PERSONALITY TYPE

The people in my Family and Myself.

ESFP: The Performer / Artisans - Brother
ESTP: The Promoter / Artisans - Father
ESFJ: The Protector / Guardians - Mother
iNTJ: The Mastermind / Rationals - Me

Personal Analysis based on observation of the character types in my family.

"I already knew some of that stuff about myself, but I didn't know that I was a kind or type of person, and that therefore there had to be others just like me."

I also understood for the first time why I felt so different from everybody else, including my parents, brothers, and friends, and why I hated irrationals, impulsive individuals and despised stupidity. All those years growing up I hadn't been sure whether there was something wrong with me or with all these other people, but I was sure that I had never met anyone like me. Why everyone saw me as cold, distant, emotionless, proud and arrogant has all been explained.


*Disorders to which each type may be predisposed*
(BEFORE READING, I'M AWARE THAT MY RESEARCH SHINES A NEGATIVE LIGHT ON THE PERSONALITY TYPES, (that's just me being a cynic) BUT THERE'S MUCH POSITIVE AND GOODNESS IN EACH AND EVERY TYPE.)

If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them.
Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do.
Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be.
I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.
If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself to the possibility that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear as right for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And one day, perhaps, in trying to understand me, you might come to prize my differences, and, far from seeking to change me, might preserve and even cherish those differences.
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, your colleague. But whatever our relation, this I know: You and I are fundamentally different and both of us have to march to our own drummer.

I can confirm the following disorders have occurred at some point in my life and some may still be ongoing. However the extent do how severe the disorders are is subjective and may not always appear to be the way they seem. For example the ESTP may not be a pornstar but the need for stiumlation is great.

I am not homosexual but the fetishes are at certain points in my life true, sadly.


ESFP: The Entertainer
1. Promiscuity: A love of pleasing others combined with a high need for excitement, and keen senses, makes them prone to this.


ESTP: The Promoter
1. Compulsive gambling: The need for risky excitement, tendency for greed, and inferior ability to visualize the results of actions can lead to unwise gambling.
2. Violence/Belligerence: Again, need for excitement and lack of "moral" constraints can lead to fighting, assualt, and bullying.
3. Promiscuity: Need for stimulation strikes again, most porn stars are ESTP.
4. Addictive personality: A need to feel numb and disassociated from themselves leads them to use of substances like heroin or alcohol.


ESFJ: The Caregiver
1. Very Abusive: Again, violence is seen as acceptable in many circumstances, however, intense focusing on feelings and inferior ability to use logical restraint causes them to be less restrained than ISTJ or ESTJ, and hence the most abusive.
2. Physically uncoordinated: Often they are the most physically unncoordinated people, having trouble at various activies such as learning to drive, driving in the dark, riding a bike, or anything that requires coordination and athleticism.


INTJ: The Scientist
1. Obessive-Compulsive Disorder: Need for closure can often warp into OCD, which they say is caused by a misfiring of the brain's signal to end a particular action or thought process.
[Happens all the time, this is where I go into Manic Depression and fall into a lesser stage of insanity]
2. Disthymia: All INTJ are arguable disthymic, which is defined as low level non suicidal depression characterized by a lack of affect (emotional expression).
3. Transvestitism, Crossdressing: INTJs elaborate process of mimicking those they oppose or wish to emulate can result in crossdressing fetishes in both genders.



Note: Homosexuality: This seems to occur mostly in INTP, INTJ, INFP, ISFJ, and ENFP. Probably because of a disregard of society's standards (in INTJ and INTP), or valuing good feelings over social standards (INFP and ISFJ), or a fascination with the beautiful and poetic, traditionally feminine qualities (ENFP).

- Also Explains why most homos I've met seemed bright. 

More notes about myself.

"insist that they have a rationale for everything they do, that whatever they do and say makes sense.
So Myers described the NTs as "analytical" and "systematic"-as "ab- stract," "theoretical," and "intellectual"-as "complex," "competent" and "inventive"-as "efficient," "exacting" and "independent"-as "logical" and "technical"-and as "curious," "scientific," and "research-oriented." Here again is a unique and easily recognizable configuration of character traits, the NTs a breed apart, starkly different from SPs, SJs, and NFs." - Adapted from Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey

Masterminds tend to be much more self-confident than other Rationals, having usually developed a very strong will. Decisions come easily to them; indeed, they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. They have a drive to completion, always with an eye to long-term conse- quences. Ideas seem to carry their own force for them, although they subject every idea to the test of usefulness. Difficulties are highly stimulating to INTJs, who love responding to a problem that requires a creative solution. These traits of character lead them to occupations where theoretical models can be translated into actuality. They build data and human systems wherever they work, if given the slightest opportunity. They can be outstanding in scientific research and as executives in businesses.

INTJs are the highest achievers in school of all the types. And on the job, because of their tendency to drive others as hard as they drive themselves, they often seem demanding and difficult to satisfy. Their fellow workers often feel as if a Mastermind can see right through them, and often believe that they find them wanting. This tendency of people to feel transparent, and even incompetent, in their presence often results in working relationships which have some psychological distance. Colleagues may describe INTJs as unemotional and, at times, cold and dispassionate, when in truth they are merely taking the goals of an institution seriously, and continually striving to achieve those goals. Fortunately, indifference or criticism from their fellow workers does not particularly bother Masterminds, if they believe that they are right. All in all, they make dedicated, loyal employees whose loyalties are directed toward the system, rather than toward individuals within the system. As the people in an institution come and go, these NTs have little difficulty getting on with their jobs-unlike the NFs, who have their loyalties involved more with persons than projects.