Is there anyone else who completely changed when they realized they were an INTP

[Scourgexlvii]

Really, I only started worrying about my nonexistent social life and my lack of confidence in my convictions, once I took the test to determine I was an INTP. How about everyone else? Also do you think that in this case Ignorance is bliss (i.e. worrying about it only makes it worse, and more apparent) or that it's the first steps to fixing some inherent personality faults?

 

[Kuu]

What? You're worrying MORE? When I learned about it I was so relieved, I nearly stopped worrying at all!

Wether ignorance is bliss or not is irrelevant now... you have the knowledge and cannot unlearn it. So just use it for the better.

 

[Ombat]

I became more social and expressive towards people to REBEL against my INTPness. Take that, I said.

But I did become more comfortable with myself. More =/= anywhere near completely, though... unfortunately...

 

[nickgray]

Nope. But when I first learned about normal distribution a couple of years ago...

 

[Felan]

For me I think I truly believed I was not of this planet nor of humanity. The revelation was accompanied with a mixture of annoyance, shock, relief, and bitterness at my non-uniqueness. I envy those who come to this knowledge early.

Being an INTP has strengths and weaknesses. Its not a matter of fixing flaws, but finding ways to apply your strengths. Be aware, open, and honest about your weaknesses and they won't haunt you over much.

 

[Döden]

Type is still questionable in my case, so it's become a bit of an annoyance. I pour over my old writings and journals to see how I was before I tested (seems like it's more reliable) and always end up confoosed.



I must be an INFP!

 

[Zero]

I have my ups and downs with the knowledge and the society.

I was, at first, relieved to have a system that could work for personality. Yeah, that probably changed my life. It wasn't so impossible anymore.

Then I realized what an INTP was....
Basically, just a nerd I guess. Maybe more of a geek.

 

[tashi]

Not a huge amount of change for me.
I definatly felt as though I'd had a huge burden lifted from my shoulders. Finding out that you're not an alien, that you're not the only one, was very encouraging.
Perhaps I'm a bit more reckless, because seeing so many genuinely interesting people who have similiar problems to my own, made me think that maybe I don't have to fix all my problems to be sucessful, maybe I can just try and focus on my stronger points for a while. This made me become much less concerned with my social life, and apathy boasted my confidence, so any effect has really been mostly positive.

 

[Nicholas A. A. E.]

Taking any kind of assessment related to behaviour or personality is somewhat more difficult now, because I have to stop myself from intuitively jumping on possible answers because "hey yeah, that's what INTPs do"

 

[Cogwulf]

It made me much more relaxed and comfortable with myself, before I took the test I always used to wonder if it was some sort of a personality disorder making me this way

 

[Melkor]

I feel that the INTP forum and the typing itself became like a mirror into which I could stare at will, without fear of the consequences.


I found that I grew to dislike myself more, and not just aspects of my behaviour, but also of my person.
But I don't feel as though I hate INTP, I rather enjoy it.

It was the exterior factors, the ones which class us as individuals among fellow INTP's, that I came upon while studying, and these, not the INTP-traits, that led to this dysfunction.

 

[EditorOne]

I'm with Phelan, Cogwolf and Melkor, self-knowledge was all-empowering. Like Phelan, I wish I'd been exposed to MBTI when a lot younger.

"You're not insane, you're supposed to be that way." Somebody on here said that in a previous discussion along these lines and whoever it was, that's about it. How could it not be a relief?

A very attractive woman, by the way, told me recently that "Geeks are sexy" in which I started out a conversation by apologizing for being too geeky for the social circumstances we were in. Wasn't a come-on from her and I'm not bragging, I'm just putting it out there that maybe times are changing.

 

[snowqueen]

Type is still questionable in my case, so it's become a bit of an annoyance. I pour over my old writings and journals to see how I was before I tested (seems like it's more reliable) and always end up confoosed.



I must be an INFP!

You, me, Seducer, Brain (come back!!) all toy with the idea we must be INFP. Personally I only have to spend 1 day on the INFP forum to be cured of that delusion. YMMV

It made me much more relaxed and comfortable with myself, before I took the test I always used to wonder if it was some sort of a personality disorder making me this way

yeah me too.

A very attractive woman, by the way, told me recently that "Geeks are sexy" in which I started out a conversation by apologizing for being too geeky for the social circumstances we were in. Wasn't a come-on from her and I'm not bragging, I'm just putting it out there that maybe times are changing.

I am still waiting for the man who says 'highly intelligent, logical women turn me on, let's get it on'.

Interesting new avatar E1

 

[EditorOne]

Interesting new avatar E1

Two-word explanation: Halloween costume.

I didn't have to stretch too much ....

I'll leave it up until my hair grows out grey again. Rinse, dye, aren't they the same? Ah, um, nope.

 

[Dormouse]

You, me, Seducer, Brain (come back!!) all toy with the idea we must be INFP.

So that's normal and not just me? Oh good.

And to parrot what somebody else mentioned, MBTI has kinda been a self-fulfilling prophecy for me. I have to stop myself from indulging in certain behaviours 'because it is the INTP way'.

 

[warryer]

I suppose I felt a bit more sense of belonging to something. It's not perfect but it's something.

It seems to me that the lack of social life and confidence in one's self is because we take to heart what society says is right/wrong. This to me seems really strange because confidence comes from within. Or maybe its that we base our confidence on whether we have a social life?

I know I feel like absolute shit when another Friday rolls around and I don't have anywhere to go. But then I wonder why does it matter? And if it does matter so much why don't I do something about it?... It's probably because it doesn't matter so much.

Anyways, my point is that the INTP label gives our 'weirdness' a social qualifier. Hey it's ok for me to be this way because this is just how I am. Not many of us have the luxury of finding this out on our own because our "type" is so rare.

 

[snowqueen]

So that's normal and not just me? Oh good.

And to parrot what somebody else mentioned, MBTI has kinda been a self-fulfilling prophecy for me. I have to stop myself from indulging in certain behaviours 'because it is the INTP way'.

I think when I first found out I did kind of revel in the INTP characteristics I'd always felt I'd had to suppress or which I found guilty about. I've sort of got over that now and am finding it more interesting to develop the parts which are less 'natural' to me which I actually want to develop (as opposed to those I had felt obliged or pressured to develop previously).