This precious little man of mine is an INFP. When I realized what his personality was, I told my friend, Jerry Hurley, also an INFP, about it. He responded laughingly, “I’m so sorry.”
If you are curious about those four CAPITAL letters and want to know what in the heck I’m talking about, I’ll tell you. Those four letters label someone’s personality according to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. If you’d like to take a test to find out what your letters are, click HERE.
I took the test years ago and found out that I’m an ESFJ and the Hubby is an ENTJ. And we’re raising an INFP.
Sweet Jesus.
Here’s the gist of the letters:
E/I – Extrovert/Introvert
S/N – Sensing/Intuitive (How you take in information)
F/T – Feeler/Thinker
J/P – Judging/Perceiving
Basically, Noah is an introvert who is very intuitive and feels very deeply but could really care less about anything organized. And for this spreadsheet-lovin’ momma, that’s just not right. But, we absolutely adore him and believe that he, in his INFP world, will bring just as much importance and joy as any ESFJ or ENTJ would. We know he’ll be a world changer for Christ.
If you know what your letters are, do share!
I’m an INFP too…it is indeed very hard for me to grow up in my world where everyone seems different from me,,,and the hardest thing is that I am gay…it would be okay if this is accepted by my community but it is not..being an infp and gay at the same time is very hard..the thing is i don’t conform to anything i don’t believe this puts much conflict to me…for ur son i can say give him enough freedom..for an infp freedom is our food…
I’m also an INFP man, and my 10 year old son is also INFP. I see so much of my own behaviors in him, both the good and the bad. I know he feels isolated and lonely sometimes, different from everyone else, but fortunately he has a best friend who he clicks with. Unfortunately, his best friend is home-schooled and thus he only gets to see him on the weekends and at karate in the evenings.
Even at 10, he is interested in girls and says he wants to get married one day, but is pessimistic about his chances, thinking girls will all find him “weird”. It can be hard for an INFP man to find a woman who appreciates him, I was 25 before I met my wife, who was also my first girlfriend.
There are a lot of good things about being INFP, though, and I think it is a neat thing that my son has an INFP dad who “gets” him.