The Shut-In Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of The Shut-In? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for The Shut-In from Tropes and what is the personality traits.
INTP (5w4)
The Shut-In personality type is INTP, which means they often display a desire to create and build.
These people are often called ‘the builders’ because of
the way they love to build up logical structures and systems.
In the world of the INTP, there is no such thing as
a ‘quick fix’. If a problem exists, it must be solved, and
that usually involves building something new in place of
something old, or changing it in some way. As the builders,
they often decide that a problem exists which they are not
solving. This is when they shut down and withdraw from the
world around them. It is not unusual for them to shut themselves
up in their apartment or home for days or weeks at a time.
Sometimes people who live with INTPs will say that they are
not seeing them for weeks or even months. They have told their
friends that they have moved away from their home country and
have never returned. Usually, when this happens, those friends go
to the apartment or home to see if their loved one is there and will
It's not the least bit uncommon for people to avoid going outside in Real Life, and fiction follows through by giving us an assortment of house hermit characters. They tend to come in three flavors:
(https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheShutIn)
