Weird signs you might be a sensitive INFP personality type

INFP is one of 16 personality types in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. INFP stands for introverted (in constant contact with the inner world), intuitive (abstract-thinking), feeling (ethics/values-focussed), and perceiving (more flexible lifestyle than controlled/organised).

Sign you may be INFP: You can compulsively organise very specific things but are generally disorganised. A few select/special aspects of your life may require routine and order, but it can be difficult for you to take a controlled/organised approach to most things in life.

Sign you may be INFP: You may experience analysis-paralysis and it is difficult to “get carried away in the moment” and lose sense of consequence – you may be hyper-aware of consequences and risks. However, you are still spontaneous when an idea gives you a sense of "wonder."

Sign you may be INFP: You may feel disconnected from your body, environment and physical reality. If you explore, it is often mentally and playfully – falling down research rabbit holes, enjoying novel ideas, and creating and enjoying puns, impressions, irony, and parodies.

Sign you may be INFP: You prefer to consult evidenced facts and statistics when thinking about something logically, rather than come up with novel dry logic or mathematical theories. INFPs can enjoy pre-established theoretical frameworks when they line up with their values.

Sign you may NOT be INFP: You don’t spend a significant amount of time parsing apart or analysing the meaning and purity of your thoughts, feelings, and intentions. When unsure about how they feel about something, INFPs feel uncomfortable taking action before they “know.”

Sign you may NOT be INFP: You consistently have a relatively stable identity/self-concept. An INFP greatly cares about their values, principles, and identity–but can be unsure of them, trying out wildly different philosophies, lifestyles, etc. from a young age over a lifetime.

Sign you may NOT be INFP: You struggle to juggle multiple perspectives and consider them equally and simultaneously. If you intuitively find it most natural to want and be sure of one main probability of how things will pan out, you might be ISFP, ISTP, INFJ, INTJ, ISFJ, ISTJ.

Sign you may NOT be INFP: If you naturally strive to dominate over your emotions, you may not be INFP. Many INFPs gravitate towards wanting to deeply understand and experience emotions, taking them seriously. They can champion the importance of valuing this unseen inner realm.

Bottom line: It’s hard to type ourselves accurately, even after doing the MBTI test (we’re all biased). Much patience is needed. Knowing you're an INFP, you can accept your scattered nature and perfectionism when it comes to “finding your highest principles and living by them."