Heyy love🥰 I wanted to ask how do you differentiate between INFP and ISFJ in characters, especially when they’re 9w1? I’ve had the most trouble differentiating these two types in some characters.
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MBTI is literally how a character functions. Enneagram, on the other hand focuses on what motivates them to react in a particular manner.
In your case, an INFP will first and foremost would always decide using Fi. All their decisions would have some emotional meaning to them. And these emotions are personal. Fi users rarely have that need to explain what they feel.
ISFJs, would use Si instead. As dominant perceivers, they’re first instinct would be to find similarities between what they’ve seen and what’s right in front of them.
So first, narrow down on how they navigate through their surrounding. Do they, try to function in their surrounding based on what they’ve experienced before and then try to classify it ? Or do they judge it based on what they feel about it, and try to function/take action ? Asking these questions should help you find their MBTI types.
9s tend to ignore their anger. And among the 9s, 9w1 is extremely passive. They repress anger and beat themselves up even further when they act on it, due to their 1 wing. They would pretty much do anything except feel the anger and act on that. Due to this tendency of theirs, a lot of people can find them extremely passive, rock-like, very peaceful, lazy, etc. They do this cause they think what they need or feel, due to their surroundings, has no importance. Not in your typical 2 sense, but more like: “if I keep my needs, emotions and feelings to myself, people around me would have a better time. They already have a lot going on with them, adding this would only make the situation worse.”
9s usually have a really good childhood (which makes them think that the less unfortunate have more rights to complain than they do, cause they’ve always had that comfort) or a messed up one where they’re forced to take care of their surrounding (in this case, they end up thinking that they’re feelings, if voiced out, would make the situation worse for everyone, and therefore ruin the mood). So they shut up to enjoy the mood and ignore they’re anger or focus externally and help others to ignore they’re inner rage that would bother everything.
So add this to their mbti type. ISFJs, being the type to help the most, would pretty much ignore how much they must help themselves and try to sort their environment. They, in literal sense, would embody selflessness. Eiji from Banana Fish, pretty much does this. He see Ash, he likes him, he completely ignores how much trouble it puts him through. He’s solely focused on how Ash feels, how much he has to save Ash from this horrible environment ( see, he does consider it horrible, but doesn’t care about his position in it). He pretty much ignores his anger towards this world and tries to protect Ash how much ever he can, however is too passive to do anything.
INFPs would pretty much try to shut down the inconveniences caused by their Fi. They would start thinking about how much their feelings can affect the situation around them and then try suppressing what they feel. Since, they pretty much suppress what they feel and want, they would outwardly do things that they want for their peace. Kaneki is a great example of this. He’s an INFP who pretty much doesn’t want to deal with his emotions, his anger and his inner turmoil. Due to this, he focuses externally and helps people around him. But every action that he does, stems from his own emotions. He cares about what he feels more than anything else, but refuses to deal with it. In fact Tokyo Ghoul is literally about Kaneki’s suppressed anger and how, from a state of non-existence, evolves and takes different form, due to his negligence of accepting and dealing with it.
