Quote Originally Posted by FoxOnStilts View Post
I attract IEIs like flies. Not romantically or sexually, but in a friends kind of way. We're both really chill and like to hang back a bit, and they I feel really accepted by them and that they don't care I'm a bit weird sometimes. They're good at making me feel accepted and okay to be myself. I don't know if it's where I hang out or how I hang out, but I make quick friends with IEIs almost instantaneously. We sit back and make snarky comments about everyone else or just chill and do our own thing.

Loooove IEIs. I always seem to write them off at first as "meh, that's probably not someone here I'll get along with" (I have the worst first impressions; I'll like the wrong people at first and write off the ones I end up being closest with) but then three months later we'll hang out often and they'll be one of the few people I feel comfortable actually calling up. I'm not good at social distance or knowing when it's appropriate for me to just call and ask if someone wants to hang out, so that makes me feel good.

All of the ones I know I met through school though. They're just so chill and I like that. Never has one been overdramatic with me or impossible to deal with. Sometimes it gets exhausting when they get indecisive though. It would be exhausting to have to keep the excitement up in a relationship (Se vs Ne, I imagine), but it's perfect for friends.
Interesting. One of my ideas on meeting INFp's was to actually discover what personalities they tend to hang out with most. I do notice them hanging out with ILE's rather frequently, actually. In fact, I saw one the other day and her ILE boyfriend had to prevent me from hitting on her...

Hmm, if I had to guess you probably meet a lot of IEI-Ni's.

Anyway something I learned from @lungs in another thread was that, a big difference that I'm sensing between IEI and SLE is emotivist vs constructivist.

When it comes to discussing business matters or topics that will advance my goals, I have absolutely no problem walking up to strangers asking them about things. However, when the goal is conversation for the sake of conversation... .then we have a huge problem. This is what I'm kind of scared of, so when I refer to CHURCH settings, I'm referring to an emotivist setting where everyone is there simply to meet one another. AWKWARD!

So in a sense I have to somehow overcome the emotivist barrier if I want to meet more IEI's. I know where they are, they're in emotivist situations that share my own interests... however, I almost never go to emotivist situations because they're awkward and scary.