Hi, I am so glad to have found this forum, I hope I haven't joined @ a low check in time, as I would like to connect with more like minded pple. I am a female, 35 year old community activist from London, England.

I'm going through a very self imposed focus n introspection of my life/views but forever looking for a new adventure/person to get lost in..I know you can mostly relate to that as that's true of an INFP person..

I look forward to learning lots here to expand my self awareness.

Hi there.

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Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hello and welcome locs4eva

I'm also in my 30s (still only just!) and in London (Crystal Palace). Whereabouts are you based?

*cries out loud* Shuuuuuuuuttt up Pipster, I'm in South Norwood. What are the freaking odds of that?! Briiiiilllliant! Have there been any London meet ups?!

NO WAY!!!

(Note to non-Londoners: these suburbs are next to each other )

I fell asleep on the train on the way home the other night, missed my stop and ended up at Norwood Junction where I got off and went to the handy Co-op. What's with the unexpected branch of Peacocks tacked on?!

There have indeed been London meet ups, but not because there are stacks of Londoners who post here, more when other UK INFPs happen to be passing through town. But there would be no need for that if we are neighbours!

How long have you known you are an INFP and how did you discover MBTI?

Hey Pip,
Norwood Junction is literally mins away so I am familiar with area, tho have been so blind, that have NOT noticed the Peacocks. Imagine that. For those that don't its a womens fashion shop (like Target for the USA heads)..

Re: Profile, I came across the term/test a few weeks ago via someones blog whose forthrightness I admire, who identified herself as an INFP, of course I had a a-ha moment..and been semi-obsessed with finding out all I can, as the more I discover, the happier, relieved n vindicated I am that my quirkiness isn't random..and my quest for purpose/joy/fulfiness is normal.

Re: Meetups, We're neighbours now..if its do-able, we make it happen.

How has discovering this forum enhanced your life?

Hey Locs4eva and welcome! That is so neat that you and Pipster live near each other.

Sciski..thankyou for the welcome!

Welcome to you Locs4eva!

This sounds so familiar - I'd probably use almost exactly the same words to describe how I felt upon discovering that INFPs existed, that I was one and that there was nothing wrong with me. And from what other people have said, this seems to be a very common reaction.



A bit of INFP forum history for you in order to answer this one: back in around 2005 (that's when I found it anyway) there used to be an INFP forum called infpglobalchatter (variously referred to as INFPgc, globalchatter or just GC). It had many more members than we do here, a lot of them from a slightly younger age group, and was quite active and busy - there were always new members and regulars who came and went.

Towards the end of its existence infpglobalchatter ceased to be actively moderated and began to experience a lot of spam, trolling and so on - you could describe it as going through a period of forum ill-health, and that was when sciski, concerned that it may just shut down one day, started this forum as an alternative place for the INFP forum community to go should this be the case. Globalchatter did eventually shut down after being hacked in (I think) autumn 2009, and here we all are today

Anyway... I did most of my INFP questioning and figuring-out via the other forum so by the time we moved over to here, I had mostly done all of the who-am-I-as-INFP introspection that is so typical of what happens when we find out our MBTI type. I suppose we're all at different stages of our journey so please do feel free to ask any questions or start any threads about things you want to talk about... that's why we're here!

History aside - discovering INFP forums (or should the plural be 'fora'??) enhanced my life in a number of ways:

- I finally felt validated, accepted, and like there was nothing wrong with me - I was just unusual, but now I knew why.
- It was wonderful to find a place where I didn't have to bloody well hide so much of myself just to fit in, and to be able to let this out safely; specifically at the moment I am thinking of what everybody else calls deep. I'm sick of being told I am deep, or more importantly, 'too deep' - well not around here because everybody is deep and what's more, we celebrate it!
- I have met some amazing people who I would never otherwise have met, and made some good friends;
- Via INFP meet ups (including one international one - the trip not planned specifically as such!) I have become friends in real life with some of the lovely people I have met via these forums.

I'm sure there are more things - I will mention them if/when I remember