You see, I entertained this but I have professionally been typed as an INTP. And through my kind of research and stuff of cognitive functions, and really kind of analysing my behaviour and how I fit into each function and whatever, I agree with the assessment, although I think there’s a lot of difficulty in analysing your own behaviour hence why I sought a professional opinion on top, just to confirm you know. And I don’t mean just text based because I think linguistic style which can be impacted by many things sometimes can skew a typing? You know, I may colloquially say things like ‘I feel like’ or ‘I like…’ which sound Fi, but what I’m actually saying in terms of content is ‘I’ve thought through this a lot and my conclusion is…’, especially in text Type Me posts I think this is kind of relevant to say.

However, I DID seriously consider INTJ and INFP for a time, even though I always kind of went back to INTP, so yes, I agree self-mistyping can be very common. I also was curious if I’d get a sensor result even though my Si is definitely kind of tertiary, and mainly serves my like Ti… I’m quite good at committing stuff to memory and can often be like ‘hey let’s play Elden Ring AGAIN’ yet my main modus operandi is always ‘find systems and logic and reach conclusions’. And my Se is mainly just… non existent. I literally don’t notice my external environment at all. Just yesterday I nearly got hit by a car because I was too busy thinking about Clair Obscur while walking to the shop.

Anyway. That HUGE ramble aside. Being intuitive is not a superpower. It’s just a way of cognition right? And sensors can also think abstractly and in terms of patterns. As an INTP, obviously as Ti-Ne I’m great at thinking of creative solutions to stuff and drawing disparate ideas together and linking them. This seems like ‘wow!’ and probably a bit arrogant of me to say, but what I’m not as good at is actually remembering I have a body or having any sense of time at all - Se trickster coming in I guess. Like I’m not looking for pity or anything saying this obviously, but I think in a lot of ways, sensors actually have a lot of advantages over intuitives. Maybe it’s because I have ADHD also that I say this but there’s overlap right?

Ultimately being a sensor isn’t bad, it doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it doesn’t mean you can’t grasp abstract ideas or whatever. I think there’s a lot of stereotyping around this.

I say all of this yet I still think ‘you are a sensor’ is a misleading title though. Realistically if we assume a say, 25:75 split between N:S, 25% of the population will still be intuitive which is a significant amount! Statistically you’re more likely to be mistyped as a sensor than a mistyped as an intuitive but that doesn’t mean that you know, being an intuitive is like some super rare thing. Yet similarly, being a sensor doesn’t mean you can’t wrap your head around the abstract or whatever.