona-fide personality test. ::G:: But when I did a bit of research, it's aparently used in career targetting and top-of-the-list career for an INFP is writer, and I am a writer.

Not sure, exactly, what I'm supposed to make of that but it passed an interesting 20 minutes, took my mind off my suffering and I feel I learned something. (o:

A cunning sort of cove, this 'meme'. ::nods sagely::

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I thought it was way off base -- I have tested as INFJ with a secondary tendency towards ENFJ consistently for the last 20 years. This had me as an ISTP -- no way!

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::nods a lot to imply understanding whilst actually being rather lost::

Hey, it's a meme... I don't suppose we're meant to take it seriously or anything. ::G:: It got my job, but that's about it. (o:

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Now *I'm* confused -- I thought you were mocking its inaccuracy and I was agreeing. It was a super-brief version of the Myers-Briggs personality type test -- I've taken it for various reasons ranging from job counseling to people goofing around at a party over the years -- and this got 3 out of 4 wrong for results that I have gotten consistently over a 20 year period -- the one that it got right is the only one that has varied in my testing. Not that most online quizzes give a true and accurate result, but most of them are asking which Doctor I am or something. ;-)

I honestly don't know if it's inaccurate or not. I don't think of myself as an introvert, but, maybe I am...? LOL! How would I know?

I'd never heard of the Myers-Briggs test till I did a bit of googling around 'INFP', which was fun and interesting, but I wouldn't expect a fun-meme to be very accurate in these matters.

As I said to someone else, they also reckon I have a violet aura, an orange soul and really good Karma, which is, like, really groovy, but not that illuminating (man). ::giggle::

Actually, after I responded, I realized that my husband, who's English, had never heard of it either until he took one when he was seeing a career counselor over here -- so maybe it's much more of an American thing.

It just made me laugh because the type it was claiming for me is *sooo* completely not me in any way shape or form, and since I do know a fair bit about these categories . . . . Whereas it is clear that I *am* the Ninth Doctor, Dante (in the "what famous author are you?" quiz) and purple ("what color are you?").

The introversion/extroversion thing is actually interesting -- the principle behind it isn't whether you like people or are social, but whether you gain energy around people or need to be alone to recharge. So, although I love to socialize, I get worn out being around friends all the time and need alone time -- so on the Myers/Briggs test I score an I. (Although that's the one that's always most borderline.) I probably should have thought about that before I got married and decided to live in a tiny Manhattan apartment. ;-)

Feel better soon sweetie ::pets::

::sends cluster-bomb warm milk and cookies::

LOL!! I am - right this bloomin minute - drinking Horlicks and eating choccie digestives. Your cluster bombs are always welcome in my world, hon. ::simpers lovingly::

Unwell is so bad. Hope you're feeling much better soon!

The short little bloggy test tells me INFP, too. (Which is true, I guess. A few years back I took that huge horribly difficult famous personality test I can't remember the name of and I was so INFP it was pathetic, considering the way they analyzed -- in unfortunate and unflattering detail -- the most introverted and irrational aspects of my character. Sods. Not to mention I can't find my intuition even if I trip over it )

Feel better soon. There are a lot of words out there that need you...

"There are a lot of words out there that need you..."
Aw. Shucks...
I did try to write words this afternoon, but it was a non-starter so I fell asleep in front of True Grit instead.

I've got that 'thing' that's going around. I believe the England cricket team have it too. I have a good class of germ. ::sips warm milky drink. Feels sorry for self::

Thanks for your kind words, baby. ::snifs into tissue::

I just took the real full version of this at work (120 questions) and came out the same as you INFP. So, I just took the measly 12 questions version and...I came out INFP again.

Heh heh heh! Well then, it MUST be true!!!

That meme doesn't have enough questions to be very useful. If you feel like doing a test that gives a better result, there's one here (which makes you register, but is free) and another here. More info here.

I've had to do lots of those sorts of tests as part of interview processes for various corporate jobs. The descriptions always seem quite accurate for me, but my sister, who's a psychiatrist, assures me that humans aren't so simple they can be so easily categorised!

Well, you know, it's a meme - t'ain't supposed to be taken seriously or anything. ::G::

My aura is violet, btw, and the colour of my soul orange, which strikes me as a bit of a clash. Very 1968. ::giggle::

Thanks for the tests, though spaced out on cold meds as I am, I'm scared of what they might tell me.

:) I always tend to skip these 'personality' memes, since they always come down to the same thing: I Am Nothing Like the Person I Think I Am...

It's a meme, fo fun... I'm not about to base my life path on what they tell me.

It was interesting that it caught my job though, 'cause most writers in my experience *aren't* dreamy introverts but hard-bitten, ambitious types (I'm scared of writers!)

... and yes, if I were mad enough to even take my horoscope seriously the country would be in trouble, methinks :)

The dreamy introverts would never survive the writing business, most likely. But it's nice to think there's a shade of one inside... where it counts.

Hope you're better soon {hugs} I wonder if Blair's algae shake would help???

"I wonder if Blair's algae shake would help"
Oh man...

It's an odd thing, but the last thing you want when you're sick, is healthy food. Or is that just me?

Nononono, not just you. When you're feeling weak and sickly anyway, you don't need something that makes you feel worse just by existing...

My childhood doctor (an old-fashioned sort) used to prescribe something called 'linctus' for anything he didn't think life-threatening - I always suspected it was on the grounds that the unlucky patient would will themselves better when faced with swallowing this thick, black, rusty-flavoured 'tonic'...

Hee! With me it's cheese spread - NOT real cheese, just icky processed stuff - slapped on crackers. Something I NEVER eat when I'm not ill. I have a perfectly lovely slab of farhouse truckle cheddar in my kitchen and I can't face it. All I want os Dairylea... Very strange. (o:

Weakly lifts cup of hot Ribene in a feeble toast. ::wibble::

::get well hugs::

Thanks hon. (o:

When I've taken the long version in the past I would come out INF/TP which apparently means I sit right on the border with the Feeling/Thinking. INTP is something like !% of the general population. I have to face it, I'm odd. ;)

I've never had a problem thinking of myself as introverted, if you want to define introversion as generally liking people, but becoming exhausted by too much contact with too many of them at once. That was always my own definition of introversion.

Since I began teaching, I took the long and the short version. I took it with a friend who showed me how the results were calculated. It came out I/ENT/FP. Heh. The Introvert/Extrovert scale was balanced right in the middle. My friend is also a teacher who explained it as I'm forcing myself to become more of an extrovert due to the teaching. I used to write from home. Now I do technical writing from home but more teaching. The way my friend put it was that he and I (his introversion/extroversion scale was one notch higher toward extrovert than mine) "turn on the switch" when we walk into the classroom, or a meeting, etc. Weird.

Hope you feel much better soon.

My psychology-PhD roomate defined int/ext for me as a person content with their interior world, as opposed to someone needing external stimulus. I'd say I was 50 - 50 on that.

It's a meme. I'm not taking it seriously! And I don;t know many dreamy introverts who become writers - or should I say, professional writers; people who actually make a living (no matter how scant) at it. It's too tough a profession; you need too thick a skin. It would kill the poor INFPs! ::G::

I suspect you're right about the INFPs and professional writing. I know two writers who are reasonably successful who are INTPs though. I don't think I'd make a good professional writer in either of my modes, although I can face down any number of nasty land developers in a professional capacity. Different types of toughness, I suppose.

Going with your psych roomate's def I'd have to say I'm more introvert than extrovert. On the other hand, I can get bored with my own world sometimes and will seek out external stimulus. Like you, maybe 50/50 here too...

"Hope you feel much better soon."
Thank you. (o:

It's one of those things everyone's got - very nasty. ::is not breathing on you, even virtually::

Hope you're feeling better now, Gilly. Being unwell sucks. ::hugs gently::

Indeed, it doth suck big, juicy eggs.

Thanks for the gentle hugs, babe (I wouldn;t wish this on anyone )o:)

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