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[rou_killingtime]

So, I randomly came across a link to this personality test online. Normally, I don't even bother, but as this one was a proper Keirsey-Bates MBTI test (70 questions in total) I thought I'd give it a go. I have to confess that the test seems to have got me 'bang to rights'.

Your result for The LONG Scientific Personality Test...
INFP - the Healer

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[hutch0]

Well, I don't know whether this is mildly alarming or not, but I got the same result, even down to the percentages, although my J to P was 58%.

[rou_killingtime]

I'm not hugely surprised that you score as an INFP, just from reading your LJ entries I'd have pegged you as either that or INTP. Not sure whether congrats or commiserations are in order though!

See if any of these statements resonate with you: you have a small group of good friends rather than an extended social network, large gatherings make you somewhat uncomfortable and leave you emotionally drained (due to what I call the 'chameleon effect'*), you often feel appalled at the things we humans are capable of and embarrassed to be the same species.

If you're really unlucky, you'll share my terrible fear of the oblivion of death.

* The social analogue of Ray Bradbury's shape-shifting / empathic Martians, where one literally adjusts one's surface personality and mannerisms in order to try to fit in. It has its uses, but it's bloody exhausting.

[hutch0]

Yep, that's a match. What medication are you on again...?

[rou_killingtime]

I'm pretty sure that was rhetorical, but just in case it wasn't - venlafaxine. Although I'm no longer on it, as it ultimately only gave me minor benefits and some unpleasant side effects. I'm self-medicating now.

I've been told by various people that "I can do that 'social chameleon thing too", to which I reply "Sure, but can you choose not to do it? Because I can't". Being unable to prevent one's self being a social chameleon seems to be very much an INFP thing, from what I can gather.