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Viinasu wrote:so i would think that it wouldn't matter too much if you tend to think about what is rather than what could be, to be schizoid. O.o

I don't think the S fits at all. SPD seems to involve a general withdrawnness into the mind and the mental world. I think the S equivalent to SPD would be on the autism spectrum.

Platypus wrote:I think there's a difficulty in correctly gauging your own personality, especially if it is disordered. Ten years ago I got zero for "F" (for feeling) and I would have ridiculed anybody who suggested I was a 'feeling' type. Now I'm not so sure what I am, but I realise my actions often don't fit those of somebody who is thinking-dominant. I used to feel so sure of my answers, but now these tests confuse me.

I would agree with this, but I also feel like a lot of the yes or no questions on these tests require a paragraph answer and the wording can be kind of ambiguous or at least unsatisfying.

Your Type is
INTJ
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
89 38 75 11

all NT so far doesn't surprise me...

Viinasu wrote:i'm kind of surprised that everyone is intuitive rather than sensing.

so i would think that it wouldn't matter too much if you tend to think about what is rather than what could be, to be schizoid. O.o

I'm not surprised. schizoids have a "rich inner fantasy world" - daydream a lot about what they would like to be, right? that suggests dreaming rather than doing, which means being focussed on "what could be" and trusting "what you imagine" rather than being focused on "what is" and trusting "what is clearly there".

maladaptive daydreaming like that would really upset a sensing type, where most schizoids seem to use their inner world as an escape, a sensing type would hate themselves for it every time they ended up drifting off into thinking not doing, for whatever reason. i can't imagine it happening to a sensing type as a preference!

also, with feeling, why not? - i thought schizoids can have feelings, but where they do, they are detached from other people, and only feel in relation to their inner world?

what about affects of PDs and natural personality types, do you think they are likely to match up, or that people with PDs might also be likely to get false readings on Jung types?

Platypus wrote:However, some people suggest that people with SPD are most likely to be ISTP or INFJ e.g. have a look here.

Hang on, that explains exactly that! Of course some PDs are missed out - or could they be seen as grouped under others, seeing each type has 2 choices?

i think he's getting somewhere, but i'm also thinking something is missing... not complete somehow ?

Platypus wrote:I think there's a difficulty in correctly gauging your own personality, especially if it is disordered. Ten years ago I got zero for "F" (for feeling) and I would have ridiculed anybody who suggested I was a 'feeling' type. Now I'm not so sure what I am, but I realise my actions often don't fit those of somebody who is thinking-dominant. I used to feel so sure of my answers, but now these tests confuse me.

i don't even know if im an introvert or an extrovert! lol

what about grey areas, because people can prefer one style more or less than another, right?

vertices wrote:I don't think the S fits at all. SPD seems to involve a general withdrawnness into the mind and the mental world. I think the S equivalent to SPD would be on the autism spectrum

interesting. i didn't think it fitted either. how is it that do you think the S side of things would put something on the autism spectrum - cause i wouldn't have thought of autism as a personality trait or disorder, and can imagine its very possible for people on the autistic spectrum to have all sorts of personalities, and possibly Autism will make life more difficult for some personalities than others, explaining how e.g. research said cluster A disorders are more common in people with AS. i'm curious why you think the S would resemble autism tho.

katana wrote:interesting. i didn't think it fitted either. how is it that do you think the S side of things would put something on the autism spectrum - cause i wouldn't have thought of autism as a personality trait or disorder, and can imagine its very possible for people on the autistic spectrum to have all sorts of personalities, and possibly Autism will make life more difficult for some personalities than others, explaining how e.g. research said cluster A disorders are more common in people with AS. i'm curious why you think the S would resemble autism tho.

Well note that I didn't say I think S resembles autism as a rule, but I do think that the more "S" equivalent of SPD would be somewhere on the autistic spectrum.

I mean someone who had outwardly schizoid behavior but an ISxx personality.

Being interested in the world around you and not interested in people implies some sort of deficiency. I believe that schizoids, on the other hand, are interested in people--idealized, imaginary people. People that don't hurt or abandon, or expose one to vulnerability. They have a lot of the needs and desires that normal people have, but fulfill them through fantasy because their perceptions of the reality tell them that it is unsatisfying.

For example, the one asocial S I know, who is more specifically an ISTP, is also a diagnosed aspie. Just like me, he rarely goes out, doesn't seek out new relationships, etc. However, He has a lot of difficulty understanding my fantasizing and more abstract, imaginative thinking. He likes facts. Things that just are the way they are. And he very actively dislikes fantasy. And I think that S part of the personality really cleanly differentiates a personality like his from SPD because the essence of the schizoid thought process is just lost on him.

I got ISTJ today. That's what I get most of the time on these. Though sometimes I get ISTP or INTJ.

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
89 25 75 33

When reading about the types I never think any of them fit me. But I also think that I don't actually know myself that well. So maybe they do fit...?

I got ISTP, which, after reading the description, somewhat fits, I guess.

I personally think most of the questions are much too vague to be answered with a simple yes/no, though, which I feel skews my results quite a bit.

Also, my results.
Introverted: 89
Sensing: 1
Thinking: 38
Perceiving: 11

INFJ for me, normally. I've gotten ISTJ too, and I think I'm gravitating towards those characteristics as I get older.

I always *think* I should be INTJ. I don't think of myself as a "feeler".

INFJ wrote:I have a very internal focus. I think I look at myself through other people’s eyes, but sometimes I can lose touch with how things work for me. Then I can get introspective, going very deep and staying there, not coming out too quickly or easily. Somehow I find it very difficult to put into words and communicate the things that really matter to me. Most people don’t have the foggiest notion about what goes on with me.

I like harmony and seek consensus and do well with the deep issues. My values and the things that are important to me often feel outside the mainstream in the sense that I feel impinged upon and uncomfortable with so much of what goes on. I’m too private to push my values on to other people, but I am convinced that one ought to be congruent in their own life if they are going to expect congruence from others. In a sense I hold other people to that standard, and I worry about my own incongruities, inconsistencies, and contradictions. Groups can be hard.

Your Type is INTP

Introverted 100
Intuitive 75
Thinking 62
Perceiving 44

You are:

very expressed introvert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed thinking personality
moderately expressed perceiving personality

INTJ

Introverted 100
Intuitive 25
Thinking 88
Judging 56

I see some have had fluctuating results (and from what I know about these tests, that's normal) but I'm a very consistent INTP. Out of curiosity I took this test as well, and yes I'm "still" a very expressed INTP -

Introverted 89
Intuitive 88
Thinking 75
Perceiving 79