INTP shit you did as a child

[Andropov]

I remember in middle school we had to do an assignment for English where we picked a person from history to spend a day with and describe that day in essay form. I picked Hitler and my essay consisted of playing golf and bowling with the Fuhrer and ended with a nice dinner in Red Lobster. Nothing about the Holocaust at all was mentioned. I thought it was fucking sweet as hell because the point was that Hitler is just a normal guy and it was also well-written if I remember correctly. I was really proud of it but got a U. The teacher thought I should've done more research on Hitler and thought I just picked a name and went through a normal boring day. She didn't understand the point. I didn't even bother explaining it to her.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Hahaha.
I'm not sure what typical INTP shit is though. I'm always late at school which gets me into ridiculous trouble(It's just 2-15 minutes, who gives a fuck. It's just really hard to get up knowing you're going to do the exact same boring stuff at school as the day before...)
Ehh... Things I remember from my childhood:

Drawing a santa claus Hitler. Oh and drawing a lot of dead and tortured people, drawing pooping and urinating animals, drawing ghosts and skeletons... Uhmm... Writing in my exercise book my teacher was a child abuser...

Taking a poop behind someone's car with a friend, shooting berries at some girls' window. Secretly watching documentaries on discovery my dad was watching at 11 pm when I shouldn't have been awake through the window in the door leading to the living room from the stairs, then rolling down the stairs and my dad being really surprised... Throwing my cat down the stairs to see if he would land on his feet(He did! The saying was true, and don't worry, he didn't get hurt.)

Pfff, more stuff.... Erm... Burning and experimenting with ants and other insects, but mainly ants. Oh I also fought a lot. And I beat up my best friend once because we were playing 'police and thieves' and he was a thieve and I got so much into my role I started becoming a little scary to everyone.

Now I read this all back... It sounds pretty fucked up all, was this normal for a child to do? Was it all INTP in the first place?

 

[Lobstrich]

Andro, how is what you did "normal INTP shit" as far as I'm concerned all you did was write something with a clever backthought. Is it the part where you don't bother to explain that makes you an INTP? Well then I'm not an INTP. I wouldn't stand for having my assignment missunderstood completely like that.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Where do I begin?

 

[Solitaire U.]

Had a habit of walking home before the school day was over starting in second grade.

Nearly got kicked out of school in 4th grade for refusing to say the 'pledge of allegiance', which caused a bunch of other kids to stop saying it too (not my intention).

"Solitaire is extremely bright, but he is often more interested in debating with me over the importance of the work he's been assigned than in simply completing his assignments." so sayeth my 6th grade teacher.

 

[Architect]

In the GATE program caused horror when, in answer to the question "what do people spend money on", I answered "Their jobs". Bad Architect, you're not being gifted OR talented, thats how you MAKE money. Naturally I was considering that job is a major expense usually, you have to travel to it, dress for it, eat while at it ... idiots, I quit soon after.

"Architect has trouble focusing" was on every report card until college. They sent me to a psychologist who had me play with jacks and walk on a balance beam (not sure what that was supposed to do.) Later I got into the third best grad school for physics, had a few different careers and became financially independent at an early age. Suckers ...

I could go on and on ...

 

[Lobstrich]

"Solitaire is extremely bright, but he is often more interested in debating with me over the importance of the work he's been assigned than in simply completing his assignments." so sayeth my 6th grade teacher.

Wow.. I've heard that one countless of times.

 

[Joohanh]

I was a real troublemaker. I was constantly kicked out of class in primary school, sent to addresses and psychologists. Heh, each time trouble found me I promised myself I'd start to act good, only to find myself breaking windows the next day, et cetera.

I went through a pyromaniac phase when 12, used a lot of alcohol when 14-15, and finally ended up the way I am today after getting beaten up while drunk.

 

[MoonPhantom]

It`s quite paradoxal that almost all of INTP people I`ve heared yet seemed to be either hyperactive or with some head-strong traits. But I guess it is absolutely normal and quite avarage during the childhood years.
I was a little different when I was still in the kindergarden. I learned to read very early and from that on I became interested in nature and animals. Just not in that "oh look, what a cute doggy! I love doggies!" way. I loved to study their habitats, their hunting/feeding methods and so on. I even learned a few latin names of certain animal breeds. I carried books to my kindergarden and showed them to my mates, tried to explain how a Brachypelma Vagans feeds, but they were mostly just interested in pretty pictures xD
And then, during the school years, everything changed. I turned into that hyperactive phase and would simply do the same shit an avarage child/teenager would do.

 

[CrazyTalk]

I remember when I was about five I started hiding in closets, pantries, hampers, etcetera sometimes for hours. My mom was really nervous about me doing that. She just was unable to believe me that all I was doing was thinking. Ended up in therapy for awhile because of that.

 

[final-dimension]

Kindergarten: I didn't have any friends *except for those my parents made me befriend* always played alone with puzzles or tried to start conversation with the teacher *or what do they call them?*.
School: Reading books the whole day about animals and the human body even at home I wouldn't stop reading. And when lights were turned of because it is time to go to sleep I would use a little secret light to continue reading until I fall asleep.
My old friend from the first grade even told me that when the bell rang to announce the end of the break I was saying "yippie ich werde etwas neues lernen koennen" or " yippie finally I can learn something new".When my teacher calls my name I would respond after calling me three or four times she thought I was making fun of her,actually I just don't notice when someone calls my name when I am thinking.

 

[Abraxas]

I remember when I was around 4-5 years old and in day care. There was this new kid, around the same age I was. I thought it was a good idea to take the new kid with me and show around town... so I persuaded the new kid to break out of the play ground with me. Eventually we wandered off quite far from our day care and the kid started to worry. He decided he would head back to the play ground so he stood up and pointed his finger to a random direction and said to him self: "The play ground is that way." and he disappeared into the distance. Ofcourse I knew that he went the exact opposite way. I remember thinking it was hysterical how that kid had absolutely no clue of our whereabouts. Around 10-15 minutes later I decided to head back to our play ground only to find that all the old hags that were supposed to take care of us had noticed our abscence from the play ground and that seemed to really piss them off. So they started to seriously harras me about the new kids location. At the time I honestly had no idea why the adults were so upset with me. I remember thinking that the kid was around my age, so he must know his way around town just like I did (I was quite an explorer back then. The police was searching me every other week.). Luckily the kid showed up with some other kid's parents who had spotted him near by. The town population was around one million, but at that time I had no idea of the possible consequences of a 4 year old wandering the streets.

-Edit- I thought I'd add that the next day the new kid didn't show up at the day care I was on.

 

[Cogwulf]

Most children build pretend forts and kill invaders. I used to build a human body and pretend to be a white blood cell killing bacteria. I think I was about 10 or younger.

 

[Joohanh]

Believe it or not, but I was the fucking man in kindergarten. I somehow (don't ask me how it started, I really can't remember) established my own "party", in which I was the dictator. Everyone 4-6 years old had to join. I controlled like 30 kids. I even had a chain of command involving some of my friends. Then one of my friends started his own party, and we had gangfights when it was outdoor playtime.

And no, I'm seriously not making this up.

 

[final-dimension]

Believe it or not, but I was the fucking man in kindergarten. I somehow (don't ask me how it started, I really can't remember) established my own "party", in which I was the dictator. Everyone 4-6 years old had to join. I controlled like 30 kids. I even had a chain of command involving some of my friends. Then one of my friends started his own party, and we had gangfights when it was outdoor playtime.

And no, I'm seriously not making this up.

Haha that is funny. ^^

 

[Jennywocky]

In high school physics, I brought in one of those little McDonald-land toy cars, where you set it down, draw it back on the ground to "wind it up," and then let it go and watch it zip everywhere.

The teacher was so fascinated, he and me and a boy in my class sat at a back table and took it apart to figure out how it worked, while the rest of the class had study hall.

I also would go to the library with a shopping bag each week and come home with it full of books -- all of which i would read before taking them back the next week for more.

I used to build a human body and pretend to be a white blood cell killing bacteria. I think I was about 10 or younger.

That's totally wicked.

 

[Abraxas]

Most children build pretend forts and kill invaders. I used to build a human body and pretend to be a white blood cell killing bacteria. I think I was about 10 or younger.

I used to play the exact same game around the age of 7-9!

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Had a habit of walking home before the school day was over starting in second grade.

Nearly got kicked out of school in 4th grade for refusing to say the 'pledge of allegiance', which caused a bunch of other kids to stop saying it too (not my intention).

"Solitaire is extremely bright, but he is often more interested in debating with me over the importance of the work he's been assigned than in simply completing his assignments." so sayeth my 6th grade teacher.

Sounds very familiar, yes. Actually, all of the stories in this thread sound familiar. God I love you guys and this thread. No, I have not taken MDMA. Just in a good mood.

 

[azerty007]

It took me 9 years and 7 different schools just to get through high school.

At one school they decided to stop giving me detention because there weren't enough weeks left in the school year.

But luckily in the end I found a school where they wouldn't try to command me and everything went ok from there on.

Was several times described as apatic and they thought I was on drugs (which I wasn't).

Some of my teachers still say that in their 20+ years of teaching they have never had anyone similar to me.

Made several teachers cry during discussions, especially when they start argumenting in an illogical or subjective way.

I am not proud of all this in any way... (well, maybe a little bit )

 

[Dimensional Transition]

So... May I conclude out of all of this that almost all INTPs are quite the troublemaking eccentric students?

 

[MoonPhantom]

So... May I conclude out of all of this that almost all INTPs are quite the troublemaking eccentric students?

Don`t want to speak for everyone here, but I do think that at least the "eccentric" part fits perfectly.

 

[Cogwulf]

So... May I conclude out of all of this that almost all INTPs are quite the troublemaking eccentric students?

I was always too shy and reserved to question authority

 

[Da Blob]

I was reading on the high school level by the second grade, but the bitch, that was the local librarian would not let me check out any books at my reading level. She said that the only way I could check out books from the adult section, is after I read every single book in the children section. So I read every single book in the children's library - it took me about 6 weeks, if i recall. Of course, during that six weeks I was also reading the 'adult' books my mom checked out for me...

God - I hated school... With one or two exceptions, I believe my IQ was twice that of my "teachers" and i knew more about some of the topics they 'taught' than they did...

 

[NoID10ts]

Is an INTP child's shit different from other type's shit? I mean, mine had corn in it sometimes or it was green from too many Apple Jolly Ranchers, but other types eat corn and Jolly Ranchers, right?

 

[Bird]

I remember when I was around 4-5 years old and in day care. There was this new kid, around the same age I was. I thought it was a good idea to take the new kid with me and show around town... so I persuaded the new kid to break out of the play ground with me. Eventually we wandered off quite far from our day care and the kid started to worry. He decided he would head back to the play ground so he stood up and pointed his finger to a random direction and said to him self: "The play ground is that way." and he disappeared into the distance. Ofcourse I knew that he went the exact opposite way. I remember thinking it was hysterical how that kid had absolutely no clue of our whereabouts. Around 10-15 minutes later I decided to head back to our play ground only to find that all the old hags that were supposed to take care of us had noticed our abscence from the play ground and that seemed to really piss them off. So they started to seriously harras me about the new kids location. At the time I honestly had no idea why the adults were so upset with me. I remember thinking that the kid was around my age, so he must know his way around town just like I did (I was quite an explorer back then. The police was searching me every other week.). Luckily the kid showed up with some other kid's parents who had spotted him near by. The town population was around one million, but at that time I had no idea of the possible consequences of a 4 year old wandering the streets.

-Edit- I thought I'd add that the next day the new kid didn't show up at the day care I was on.

What kind of "town" consists of
a million people..? That's a little
bigger than a town.

 

[DarkGreen]

I knew I was advanced when I was a child because I couldn't tell when I first began to read like I couldn't tell when I first began to breathe. My abuela didn't know this, she just thought I was a big trouble maker but I wanted her to stop shouting, "Brujita!" at me whenever I cranked the crazy up. So, I decided to be a prophet from God. My abuela like every other old spanish lady was anal-retentive about going to church and praying. I could already read spanish and english so I dressed in a white sheet headed down stairs with a spanish bible and plopped it on the table where she was sitting and reading something. I raised my fists to the heavens and started reading a passage from the biblia and then I rolled my eyes up into my head for effect. My grandma started crying and praying, "Me alma te llavas!" or something. She stood up and sat down over and over like a colicking horse. I couldn't help it, I laughed. It sounded wicked even to my ears and my grandma thought I was posessed because she ran me up to my room and locked me in til my dad came home. I totally got the vieja to leave me alone for a while though and convinced my dad that she was crazy. These were my elementary school days.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I was always too shy and reserved to question authority

Eccentric, then, at least?

 

[onthewindowstand]

I started a pretend cult. I called it "glee" and it actually was still a joke and something kids would do as a senior in HS.

In reality it was just me making a parody out of a lot of the absurdities in life. As a result my nickname growing up was the gleeman.

 

[Bird]

When I was five I guessed the *exact*
amount of m&m's in the jar.

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

I ask my parents 'Why was the sky blue?' But I found their answer to be insufficient. I'm afraid 'because it is' just doesn't make the cut.

 

[Agapooka]

Hmm, I didn't get to cause too much trouble, because we moved around a lot and I found it difficult to make friends from scratch all the time, especially since I like to know a few people well.

This meant that in elementary, when we moved again when I was 8, I started becoming more reclusive and in school, because of this and the fact that I was physically smaller than average, I was teased quite a bit. This caused me to see the subject matter, itself, as an escape method. I did very well at school at that time.

Then we moved again and I started 7th grade. I remember always testing limits. Exploring constraints and exploiting their full potential is something that I've always found fascinating. I was very introverted, and people just knew me as "the weird kid". I'd do my own thing in a lot of classes, especially math. It reached a point where I ignored the teacher and found my own way of figuring things out. I never did my homework. I never studied. I used to read a lot. I experimented with PHP and a friend and I hacked a forum and ran a script that reversed everyone's posts. The script froze somehow, though and it stopped halfway, so we couldn't run it again to reverse its effects. *sigh*

Going further back, though, and still today, I enjoy making things with snow. I've only gotten more sophisticated, although I have less time on my hands. Last year, I made a quinsy with a perimeter wall and staircase, but provided I have the time and the snow, I plan on making a tower with two floors and a roof. :P

I used to accumulate static when dribbling in basketball and then shock people. It was the only pleasure I gained from the sport, because I was short and nobody wanted me on their team.

Agapooka

 

[TylerRDA]

"Solitaire is extremely bright, but he is often more interested in debating with me over the importance of the work he's been assigned than in simply completing his assignments." so sayeth my 6th grade teacher.

What if Einstein just completed his assignments and never wondered what he would see when running along a beam of light? Thank goodness I'm in higher education where such debate is encouraged ^.^


After my Physics teacher expressed her frustration at my contradicting all the rules, I did an (invalid) proof that disproved Newton's Second Law , and she bought it. 'Twas one of the greatest moments of High School. Not an INTP thing, but it sure is an NT thing.

another favorite:
"Stop trying to find the reasons behind everything. Just accept Biology as it is"
"The field of Biology was born through such inquiry."
"Uh, no, it was through the Scientific Method"
"And what part of the Scientific Method involves 'just accepting it'?"
"...sit down or I'm writing you up for insubordination"
It's great to give unintelligent teachers the cerebral bird.

 

[Dormouse]

I was quite the quiet obnoxiously friendly child. I never got into trouble, as I was secretly terrified of everyone.

Even if I'd had balls as a kid, I doubt I would have acted out. There was little reason to. I did wonderfully in school, well enough that the teachers let me read through math class so long as I kept up the pretense of hiding it.

I built a spaceship out of a cardboard box, once, and drew the planets on this long piece of paper so that it would look like movement as I pulled it by the window. I wrote and illustrated picture books to give people as gifts.

Then, I discovered the internet, and every ounce of creativity was sucked from me as I sold it my soul.

 

[Taniwha]

Not sure whether it counts as baby INTP behavior, but apparently when I was a toddler, one Sunday I was so bored with the church sermon that I shat myself all over the church and left. I don't remember the event but my parents were told to leave the church after it.

It must of been a shitty service.

 

[The Gopher]

Well apart from inappropriately correcting adults when they mispronounced words, reading faster than most adults (and subtly letting them know it) and testing three years older in mathematical problem solving I was a normal eccentric shy INTP.

 

[Architect]

Not sure whether it counts as baby INTP behavior, but apparently when I was a toddler, one Sunday I was so bored with the church sermon that I shat myself all over the church and left. I don't remember the event but my parents were told to leave the church after it.

It must of been a shitty service.

Awesome. I did something similar once. I got so bored during a service that I started walking back and forth at the back of the church. Back, and forth, over and over again. I wanted to kill myself I was so bored.

Another time I was so bored that they had these two converging lines to go up to the altar, and just to mess around I held up my line and then a few hundred people go at the next. Finally some mom stopped her kid from going ahead to let me have a turn. I just wanted to torture them all.

Wish I had the defecation idea also.

 

[Moocow]

I built robot kits and brought them in for show and tell in elementary school. I also got things like microscopes and eye witness science books as presents.
I recall looking at a booger under my microscope and being disappointed at the apparent lack of microscopic complexity.
I also broke things a lot trying to take them apart or fix them.

Uhh, and crying a lot when forced into social situations at school, or parties, etc.

Speaking of church, I drew a doodle of a mountain with god at the top, and tons of dead stick figures lining the mountain with one on its knees flipping off god in one last moment of desperation.
The idea that prompted it was being told "You die if you see god." My mom got really mad at me for that picture.

 

[Nocturne]

Hmmm... After reading this, it kinda' makes me wonder if I am really an INTP after all.
My childhood years consisted of the following.

1. Kindergarten: Refused to become friends with anyone except for this one girl who is totally opposite from me.
2. Worked diligently, but cursed the teachers and complained at the end of school.
3. "Was mean" to everyone in third grade, so everyone hated me by the end of the year.
4. ... ... Read ALOT of books over recess.
5. Currently is in Grade 9: Classmates avoids me.

*sigh* Are INTP's suppose to be something like this?

 

[pjoa09]

spent early childhood with books
went on to drawing my own types of t-rexes
discovered baking soda and vinegar in the kitchen
discovered PS1, PS2 Hooked on that
became a basketball addict
got bored and moved on to newspaper bon fires
i was hooked on that for a while
then i dared to spray paint on the newspaper then things got real fun
i sometimes do it still
now i drive fast with a slow car and draw stuff for fun

i am just an intp with dopamine related issues.. i think.

my grades used to decend like a plane in a microburst.

 

[Minuend]

I don't think I did anything too unusual. Didn't like kindergarten, so I misbehaved. I was eventually taken out of there. The first years of school I was "normal", I think. Except when I beat other children who annoyed me. My parents applied for me to begin school earlier as I am born in January and did well in theory, but it was declined due to lack of social skills. Ironically, that made me more isolated as all my friends were one year older than me.

I did enjoy documentaries about animals and I had folder where I got various pages with information about different animals. I also sometimes pretended that I was in a documentary about snow tigers or something similar.

 

[SpaceYeti]

My mother and wife use this as an example of how literal you have to be with me/ how dumb I can be. When I was in middle school, I was told to put clothes from the clothes-washer and put them into the drier. I got yelled at for not turning the drier on. I keep telling them that my mom said nothing about turning it on, but that's where they say I was wrong. They say if something goes in the drier, you turn it on. But mom said nothing about turning it on! Come on!

 

[Anchorite]

In Kindergarten, when one kid took my chair to stand on to reach a high shelf (for a 5 year old) I went up behind him, grabbed the chair and began to pull it away, back to my desk. The sub went ape-shit and yelled at me. But you know what? Fuck her, he stole my chair.

In fifth grade I got yelled at on a daily basis, but my teacher got yelled at more.

Other than that, up until fifth grade I was just horrified of all other human beings aside for my mom most of the time. I didn't talk to them and I expected to be left alone.

 

[Abraxas]

What kind of "town" consists of
a million people..? That's a little
bigger than a town.

My excuse is that I'm not a native english speaker. Besides I thought that in the big world anything smaller than New York City was considered at most a town.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

My mother and wife use this as an example of how literal you have to be with me/ how dumb I can be. When I was in middle school, I was told to put clothes from the clothes-washer and put them into the drier. I got yelled at for not turning the drier on. I keep telling them that my mom said nothing about turning it on, but that's where they say I was wrong. They say if something goes in the drier, you turn it on. But mom said nothing about turning it on! Come on!

Haha. Exactly. "Do you want me to do more than you said? Alright then this means I can do whatever I want."

There are positives and negatives to having the command-execute style of communication/understanding. You don't notice what people implicitly allow you to do because you're too focused on explicit instructions and statements. But then again you can't be reprimanded for not following instructions.

 

[Panopticon]

When I was a toddler my mother took me to the doctor because she feared that I was deaf. She said I would not respond to her as I was likely too deep in my own little thoughts to notice.

When I was in elementary school I would usually decorate my work folders with violent pictures of people getting shot, electricuted by lightning, decapitated.....anything bloody.

I too used to throw cats on the ground to see if they land on their feet. In Fact, I would grow increasingly frustrated by their ability to constantly land on their feet.

Sometimes when I would be at recess in the playground, I would stare up at the sky at moving objects greatly fearing the demise of humanity.......thinking the comet and astroids that i heard about on the news were coming. Ugh, tv news.

I would always be completly bored in class. I used to think maybe I was stupid, but later realized I am just quickly bored with things that are easily understood, in addition to everything else about school that doesnt gel with an INTP.

 

[Glordag]

I would attempt to play pretend, but then get frustrated with the lack of realism and attempt to make the ideas reality.

Examples:

• Trying to design a blaster from the Megaman video game series using diamonds and a hatch release.
• Researching plants and herbs in order to produce actual healing treatments for pretend jungle quests.
• Examining methods to strengthen mud to produce durability in dirt fortresses.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

When I was a toddler my mother took me to the doctor because she feared that I was deaf. She said I would not respond to her as I was likely too deep in my own little thoughts to notice.

When I was in elementary school I would usually decorate my work folders with violent pictures of people getting shot, electricuted by lightning, decapitated.....anything bloody.

I too used to throw cats on the ground to see if they land on their feet. In Fact, I would grow increasingly frustrated by their ability to constantly land on their feet.

Sometimes when I would be at recess in the playground, I would stare up at the sky at moving objects greatly fearing the demise of humanity.......thinking the comet and astroids that i heard about on the news were coming. Ugh, tv news.

I would always be completly bored in class. I used to think maybe I was stupid, but later realized I am just quickly bored with things that are easily understood, in addition to everything else about school that doesnt gel with an INTP.

ARE YOU ME?

The fear of comets and stuff... So recognizable. Damn you TV. I was constantly afraid of mega volcanoes and comet rains.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who tested out cats' ability to land on their feet and drew bloody, sick drawings for an 8 year-old.

 

[Lullaby]

Every day I used to sit on my driveway and burn the tar with a magnifying glass to see how hot it was. I'd also burn the ants and several leaves, without a care in the world. I carried a magnifying glass everywhere.

I got my first toy; It was a telescope and I completely took it apart. I kept on removing things... replacing... just to see if it could improve.

I'd wonder what a cloud felt like, seriously, I'd stare in the sky for so long, just wondering what they felt like.

Like some others here, I threw my cat off the balcony (don't worry, it wasn't very high) and he landed on his feet. I continuously did it and I jumped off to see if I would land like that. I was imitating the way my cat landed. Not a good idea.

In class I already knew everything the teachers explained and it was so boring, I'd sit in my chair and stare out the window all day.

I went to school a year early than the expected age, so I was picked on for being so small. Of course, I didn't care. They were all self-obsessed simpletons anyway.

I hated my teacher in year one so I stole the blankets and books from 'rest time' and made a blanket fort near my chair. I just sat in my chair, reading the books.

Took my Pokemon games everywhere and when my teachers took it they put it in their desk only to find the game and their phone gone.

Continuously moved classes because of lack in participation in group projects.

 

[Struggling_Bee]

If this counts:

Some point after being told that kids come from their mothers, I was curious how we were like our fathers then. I asked my parents. They laughed and told me something to the extent of "go google it".
I did.

(I didn't understand anything though.)

 

[Awaken]

When I was about 7 or 8 my battle with insomnia began as tried to figure out why at night there were always weird floating colors that were not there during the day, or how incredibly dangerous the assumption of infinity was. I could not fathom why infinity was a concept that people seemed to believe in unquestionably. So I would just lay in bed every night trying to figure out the above questions(and others).