Is it rare for a person with aspergers to be an INFP?

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I am an INFJ. Sometimes (depending on how I read the questions), I will get a P instead. Actually, when I was younger, my F was very strong, but over the past several years, the T and the F have been getting closer, as have the I and E. The N and S have been pretty constant. I may be totally off wit this, but I would guess that those who score J instead of P have more OCD tendencies than the P's.

I am an INFP but I mistype as INTP every time because of my aspie traits. However, I score high on Fi and low on Ti.

Nope. That's me.
I'm INFP 100% of the time.

(well, assuming I do have AS)

Comparing those results (INFP 9%) with this distribution estimate, INFPs may be more common among people with Aspergers than among the general population (INFP 4-5%).

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I should think it be weird for an autistic to be an ENFP or ENFJ, but I've seen a couple of therapists who told me they could see I was and see I was autistic.

I'm INTJ. I had no idea it was a more male way of thinking (I'm female) or that it was rare for a female. It's funny because I look very female but have often felt like I think like a man in some ways and in the BEM questionnaire I came out near the centre line between "undifferentiated" and "androgynous" near the masculine side.

It's not that much more common among males than females.

Not in my case. I have been diagnosed with OCD and the last time I checked I was INFP. I'm feeling more extroverted lately just like you so I'll have to check again to make sure I'm not more of an ENFP now.

I am an INFP.

In my case, I have some inherent Aspie traits but picked up others from my family. My parents and brother are definitely introverted thinkers with a number of AS traits, and for years I tried to relate to them and to the world by following their example of logically thinking about everything. It wasn't really natural for me, so trying to be that way made me very anxious and nervous.

The more I trust my intuitions and feelings, the happier I am.

I find this really interesting. I would say that I am INFP, and actually idealistic and optimistic on the inside and more cynical on the outside. Most of the people I know do seem to be more negative and cynical, and I don't like it when people tell me that I am naive, a cockeyed optimist, or a Pollyanna. I want people to take me seriously, so I hide how idealistic and optimistic I am at times. The more I let my positive optimism show, I think the better people relate to me. It's not the optimism that people relate to as much as the fact that they can sense that I'm being more authentic.

I am another INFP

I = 56%
N = 12%
F = 50%
P = 11%

People tend to treat me as if I'm much younger and more naive than I am.

This makes a lot of sense to me, since in an INFJ the weakest function is sensing, which has to do with our perception of and relationship to physical reality, which seems to be what being OCD is about in a lot of ways. I also wonder if it has to do with asexuality.

I sometimes test as INFJ (sometimes even as INxx), though my usual preference is INFP (where sensing is the third function, so weak as well, and introverted). There are times when I get into an almost OCD way of dealing with reality. It makes me very squeamish, and pretty much ruined gardening for me.

I get that too--being treated as younger and more naive than I am. I also get the cockeyed optimist/Pollyanna comments. As a male INFP aspie I can be a paradox. I feel a need to reach out and empathize with other people, but my poor social skills keep me from expressing this meaningfully. A lot of people think that the "F" can't apply to aspies because we're not supposed to have empathy, but actually the so-called lack of empathy is really just a breakdown in intuitive understanding of other people's feelings, but that doesn't mean we can't consciously be aware of the need to empathize. Maybe some aspies do lack empathy altogether, but I think most of us just can't get our feelings for others across in a way that is meaningful to them. It tends to stay bottled up. I think that being an INFP idealist and having Asperger's at the same time makes for a very confusing and frustrating existence. I have the desire to help people but also want to be left alone. I constantly worry about hurting people's feelings, but I have the aspie "foot-in-mouth" disease, so I end up keeping things to myself to avoid saying the wrong thing. It may look like I don't care, when I may actually care more than anyone else.

The MBTI only shows what "function" you prefer to use, it doesn't exclude one from the other. (: You need all the functions.

I'm an aspie INFP female and sometimes I think my my extreme introversion is the only reason I got a diagnosis, but I dunno. Although my F used to be pretty extreme when I was younger it's the "weakest" of my letters now and I'm almost tipping over to T, but still quite..solidly not.

c(: