INTP's Weird?

[HumidDesert]

Hey everyone! i recently took my MBTI test, and havent had the pleasure of talking to another INTP before, so you can imagine how shocked i was after reading a few threads. However, a stereotypical feature of an INTP is emotional numbness, and although i experience this strongly, I find myself unintentionally acting extremely strange at school. Partially because i enjoy watching peoples reactions, but its more than that. However i act normal (by INTP standards) when i am alone, with freinds or family, and usually at school. Its almost like Random outbursts of strangeness. Anyone else experience this? I am a 15 year old highschool freshman by the way. Thank you.

 

[LifeLine]

Me too. I seem to be rather apathetic and uncomfortable at school because I don't know the children and quite honestly, I don't like most of them. When you're with your family or people you enjoy being around, its different. You probably just feel pressured when you are around others.

 

[Fool]

I seem to have random outbursts of extrovertedness (yea, I make up words). Some people might see that as weird. I, on the other hand, love it. During these outbursts I say and do things I would never do otherwise.

 

[s0nystyle]

INTP's are not wierd, we're eccentric (AND YES THERE IS A FUCKING DIFFERENCE MMK?). Don't worry, people will love you for you eccentricities

 

[citrusbreath95]

I seem to have random outbursts of extrovertedness (yea, I make up words). Some people might see that as weird. I, on the other hand, love it. During these outbursts I say and do things I would never do otherwise.

I shall end up seeing that in the dictionary in 3 or so years from now , but yeah, I get these random outbursts as well, I suppose that is my source of "weirdness" (and my interests are different from the majority of my age group) but these outbursts do add some life, or entertainment to my day, especially watching the way people react to it. I think it also gives a bit of humor to others when the other part of the time I can be rather cynical, and reserved.

 

[HumidDesert]

Sweet, thanks guys. I also beleive that its partially me zoning out analyzing something, and when i return to reality excited about whatever it was, ive clearly lost track of the conversation and start sputtering about whatever it was. But at times its inexplicable, such as attempting to make a song out of the word Yumberry, after reading it on someones vitamin water bottle. By the way, am i the only one whose ever wondered about the smiley options on this forum? When am i going to say that the only way to describe what im feeling is with an animation of a smiley running back and fourth, seemingly terrified of flamingoes.

 

[Alice?]

INTP's are not wierd, we're eccentric (AND YES THERE IS A FUCKING DIFFERENCE MMK?). Don't worry, people will love you for you eccentricities

Nah, I'm just weird.

 

[nihilen.]

Me too, I hate eccentrics. Phony posers.

 

[Mello]

Eccentric>Weird People talk shit about how I'm "so damn weird." I would consider it being eccentric.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

Nah, I'm just weird.

Ditto.

 

[smegmaprotein]

hah i know exactly what u mean by random bursts of weirdness. i enjoy yelling insults at people outside my car window while driving around people. i also enjoying singing awkward songs at my rec centers pool and rubbing my manboobs together.

 

[nim]

This thread is just weird.

 

[Mary]

Hey everyone! i recently took my MBTI test, and havent had the pleasure of talking to another INTP before, so you can imagine how shocked i was after reading a few threads. However, a stereotypical feature of an INTP is emotional numbness, and although i experience this strongly, I find myself unintentionally acting extremely strange at school. Partially because i enjoy watching peoples reactions, but its more than that. However i act normal (by INTP standards) when i am alone, with freinds or family, and usually at school. Its almost like Random outbursts of strangeness. Anyone else experience this? I am a 15 year old highschool freshman by the way. Thank you.

I am a 15-year-old freshman as well. I enjoy behaving erratically to freak people out.
You are not alone.

 

[Cati]

Eh, we're all strange in one way or another. I wouldn't bee too worried about it.

 

[EditorOne]

Weird and proud of it. The advantage of weirdness is when something real-life weird happens, we're dealing with it and going "Meh?" while everyone else is running around like ducks in thunder.

And if you think of yourself as enigmatic, incomprehensible and unknowable, you'll feel a whole lot better.

 

[NeverAmI]

Weird is an understatement. I am the king (at least locally) of putting my own foot in my mouth, mixing incredibly witty/smart comments and incredibly dumb oversights and just general awkwardness.

Not quite so in written form, but my god, in person... However, I am WAY better than I used to be.

You know that whole eating with my family that has just met with another family and finding it interesting and mentioning that dentists have the highest rate of suicide among professions and everyone just stops eating and stares at me. I can't remember how it tied into the conversation but I SWEAR it did! I look back like... "You don't find that intensely interesting???"

It doesn't help that my humor is insanely sarcastic.

 

[420MuNkEy]

'Weird' is relative to what you consider normal.
Such a subjective idea cannot be broadly applied.

 

[Reed]

I'm with you completely on this. Most of the time I'm just quiet or observant, but then I'll have these random bouts of just being weird. Or if someone says something that bugs me I'll go off on them and explain everything in detail. They usually end up stop listening and gang up on me and say I'm wrong either way. They also say I'm strange or annoying for my random observations that no one seems to care about.

 

[Geminii]

Perhaps it's a mapping activity.

"In order to better understand the underlying structure of how a person or group operates, it'd be cool to see how they react to various inputs, particularly rare ones. Therefore -

BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!"

 

[cgoodmanparker]

I was always weird, I always considered myself weird, even as a grade-schooler. It is just a bare, simple part of my identity. I can't help myself from being weird, it would be very hard for me to act "normal." I never wanted to be like my peers. Sometimes in school I would deliberately do things that were intended to make people think I was weird. I never really knew why, it just seemed like the right thing to do somehow - attention-seeking behavior I guess. Now, I act considerably more "normal," within my capability (which has limits.)

 

[trisomination]

I feel weird all the time, you`re not alone I was emotionally numb before the half of last year, but now I have issues containing my emotions. Anyway, I don`t like to talk much, but I think this weird stuff. I rarely just blurt something out, so people just consider me really closed and always thinking or brooding:smiley_emoticons_mr
I also like to just annoy people by telling them how they feel. It`s really interesting to observe them and read their minds, sorta.
I`m a natural at reading expressions.

 

[Starfruit M.E.]

Just the other day, I went into school and was talking excitedly to my introverted friend about how the trees are singing and the bushes are yelling and how the grass is a huge army but people keep stepping on them and when you throw down grass seeds your putting down a bunch of grass babies with no adults around and sometimes the worms take care of them but other times the birds come and eat them or else they just lay there and die since nobody is taking care of them....

yup....

The theory one INTP profile I read had for this is that after we've been serious for some time we feel we've gotten too serious and feel a need to go crazy and enjoy our childish side for a while but then we can calm down and get back to business after we've been to that extreme for so long. So we flip flop. I think my childish side is more fun, but it feels really meaningless and stupid if I spend too much time with it. On the other hand, being serious all the time is not really any fun at all and it can be depressing. So it's good to keep a balance.

 

[HumidDesert]

How about this, wierd by definition of displaying an entirely different personality type than INTP when you are at school, but on the inside is a diehard INTP, but mostly expresses it when alone. ALso, i have noticed alot of anger problems we have on these threads, anyone when know why?

 

[DylanHead]

If you're weird, you're weird. If you're not, you're not.

I don't think it's a questions of 'type.' I, and i'm sure you, think many others (namely extroverts) are weird.

 

[StarmanSam]

I know how all of you feel. I've been oddly extroverted as of late. Oh well, it may help in the long run. Our oddities make us who we are right? I think that if someone wants to know us, they should know just how weird, and eccentric we really are.

 

[Eclectic_K]

INTPs are natural "personality Chameleons". With practice an INTP could almost perfectly mirror the qualities (and downfalls) of virtually every personality type. However, most INTPs are in general uninterested in the frivolousness of typical human interactions. For this reason, INTPs are more likely to use this ability to manipulate people for (particularly in my case) the sake of whatever twisted social experiment they happen to be doing. INTPs who have not refined their "mirroring talent" are often unwittingly manipulated by other people's personalities. I find that I am particularly effected by in strange ways by personalities with a dominate Fe (Extroverted Feeling) function. I do not have much experience with dominate Se personalities but I would imagine they could also have particularly strange effects on an INTP.
HumidDesert, Out of curiosity (although possible unrelated) do you often feel yourself consciously telling yourself to express particular emotions in particular circumstances even though you may not feel them?

 

[Wolf18]

Eclectic_K - I agree with you. I can mirror other personalities at will. I really enjoy it. It's all a game to me...
HumidDesert - I also experience emotional numbness. I don't really care though, although it certainly drives my friends crazy sometimes. I'm a high school s'more. Everyone else is being so emotional and annoying that I sometimes enjoy pretending to have a different personality. You're not alone. We'll both survive High School.

SW