SJ, How Are You NOT Like Your Type Description?

[SquirrelTao]

Okay, all you SJs, tell us how your own experience of being you diverges from your MBTI type description.

[pure_mercury]

Okay, all you SJs, tell us how your own experience of being you diverges from your MBTI type description.

I am a very weird, free-thinking, libertarian entertainment industry worker. And an ESFJ (highly E and J).

[dnivera]

I'm extroverted and not shy when you first meet me. I become quieter as you get to know me (because "the real me" is Si!) and I'm more OK with silence while spending time with people.

[ArbiterDewey]

Freethinking, hands down. The religion stereotype was true for awhile until the first sentence set in.

[Spectre of the spam]

I'm quit when you first get to know me, but once your "in" I can talk and talk all day long about absolutely nothing.



It's really fun.

[Bella]

Hmmm, start off quiet but when you're in I'll still be quiet. In fact, it is The Great Test. I love being quiet together.
What's not typical? I can write something half-decent and creative, if I do say so myself.

[frenchkiss]

I don't feel any "need to be needed," at least not even semi-consciously.

I'm not very good when it comes to remembering birthdays and writing thank you notes and things like that. I'm not a PTA/bake sale sort of person.

I'm pretty conventional in the way I live my life, but I'm not horrified by things that don't fit the norm. I'm comfortable with the fact that some people are polyamorous, for example.

I used to work with another ISFJ who was totally aghast when I told her I liked guys with tattoos. She put her hand to her heart and did this. :eek: Then she giggled nervously and said, "Oh, you're so silly!!"

I am not THAT.

Edit: I guess, considering my age, that my views about what is socially appropriate are pretty conventional. In this way, I am like my type. I guess I just wanted to make the point that I don't fit into the stereotype.

[oasispaw]

i don't do the duty thing. i'm creative, open-minded, and like to gain knowledge. i'm feisty and not sheepish, as the description implies.