My therapist asked me the other day if I am on the Autism Spectrum. She was joking, I guess. I looked to see if there is a test, and there is:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html
I came out with a 32 which is a sign of autism. Who knew?
People are surprised to find me stock still in a room not moving for minutes at a time. I am thinking about something. But I look like a lizard I guess to others, and it freaks them out! Once I stayed still for ten minutes while thinking and my whole family was looking at me and one even snapped a pic. It's freaky! Plus I often talk out loud to myself when this happens! But I must be high functioning because I have a job, and am well liked, and am paying all my bills.
I wonder if this makes me more likely to be a five. Do fours do this? I have never been able to decide between four and five. I have deep feelings, but they just don't show very often except when I am with someone that I love and trust. Otherwise, I think I seem to have no feelings at all. But I do have them all the time. But the most difficult thing is to have a schism in my thought process when I can't understand something. I get paralyzed and stand still and repair the schism until I have a new understanding. Do other INFJS experience themselves as suddenly still as a lizard, looking inward, and going over something in their minds until it makes sense?? I have done it for up to an hour. I am just not available during that time. I try to get to a place where I am not seen, and then suddenly - process. It might take only two minutes but during that time, I can't participate in daily life. It might take an hour or more, and during that time, other people might see me, but I can't see them.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html
I came out with a 32 which is a sign of autism. Who knew?
People are surprised to find me stock still in a room not moving for minutes at a time. I am thinking about something. But I look like a lizard I guess to others, and it freaks them out! Once I stayed still for ten minutes while thinking and my whole family was looking at me and one even snapped a pic. It's freaky! Plus I often talk out loud to myself when this happens! But I must be high functioning because I have a job, and am well liked, and am paying all my bills.
I wonder if this makes me more likely to be a five. Do fours do this? I have never been able to decide between four and five. I have deep feelings, but they just don't show very often except when I am with someone that I love and trust. Otherwise, I think I seem to have no feelings at all. But I do have them all the time. But the most difficult thing is to have a schism in my thought process when I can't understand something. I get paralyzed and stand still and repair the schism until I have a new understanding. Do other INFJS experience themselves as suddenly still as a lizard, looking inward, and going over something in their minds until it makes sense?? I have done it for up to an hour. I am just not available during that time. I try to get to a place where I am not seen, and then suddenly - process. It might take only two minutes but during that time, I can't participate in daily life. It might take an hour or more, and during that time, other people might see me, but I can't see them.
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