I'm ENFP...one of the rarer types. Rationals, NT and Idealists, NFs are a bit rarer.
I've had my whole family typed by a psychologist...but they're pretty much what I guessed they were.
Me-ENFP-I'm always tilting at windmills, that's probably the best way to describe the "advocate" or the "champion"personality I'm blessed/cursed with. ENFPs are generally considered either idealistic nutbars or insanely entertaining by most other people. I'm a little of both. My kids call me "Robin Williams with boobies". As a child, my parents were horrified when I'd get up on the table and tell jokes and sing to guests. I have a Traditional mother (ISTJ) who makes Martha Stewart look like a piker at homemaking and an Experiencer father who just plays golf constantly now that he's retired and that's pretty much his religion.
They used to ask me a lot if I wasn't adopted. LOL Seriously, I was so different from the rest of my family, (I have one Experiencer brother ISFP, just like my dad is) my dad would turn to my mom and ask her, "Do you remember where we got her...are you sure we brought home the right kid from the hospital, it was pretty busy that day?" Kind of a running family gag.
Yes, my mother and I are total opposites...which probably caused her no end of frustration. She still doesn't get me, and probably never will. We spend a lot of time talking about knitting and cake decorating, the few hobbies we have in common so we don't get into arguments over dirt.
My ambition is to be a writer who actually gets paid for writing, but I'm going back to college soon to finally finish a psych degree and maybe nursing. Probably both. I vant to help ze people on ze couch vit zer problems and tings.
Hubby-ISTP-yes, opposites attract, but that common "Perceiving" keeps us pretty mellow. We don't disagree too much. The "mechanic" type, my husband could fix the space shuttle if they'd let him study it a while. He's a natural engineer. A master plumber by training. He's working as an all purpose fix it man for a big rental company at the moment and loves fixing crap all day. Sounds like purgatory to me, but he loves it. *shrugs*
Oldest daughter who is 20. INTJ- LOL...she says she's the Spock to my Captain Kirk...(those fictional characters represent those two personality types pretty well) She's a very talented comic book artist who worries about the universe a lot (she draws dark angsty vampire goth stuff, not happy silly cartoons...she thinks Batman is just too damn cheerful). She has perfected the "roll your eyes at mom" thing after 20 years of practice. I remember when she was a year old, I had the distinct thought...boy this kid is nothing like me. And I thought it was great. Also interested in forensic science. I detect a "queen of the undead" theme here.
Son, who is an Aspie, by the way, so I don't know how that affects type if at all, who is 17- INTP...a total inventive dreamer, artist, computer geek. If he could build an android and marry it...he'd be happy as a pig in mud. Loves technology more than anything. Also has a very weird sense of humor and does a thousand voices...he can imitate nearly anyone he hears. We beg him. "Now do Arnold in "theTerminator"" and he does it perfectly. Actually, my daughter draws cartoons, they get together on the story boards, he animates them and does the voices...we may have a little Disney studios thing going here in a few years.
Youngest daughter, 14, is ISFJ, poor child. She probably feels like she's in a nuthouse, being the only Traditional. She and her dad just ignore us insane intuitives and go fishing a lot...LOL She's a natural with animals, and has trained our dogs to form a pyramid and recite Shakespeare...LOL well...pretty close. She's The Dog Whisperer Jr. Wants to be a vet tech...I think she'll be great at it.
