I don't believe stereotypes are a good thing *but* they seem to
   be a reality that I can't avoid entirely.

   So I get around it by recognizing that there _may_ be *some*
   truth in the stereotypical labels thrown at me through the years
   and I have learned the ways in which I appear to fit vs where I
   actually *do* fit vs where I don't fit.

   Consider it in these terms:
   Scripts.

   Through life, we accumulate scripts we like. They can come from
   movies, from people we admire, from people we don't like.
   They're little little plays that we re-enact over and over again
   as we go through life.

   Someone says a particular thing, then we respond in a fashion
   that feels agreeable and then we carry on.

   But - what of what we said is actually "you" and what is part of
   a script you learned long ago and only feels like you?

   Example: I consider myself unique and an individual. Why do I
   think that? That's a way of thinking. That way of thinking came
   from somewhere.

   Scripts. I like the script where I play the part of the guy who
   is an individualist, that believes everybody is unique and a
   special sunflower that's been unrecognized by this harsh world
   we call home.

   I'm the perfect middle school guidance counsellor. In fact, on
   career tests, that often shows up as #1, and I can't argue it -
   I could be one tomorrow.

   But why? It's one of the scripts that suits me and that I follow
   unconsciously most of the time.   I'll give another example of
   how we can follow scripts and not even see it:
   You said:

   "As humans we want to put people in boxes but my brain just
   doesn't do that until I really know the person.

   Of course it makes sense, but it doesn't make sense coming from
   you. "

   Ask: Why doesn't it make sense coming from me?

   It's because I didn't follow the script there.   And now for the
   part that blew *my* mind when I realized it:
   EVERYTHING I JUST SAID IS ALSO A SCRIPT. It's because I read a
   book called Scripts People Play that was sitting on the back of
   the toilet growing up and was part of a pop psychology movement
   of the time:
   [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_script
   So what's me?
   Where am I?
   Damned if I know tongue emoticon
   And THAT - those last three lines, makes me fit the stereotype
   of the "typical INFP" - a stereotype I'm _mostly_ ok with
   sometimes tongue emoticon I like archetypes better than
   stereotypes anyway tongue emoticon Right there, I was playing
   the archetype or Trope of the "Wise Dad" from TV shows Who
   Explains It All. I'm not though. I'm just a guy sitting behind
   his computer typing in a facebook group.

References

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   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_script