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Advice appreciated: Am I INTP or INFJ?

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Hello everyone!

I hope you're having a great morning afternoon/evening/night.

I read that INFP and INTPs often mistype as each other and I'm curious if I'm a INTP who's been mistyping for an INFP for a while. I've taken many Myers Briggs tests and they all said that I'm INFP, but when I take tests on "how to tell if you INFP or INTP" I get mixed results.

I'm guessing that's because those tests are mainly based on testing how much you value logic, and I love theoretical questions, philosophy, science, and overthinking. It's a bit jarring to read descriptions of INFPs as people who dislike science and organisation (definitely not true for me), but I don't fit the usual description of INTPs either since I try to make everyone happy even if that means hiding what I think the truth is.

I think I've mostly answered my own question. I'm reasonably certain (about 90 percent) that I'm an INFP who has an approach to logic that's typical of INTPs. I could just be an emotional INTP who greatly values making others feel valued however.

Does anyone have advice on how to gain greater clarity? And personality type would you peg me as and why?

Some random facts that I hope will be helpful if you want to accurately type me:

My best subject in school was English, but I also got A's in every single science based subject like Chemistry and Biology. In the fantasy novel I'm writing, I want to create a very detailed conlang that's realistic enough to be a naturally evolved language, make a map complete with tectonic plates, and other assorted sciencey/pedantic-y stuff, but the reason I started writing the novel in the first place was to understand people on a deep level and explore different emotional states and ideas.

Aaaand now I'm uncertain again. Help. At least I know I'm I, N, and P for sure -- it's reassuring to have that certainty.

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I think you are INTP.

Please provide nudibranch now.
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Hello everyone!

I hope you're having a great morning afternoon/evening/night.

I read that INFP and INTPs often mistype as each other and I'm curious if I'm a INTP who's been mistyping for an INFP for a while. I've taken many Myers Briggs tests and they all said that I'm INFP, but when I take tests on "how to tell if you INFP or INTP" I get mixed results.

I'm guessing that's because those tests are mainly based on testing how much you value logic, and I love theoretical questions, philosophy, science, and overthinking. It's a bit jarring to read descriptions of INFPs as people who dislike science and organisation (definitely not true for me), but I don't fit the usual description of INTPs either since I try to make everyone happy even if that means hiding what I think the truth is.
I'd probably go with INTP. If you had strong Fi, you would likely be aware of your feelings, identity, and values. Trying to make everyone happy is probably a enneagram type 9 thing.
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I think you are INTP.

Please provide nudibranch now.
Thanks for your input! Can you elaborate?

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i would rule out infp for a while and sit with the idea of being an intp. in the meantime i’d read a bit about infj’s since there’s a possibility and with how you’ve been responding i don’t think it’s so far fetched.

The only thing that’s even only somewhat certain is the cognitive functions. Whether there really are only 8 I don’t know and frankly I don’t think there’s been enough research but go fund some quack personality theory with no real commercial value. So really get acquainted with those and how they manifest themselves in different placements and don’t forget we do in fact use all 8. Shadow functions are a can of worms i personally haven’t explored but it could explain why on tests you get high preference for functions that don’t necessarily align with a particular mbti type.

Side note quite a lot of these descriptions still don’t make any sense to me so beware. As I said there’s simply not enough cold hard facts to back up the speculation so don’t take it too seriously. This is alchemy.
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