Myers Briggs type vs. Aspie-ness

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After doing a search I can see that the Myers Briggs has been brought up before, but not in quite a while. Most aspies seem to get INTP or INTJ as a result, it seems, but I'm wondering if there are any other ENTP aspies around, and if so, how do you feel that your aspie-ness interacts with your Myers Briggs type? (Other types can answer too but I'd really like to hear from other ENTPs).

People get completely different impressions of my personality just based on my mood and the day I talk to them. I *seem* very introverted at times because I'm always thinking about something, but I keep a lot of my thoughts to myself - especially around the people I grew up around - because most times I open my mouth they give me this look like "are you high or something?" No, I'm not. I'm interested in strange topics and I just have a very non-linear way of thinking and people don't get it. Shutting up = me not wanting to look more eccentric than necessary in those types of situations. And therefore people assume I'm quiet, sweet and shy.

Also, if I'm doing something I'm interested in, I get completely and totally focused to the point where I forget to eat, sleep, and come out of my room to say hi to people. This is more of an autistic behavior than an introverted one, I'd imagine, because it's not so much a 'need to be alone because I need to recharge' as it is 'omg get away from me I'm working'. A good friend of mine said I'm like a mad scientist in a lab.

If I'm stressed, social interaction is the last thing I want to deal with because it's mental work. I used to think I was majorly introverted because of this, but I've realized in the past year that this is not true introversion. My best friend is an introvert who could live by herself on a mountaintop for a year and not get bored because she loves being alone. I don't love being alone. Sometimes I just don't want to deal with others because they get in the way of whatever master plan I'm concocting at the time, as rude as that may seem...and then when I've got the master plan figured out I involve as many of them as possible. (For example, writing a script for something I'd like to film, wanting complete and total isolation as I'm writing and then going into what my mom calls 'dictator mode' as a director. And then back to my room for 18 hours straight of editing and not sleeping/eating.)

Other people - the ones I open up around - see the ENTP-ness. But I guess it's ENTP-ness mixed with aspieness, so I've got the off-the-wall eccentric intellectual personality mixed with being completely hyper and distractable. It's like in one part I have serious fixations on topics and obsessions; if I'm stuck on something or in a bad mood I act like a brooding intellectual - I get stuck on a topic and I won't let up until I've figured it out. Sort of like Dr. House, if you've seen that show. But at other times I'm the life of the party; I act like a five year old who's had too much candy when I'm happy. I don't make sense to people, and I know it. I find it impossible at times to reconcile these two sides of my personality, yet at the same time both of them are 100% me.

i'm an infj. my penchant for relating has resulted in my social skills gradually improving.

I am an ENFP so I can relate. I look very spaced out but I am not really introverted as such. Ie, I am not shy and not afraid to say what I think, and I am quite impulsive, and quite abrupt and blunt when I talk, and I also introduce way out topics too...

But most people think I am an introvert, thats just the AS though.

There was a girl on here I remember said she was an ENTP but I dont see her here often. She was quite a flamboyant character.

I must be in the minority. I've alternated between ISFJ and ISFP, which is quite accurate for the most part.

I test as either an INTJ or INTP, which suits me just fine. However, am I testing as an INTJ/INTP because I have Asperger's Syndrome, or am I Mastermind and Thinker both?

Although, if I can't figure out the answer to that question on my own, then I am neither a Mastermind nor a Thinker, so it probably is because of AS.

My result was INTJ, but I actually feel more like an extrovert, with shy tendencies (in a group, seldom one to one).

I've taken several Meyers-Briggs tests online and every time I've scored as an INTJ.

There were some myers brigg polls on here, and aspies r most commonly INTJ. Im ISTJ, but I like to say Im an ISTJ in rebellion, kinda weird.

I have done only two tests so far, the results were ISTP, close to INTP, which is more like me I think.

On the extroverted/introverted scale I'm definitely somewhere in between, closer to the introverted end. Compared to you, OP, I'm a little more introverted, I guess. I like to seek out for interactions sometimes and long periods of being alone make me anxious, kind of feeling lost in the world. But, I'm ok being alone most of the time. I've noticed that I like to be close to people but interact only a little with them. There are people I interact with more, they are my friends, I have only two close friends. I was alway like this, it's my preferred way of existence.

INFP here, and it seems to me that the "I" is almost in the Aspie definition -- we need some friends, but we also need the alone time to recharge.

I'm an INFJ & Type 4 on the Enneagram, but I frequently test high in regards to being an ENFJ and Type 2, and skirt the line a bit.

It's made me wonder about the MBTI/Enneagram and how they apply to autism.

I don't know what my personality type is. I've always been given differing results it seems and the letters I'd choose for myself don't match up to the descriptions of such a person that I find.

I find the task of defining myself difficult enough. I always feel like everything or nothing.

I've gotten ISTP.



Problem with me, I can appear extroverted, as I'm not like, shy in general. Shy around girls a tad, but around almost everyone else, I'm very outgoing. So I'm guessing there's a difference between outgoing vs extrovertedness. But a lot of the time, too, I see a conversation not as an emotional connection in any way, but just as a way to exchange knowledge. So I'll be "rambling" thinking I'm doing the person a favor by telling them what I know, and they won't care. HOWEVER, I tend to tolerate other people rambling, too, as a lot of times I can pick up information from it and use it later.

I took a few test & done a bit of reading on the different types & my personality types is a hard-core ISTJ. I know my personality is different from a typical Aspie's but I think some of that is because I had different issues & problems all my life from things besides AS so my personality is different.

In the Meyers-Briggs/Jungian sense, Intravert/Extravert has nothing to do with shyness. Intraverts may enjoy socializing, but it uses up their energy, so they have to take some time alone and recharge. By the end of the party, they're exhausted. Extraverts _receive_ energy from socializing: When everybody less extreme Es than they are is ready to home, they're going strong more than ever, lampshade on the head, and all. It has to do with the direction of energy flow.

INFP here, consistently over a number of years, before my AS diagnosis. On reflection my quite skewed or minority responses from a range of personality tests were a factor in making me curious about AS and then seek diagnosis.