16personalities played a huge role in mistyping myself. I tested as ESFP at first, and that was the spark. I starting reading the descriptions. Huge mistake. I started unconsciously skewing my test answers toward ESFP, feeding my confirmation bias. I got more ESFP results. It kept growing. I found the cognitive functions. Oh, dominant Se? There are tons of things in here that arent’t really me, but I’m going to try to find any little thing I can fit into and then expand this for more evidence toward ESFP. I discarded everything that went against it. I saved everything that supported it. It kept building and building to the point where I was going crazy. But as time went on, the things that didn’t apply to me started eating at me insane, because they were popping up everywhere and I couldn’t ignore it. When I started posting more honest type me descriptions, answering more honestly on tests, being more honest with myself while researching.. I started getting more xNFP results. I wanted to just find a solid answer so I decided to go meta and just write a whole NOVEL about it and post it everywhere. It was as honest, detailed and genuine as I could get it. After stepping back, I realized that I‘m really not an ESFP, I’m nowhere near dominant Se, and it was quite silly to think that for such a long time. A lot of people helped me realize this, and then find which one I really am. I’m so happy to be out of that rut and actually accept something that fits me. My ESFP bias was getting unhealthy, and now that I’ve found me true type and let go of that loop of questioning my ESFP facade over and over and over again, I’ve been a whole lot more “myself” in real life, less aloof and scattered, less withdrawn and confused. I’m reading a lot of the stuff on here now, talking to more people about it, and everything about ENFP just clicks now. The Fi, the extraversion, the Si tendencies, I feel like this type accounts for almost everything, and I don’t have to try to fit into it, it just fits. No cherry-picking certain articles, reddit posts, behaviors like I had to do to be even close to ESFP. I even relate a lot more to fictional ENFPs, the ones in real life, and even here on this subreddit a whole lot more than ESFP.

Anyways, I just thought I would share this with y’all. I’m just so excited!