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Maria Bamford MBTI Personality Type

Maria Bamford MBTI Personality Type

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What personality type is Maria Bamford? Maria Bamford is an INFP personality type in MBTI, 6w7 - so/sp - 649 in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.

INTP and INFP are really similar to me, but in my opinion as an INFP, this is what distinguishes me from the INTPs that I know: INTPs are very funny, often in a "I never thought of it that way" kind of way. Not to say INFPs can't have unusual insights, just that INTP perspectives tend to take society's view and turn it on its head like an alien or scientist would. Maria's humor feels more Fi-ish, the jokes are about human idiosyncrasies, and fully embodying it, down to her just standing on a stage making fart noises for several minutes. Sometimes the human idiosyncracy is straight up hypocrisy and makes people uncomfortable, but she feels it's important to bring it up regardless, like casually dropping how many hundreds of thousands of homeless people there are in LA, making the entire audience go quiet. Underneath INTP soft vibe is a baby Fe that is even softer and more gentle that manifests as very proper knights trying to do right. Underneath INFP soft vibe is a data-obsessed, impatient person, which I see more in Maria's self-professed love of structured conversation and filling out matrices. Te loves to externalize and organize knowledge, while Ti deduces internally in a less visible way. Of course, you could argue that Maria Bamford is similar to Tina Fey who is typically typed as INTP in that both women do stand-up comedy with quasi-moralizing humor and copious fart jokes. But the vibes do feel slightly different. Fey is very "nerd trying to be human" and in her 30 Rock persona at least is depicted as someone who is unaware that they are not being very nice sometimes, while Bamford is exceedingly, over-the-top sensitive and nice to the point of complete discomfort and self-flagellation, which could reflect the relative positions of their feeling functions.

Biography

Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and voice actress. She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedy involving jokes about depression and anxiety.