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posted at 11:36 pm on 07-28-2009
INTJ
7 Extraversion, 14 Introversion, 4 Sensing, 22 Intuition, 14 Thinking, 10 Feeling, 12 Judging and 10 Perceiving!
Introverted Intuition with Extraverted Thinking
Approximately 2.1% of persons in the United States are INTJs.
Summary:
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance--for themselves and others.
At Their Best
People with INTJ preferences have a clear vision of future possibilities coupled with the drive and organization to implement their ideas. They love complex challenges and readily synthesize complicated theoretical and abstract matters. Once they have created their general structure, they devise strategies to achieve their goals. Their global thinking leads them to develop visionary goals and a broad - brush plan for achieving these within large organizational structures.
INTJs value knowledge and expect competence of them- selves and others. They especially abhor confusion, mess, and inefficiency.
Characteristics of INTJs
INTJs see things from a global perspective and quickly relate new information to overall patterns. They trust their insightful connections regardless of established authority or popular opinions. Dull routine smothers their creativity. INTJs use their Intuition primarily internally, where they develop complex structures and pictures of the future. They are likely to be
· Insightful, creative synthesizers
· Conceptual, long-range thinkers
INTJs use their thinking to make logical decisions. They assess everything with a critical eye, quickly identify problems to solve, and are tough and decisive when the situation calls for toughness. INTJs tend to be
· Clear and concise
· Rational, detached, and objectively critical
INTJs are excellent long-range planners and often rise to positions of leadership in groups or organizations. They are independent, trust their own perceptions and judgments more than those of others, and apply their high standards of knowledge and competence most rigorously to themselves.
How Others May See Them
INTJs present a calm, decisive, and assured face to the world, though they may find it difficult to engage in social conversation. They usually don't directly express their most valued and valuable part: their creative insights. Instead, they translate them into logical decisions, opinions, and plans, which they often express clearly. Because of this, others sometimes experience INTJs as intractable, much to the surprise of the INTJ, who is very willing to change an opinion when new evidence emerges. Others usually see INTJs as
· Private, reserved, hard to know, even aloof
· Conceptual, original, and independent
Potential Areas for Growth
Sometimes life circumstances have not supported INTJs in the development and expression of their Thinking and Intuitive preferences.
· If they have not developed their Thinking, INTJs may not have reliable ways to translate their valuable insights into achievable realities.
· If they have not developed their Intuition, they may not take in enough information or take in only that information that fits their insights. Then they may make ill - founded decisions based on limited or idiosyncratic information.
If INTJs do not find a place where they can use their gifts and be appreciated for their contributions, they usually feel frustrated and may
· Become aloof and abrupt, not giving enough information about their internal processing.
· Be critical of those who do not see their vision quickly
· Become single-minded and unyielding in pursuing it
It is natural for INTJs to give less attention to their non- preferred Sensing and Feeling parts. If they neglect these too much, however, they may
· Overlook details or facts that do not fit into their Intuitive patterns
· Engage in "intellectual games," quibbling over abstract issues and terms that have little meaning or relevance to others
· Not give enough weight to the impacts of their decisions on individuals
· Fail to give as much praise or intimate connection as others desire
Under great stress, INTJs can overindulge in Sensing activities watching TV reruns, playing cards, overeating or become overly focused on specific details in their environment that they normally do not notice or usually see as unimportant (housecleaning, organizing cupboards).
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Masquarade
posted at 12:21 am on 03-18-2007
I have a little secret I wear upon my face
I keep it very near to me in a most convenient place.
I hope you do not guess it, you might take me to task
I take it out and put it on, it's my "normal" NT mask!
It keeps the world from pressing in; it makes me look like you!
I wear it so easily you won’t believe that it's not true
I laugh and nod and make my mouth do what passes for a smile
I walk and talk and do the stuff that makes me rank and file.
But underneath the artifice, I am bored with all your talk.
Your gossip and your ‘he said-she said’; at all of this I balk!
You're constantly rattling on about the very least of things
your husband's warts, your baby's farts, your last romantic fling.
I’m sure it’s very interesting, and I tilt my head just so
I don’t want to be left out, so I put on the show.
After all should I decide to let my Aspie out?
I could bore you too, to TEARS, and be thought of as a lout.
So when you’re on and on about the rights of "people of the pod*"
and force your strict conformity on politics, style, and God.
Mind games you play with no regard for innocence or youth
you're quick to point with fingers gnarled at what you see as 'Truth.’
But I bear it all with stoicism, and onward do I march
to keep lock step with all of you when inwardly I lurch
you rub me wrong, you irritate, you scrape my nerve ends raw
you constantly regale me with what you did and saw
So if I inwardly rebel against the draw of luck
and stifle yelling to your face, “you idiot! you suck!”
and out from the mask cracks the rebellion wells and oozes
pardon me, in the genetic crap shoot; YOU are the bunch of losers.
· (Pod people) obscure reference to a 1957 black and white horror movie called "The Night of the Living Dead" where people were cloned in pods like peas.
it's poetic license, so sue me!
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Mental Stim
posted at 08:42 pm on 03-17-2007
Advancing human justice is why I strive.
It is how I address my outrage to what I have witnessed in my life.
Or is it just a mental stim that I doing to make my brain feel good, this thirst for justice?
I KNOW it bores the **** out of other people as I whine, whine whine about past tortures. But even if I were somehow magically compensated for all those outrages, if I were restored to whole and had a confident and loving upbringing - would I not have mentally stimmed myself with what ever I compulsively fixated on and obsessed about THAT too?
Of course, this is because I don't know if I had those outrages, but If I have, then that is probably why I am outraged all the time.
Well, that is interesting, is this thirst for justice just an aspie trait, an aspie trait with a little obsessive compulsive tossed in like herbs in a stuffing recipe?
And is WHAT we become 0bsessed and compulsive about. . does it really matter? do we just project some overwhelming noble purpose onto what is really a mental/thought stim. A 'stim' that is not of the limbs, but a stim of the thought processes.
whew!
"Inna BRAIN! I am stimming Inna BRAIN
no wonder folks think me insane is cause I'm stimming Inna BRAIN"
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The plot gets thicker. . .
posted at 09:02 pm on 03-12-2007
It's not so much I have DID, as it is what emerges from me when I am in a set of circumstance that causes the other personality to come out.
I am starting to catalog my different personas I will list them here.
The title was a moniker my creative writing professor gave me. He said I had no sense what was wildly inappropriate and what was merely socially surprising. When he found out I collasped into tears if I found I had shocked or made folks uncomfortable he knew much more than I about my autism. Though he wouldn't have said it like that. I would have been more a will 'o the whisp or fairy changeling to him than autistic.
I would have agreed.
this is part of a series of stories I am writing because I:
2. think it theraputic
3. my legacy
4. interest to others
5. retirement fund
I find writing interactively this way to be quite stimulating to the neurons that might have otherwise moldered away in the attic of my mind. I have been through a lot and have had many different personas I have developed over the years.
2. Rebeckhah Miriamne Tovarish
a The Flower Child
b The Cook emerges
c
3. Tara The Green
a. Lilli Ursula Hicks
b. The Substitute
c. Melelani
4. Trinity T Aquarian
a drunk
b not drunk
5. Robinelle
a Claudia
b Cyanne
6. Merle
So what I have come to understand is I have a co morbidity on my AS and it is DID, or disassociative identiy disorder. They say they can 'help' this by integrating all my above personalities I have used in my life.
stuff all of these lifetimes back into the can, so to speak, and then I will be satisfied. Well, they must know better than I, right?
We will see.
Merle
Theres no shame in being a social pariah. . .
Marge Simpson
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Thank you for filling out this questionnaire.
Your Aspie score: 182 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 20 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
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posted at 09:35 pm on 03-01-2007
I have a little secret I wear upon my face
I keep it very near to me in a most convenient place.
I hope you do not guess it, you might take me to task
I take it out and put it on, it's my "normal" NT mask!
It keeps the world from pressing in; it makes me look like you!
I wear it so easily you won’t believe that it's not true
I laugh and nod and make my mouth do what passes for a smile
I walk and talk and do the stuff that makes me rank and file.
But underneath the artifice, I am bored with all your talk.
Your gossip and your ‘he said-she said’; at all of this I balk!
You're constantly rattling on about the very least of things
your husband's warts, your baby's farts, your last romantic fling.
I’m sure it’s very interesting, and I tilt my head just so
I don’t want to be left out, so I put on the show.
After all should I decide to let my Aspie out?
I could bore you too to tears, and thought of as a lout.
So when you’re on and on about the rights of "people of the pod*"
and force your strict conformity on politics, style, and God.
Mind games you play with no regard for innocence or youth
you're quick to point with fingers gnarled at what you see as 'Truth.’
But I bear it all with stoicism, and onward do I march
to keep lock step with all of you when inwardly I lurch
you rub me wrong, you irritate, you scrape my nerve ends raw
you constantly regale me with what you did and saw
So if I inwardly rebel against the draw of luck
and stifle yelling to your face, “you idiot! you suck!”
and out from the mask cracks the rebellion wells and oozes
pardon me, in the genetic crap shoot; you are the bunch of losers.
· (Pod people) obscure reference to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” a black and white 1956 American Science Fiction Movie
· poetic license, so sue me!
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Sins Boldly
posted at 08:21 pm on 11-22-2006
I was told by a creative writing teacher that my technique was what Martin Luther called "Sinning Boldly" He meant that I just put myself out there, no matter what was appropriate or prudent, I just crashed through boundries and stated my mind and opinion as if I had common sense and it was the most appropriate thing in the world.
I didn't get what he ment then, but after diagnosis, I do now. I am starting to get the attitude of '**** them if they can't take a joke.
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