An INFP embraces "wimpy"

Hi Vicky Jo,
 
I'm pretty sure you remember my comment about me not wanting to be an INFP because they're wimpy and you wondering about that.  Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but after talking with a couple of friends -- one I've known for more than 24 years (who, by the way, said if she had heard the description for INFP from someone else she would have thought immediately of me because it fit me like I was the one they had used to write the description from) -- I discovered that although I am seen from the outside as self-confident, I have experienced myself as wimpy (changing my mind a zillion times and having a terrible time making even the simplest decisions sometimes), so I felt that admitting I was an INFP meant I had to accept that I was wimpy.  

I realize that's not true -- I truly do!  Living with INFP for a couple of days and then talking with my friend was an eye-opener.  What she sees is someone who knows exactly what she believes, and I will not make a decision about anything until I'm sure it fits and is "right" with me.  That's exactly how I feel on the inside, but the world says you need to make decisions based on objective facts (so the way I make decisions is wimpy) -- which is the absolute last thing I would do! 

So now I can say I'm really energized by discovering I'm an INFP and really proud to call myself one!  I wear the "title" with delight and honor!

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So is this INFP habit of dis-owning "wimpy" due to a fear that it fits, but is socially unacceptable and a source of shame?  Maybe it's the "inferiority complex" showing up?  I wonder...