What are you?

There are many forms of the test available, the most reliable being one administered and evaluated by a psychologist, though you can take a short form one online at 16personalities.com. The short form is not always accurate, though for me, regardless of the test I took, my results were always the same. My test was administered and evaluated by a psychologist and we discussed ways that I could better integrate into the ‘normal’ world. One thing that was suggested and that I still use to this day is keeping a dossier type document about the people in my life. I don’t do well with small talk or remembering details I deem unimportant (or as I call it, not worth the brain space), so to ensure I’m able to manage personal relationships, I keep a spreadsheet with everyone’s names, addresses, birthdays, anniversaries, kids names (and birthdays) and then notes to include likes/dislikes, hobbies, etc. He also suggested that to help fill gaps in conversations to use fillers like “that’s interesting” to accommodate extra time while I am thinking of an appropriate/socially acceptable response since ‘that’s interesting’ can go either way, my final response isn’t locked in to a tone.

While you are assigned one of the letters for your type, it’s actually a scale with your assignment being the higher of the two. So, you may score 19/20 on Extraversion and receive an E, someone else who scores an 11/20 may also receive an E, but be a little more introverted than you. This is one of the ‘issues’ with the test and some have compared it to categorizing all people in Obese (O) or Anorexic (A), without accounting for those that fall in between as “normal”.