Myers-Briggs and Nerdfighteria

Yesterday in SAN (Single Adult Nerdfighters...and if you haven't seen me talk about them before, then go back through some of my entries...or hang out with me for longer than an hour and you'll hear about them) we had a long discussion about Myers-Briggs Type Indicators (MBTI) and what it meant for how we all interact with each other as a group.

For those of you wondering "what the heck is Michelle talking about?" click here.
For those of you wondering what your "type" is, click here.

Personally, I am an INFJ...Introvert, iNtuition, Feeling, and Judgement. Please see above links to know what that means about me. Anyone who knows me will know this fits.

It's also the rarest of the 16 types.

We had a discussion about this back in the early days of SAN (back before we really knew each other, back before we lost all of our documents and information, back before the late night hangouts and hilarity) when we realized that we had many INFJs in the group. For a type that's so rare we seem to attract it. Now that the MBTI discussion has come back up, it's interesting to see once more the different personality types and to see how many of this supposed "rare" MBTI we have. I have friends who also fit into this type, so it's odd to me that for it being so rare that I encounter it so frequently.

Maybe it's because as an INFJ, we have always known there was something different about us...we've felt different from the people around us due to how we see the world. I know personally when I look at what being in this personality type tells me, it makes sense that I've sometimes felt like an outsider in group settings. I can mesh with some people's types, but not others. Extroverts, for example, tend to wear on me faster than any of the other letters that are opposite of me.

So maybe we're drawn together because of what we have in common. Nerdfighteria is a world of people who have come together in an amazing way. There are literally thousands of us (well, technically the vlogbrothers channel has 1 million subscribers...but they're not all active within the community). And for there to be so many of this supposed "rare" type...that's an amazing fact.