You know you're an Intp when...

[Jesse]

1. You write in your head hugely complicated stories that you know are never going to get written down.

2. You listen to music so people don't think your weird when you stare of into the distance for hours.

3. You have been dumped before you knew you were in a relationship.

4. You have been told you talk much without even saying a word. (I roll my eyes every time someone say that to me)

5. You get up from the computer, immediate having to go the bathroom and being very hungry.

6. You are an expert in a subject that will never ever require use

 

[EyeSeeCold]

2. You listen to music so people don't think your weird when you stare of into the distance for hours.

3. You have been dumped before you knew you were in a relationship.

5. You get up from the computer, immediate having to go the bathroom and being very hungry.

6. You are an expert in a subject that will never ever require use

2. All the time
3. I'm pretty sure this happened
5. It's like my bodily functions are turned off until I get up >.<
6. Sadly...

 

[Melkor]

You started this thread in the hope that a few, trustworthy people would respond and no more, and where rather put off when it became too popular.

 

[shoeless]

for the record, she could have easily been high. why, i did that very same thing just today in fact! except i was on a bus. it was awkward.

 

[kukadoo]

(bullet point) When your room's deco consists of piles of books
(bullet point) when you are reading more (many more) than one book at a time
(bullet point) when you keep notes from books you are reading
(bullet point) when you plan to write a super book but keep putting it off because there is so much information you still need to consider

 

[Insanity's Spokesman]

When debating something with your self is more satisfying than debating it with anyone you know.

 

[Coolydudey60]

26. That you feel no affection for people in films, even in the most sad moments.

 

[nexion]

26. That you feel no affection for people in films, even in the most sad moments.

It's just because I know it isn't real.

 

[dark]

1. You write in your head hugely complicated stories that you know are never going to get written down.

2. You listen to music so people don't think your weird when you stare of into the distance for hours.

3. You have been dumped before you knew you were in a relationship.

4. You have been told you talk much without even saying a word. (I roll my eyes every time someone say that to me)

5. You get up from the computer, immediate having to go the bathroom and being very hungry.

6. You are an expert in a subject that will never ever require use

3. many times this has happened, is something wrong with me?
5. I have trained my body not to bother my mind when it is working, mind>body, or so it seems.
6. Very trueish.

- You find that time is so slow when you mind is being underused, but then when it gets to finally start, time just decided to jump ahead and wtf just happened to the last 10 hours?

- You think daydreaming should be a national pasttime, and they should have a daydreaming competition in highschool, and daydreaming teams in college.

- Decide to go to sleep but realize it is not worth the effort so you stay up longer than you should, inevitably using more energy and more effort...

- When everyone around you thinks you think you know everything, but you understand how much you don't know, and no one will believe that you don't think you know everything. Or is that just one for me?

 

[Jesse]

- Decide to go to sleep but realize it is not worth the effort so you stay up longer than you should, inevitably using more energy and more effort...

I do the sleep thing to. Why go to sleep when you can do anything else? But during the day I'm tired and need sleep. I hate that I activly have to try to sleep to get to sleep. It should be easier.

- When everyone around you thinks you think you know everything, but you understand how much you don't know, and no one will believe that you don't think you know everything. Or is that just one for me?

I am sick of this. Just because I know more than you does not mean I know everything. Especially concerning computers. I am not super smart at computers I just know how to use GOOGLE.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Especially concerning computers. I am not super smart at computers I just know how to use GOOGLE.

Lol, so true.

I have started to say no to people that want me to fix their computers. My success has not been determined by my mechanical/technical skills, but my diligence. Projects are intellectual challenges for me, not a service I have been tasked with. Damage to your property may result from me using unconventional ways to solve the problem.

 

[dark]

I love google.

 

[Jesse]

That is such an awesome pic of the computer, although how old is it, at least 1998.

 

[nexion]

I love google.

I once told my mother that I legitimately could marry Google, and I must say, she was legitimately disturbed.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I didn't want to make a new thread for this so I'll add it here.

...others become frustrated because you hide your work in progress until you have the complete and perfect product which is free of incompetency.

I noticed this with my English assignments. I've never liked doing drafts and revisions. How can you criticize my work when it is not finished? It won't reflect my true abilities.

 

[nexion]

I didn't want to make a new thread for this so I'll add it here.

...others become frustrated because you hide your work in progress until you have the complete and perfect product which is free of incompetency.

I noticed this with my English assignments. I've never liked doing drafts and revisions. How can you criticize my work when it is not finished? It won't reflect my true abilities.

I don't write drafts.

 

[Gunnarsson]

...others become frustrated because you hide your work in progress until you have the complete and perfect product which is free of incompetency.

I noticed this with my English assignments. I've never liked doing drafts and revisions. How can you criticize my work when it is not finished? It won't reflect my true abilities.

Anything I do is a work in progress all the way until I loose interest and abandon it. Others may call it finished, I just add it to my long list of unfinished projects...

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

I don't write drafts.

I never did either. I found it too awkward a way of organizing my thoughts.
In cases I had to turn in a draft, I did it after I wrote the paper.

 

[dark]

Don't know if this is an NTP thing but:
- When you pass college calculus one with an A minus, but never once took an algebra class, then decide to take an algebra class, and realize why you made mistakes in calc, and that most of your logic was spot on.
- When you tell people about the above and they say you are crazy and you thank them.

 

[dark]

- When you read things other NTPs have said on forums and wonder, "Where are all the cool people around here?"

 

[Joohanh]

- When your sexual fantasies have to be strictly logical and plausible in order for you to ever enjoy them. Complex backstory is important, as are multidimensional characters providing valid reasoning and justification for the act.

 

[Glordag]

- When your sexual fantasies have to be strictly logical and plausible in order for you to ever enjoy them. Complex backstory is important, as are multidimensional characters providing valid reasoning and justification for the act.

lol!!! This is so true :P.

-When too many thoughts completely inhibit your productivity, but you don't consider the heaps of books, clothes, projects, and various assorted items scattered all about to be of any consequence to said productivity.

-When you make a bullet point about productivity and then laugh at the thought that you have ever actually been productive.

-When you write bullet points about productivity instead of actually doing something productive like sleeping or practicing guitar .

 

[Dimensional Transition]

-When you correct your teacher in class but your teacher regards your points as stupid and illogical, he/she laughs, and everybody looks at you like you're crazy. While in fact you just think they completely misunderstood what you meant and think that it's perfectly logical. You are right and the teacher is wrong.

 

[Deridaburi]

-When you correct your teacher in class but your teacher regards your points as stupid and illogical, he/she laughs, and everybody looks at you like you're crazy. While in fact you just think they completely misunderstood what you meant and think that it's perfectly logical. You are right and the teacher is wrong.

Sooooooooooooooooo true.

 

[nexion]

-When you correct your teacher in class but your teacher regards your points as stupid and illogical, he/she laughs, and everybody looks at you like you're crazy. While in fact you just think they completely misunderstood what you meant and think that it's perfectly logical. You are right and the teacher is wrong.

Short summary:

You are right and the teacher is wrong.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

When you meticulously calculate the most efficient route when grocery shopping, while taking extra caution to avoid people who know you. You're not above hiding behind merchandise and other people in this endeavor.

and whenever you're out in public and hear 'Hey <insert your name here>!' you mentally cringe, feeling like a deer in headlights.

silly extroverts, can't we just ignore each other? or can't a smile/nod suffice?

 

[Fukyo]

When you meticulously calculate the most efficient route when grocery shopping, while taking extra caution to avoid people who know you. You're not above hiding behind merchandise and other people in this endeavor.

and whenever you're out in public and hear 'Hey <insert your name here>!' you mentally cringe, feeling like a deer in headlights.

silly extroverts, can't we just ignore each other? or can't a smile/nod suffice?

How do you know you live with a Fe dom? When you tell them about your approach and they let you know what a disappointment you are. -_-

 

[EyeSeeCold]

while taking extra caution to avoid people who know you.

 

[nexion]

When you meticulously calculate the most efficient route when grocery shopping, while taking extra caution to avoid people who know you. You're not above hiding behind merchandise and other people in this endeavor.

and whenever you're out in public and hear 'Hey <insert your name here>!' you mentally cringe, feeling like a deer in headlights.

silly extroverts, can't we just ignore each other? or can't a smile/nod suffice?

Very true. All of it.

 

[Booko]

Somebody will need to collate this, eventually.

My suggestion: Convince an INTJ to do it for you.

#?? People ask you all the time why you're grumpy when you're just thinking.

 

[snafupants]

You treat the mental replay of a conversation with more seriousness than the actual one.

 

[SQ_Minion]

...you can't remember whether the conversation you had with someone actually happened or was imagined.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

...you can't remember whether the conversation you had with someone actually happened or was imagined.

Haha yes. Life for me = reflections. I's like I have no control over my life because I'm only active after something happens to me.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

You treat the mental replay of a conversation with more seriousness than the actual one.

Haha this

 

[Marovan12]

1. When you are reading a novel and try to classify the characters' personalities.

2. After a few hundred pages you put down said novel and label it as "bad", because you couldn't classify the characters' personalities and concluded that the author sucks at creating characters and such author doesn't deserve your time.

 

[Deridaburi]

- you think about thinking, about thinking, about thinking, about thinking, until well you eventually realize you're thinking about thinking, then you can't get the idea of why thinking about thinking is going on in your mind, so you start to analyze what thinking is only to find yourself back in the loop.

[I've spent about 3 days in that loop, seriously sucks, don't think I ate or even slept well. Or is that just one for me?]

I think I've been in this loop my entire life.

 

[Deridaburi]

When you smile(smirk), laugh, say nothing, and are prideful when someone tells you that "you're the weirdest person I've ever met".

 

[Glordag]

When you smile(smirk), laugh, say nothing, and are prideful when someone tells you that "you're the weirdest person I've ever met".

I wish people would do this more often. I love it. I like it much better when I can read my own dialogues or ideas into people instead of having to watch them screw up the mystique .

 

[nexion]

I just realized I think almost entirely in science, math, and philosophy.

Epic.

 

[Jean Paul]

17. You confuse everyone around you with words far too long for casual conversation.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is my favorite word

 

[nexion]

17. You confuse everyone around you with words far too long for casual conversation.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is my favorite word

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.'" A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.

From the all-powerful Wiki.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

you are calm when others are panicking.

 

[Jean Paul]

From the all-powerful Wiki.

 

[nexion]

English is too eloquent and vague.

 

[Jean Paul]

I know it is, i'm just here to alieve boredom.

 

[MunkySpanker]

1.You uphold the beleif that it is possible to be perfectly social wihtout actually speaking.

2.More often than not, you bow your head while walking, and are an expert at 'crowd dodging'

3. You indulge in, and are quite renowned among friends for, making completely random, yet very accurate observations.

4.You think about the very thing which you are not doing.

5.If wikipedia was a person, you would marry it. If possible, you would download the internet into your mind.(and have probably tried)

6.You frequently entertain the thought that you can make peoples heads explode simply by concentrating pure hatred on them.
Or at least, you wish it were so.

7.You often fantasise about being part of a wordlwide virtual reality, or becoming an all powerful demigod,or something of the like.


8.When sitting on any public chair which has more than one sight sideby side, you kindly make sure that your dearest -whatever you're carrying- has a seat to itself.

9.No-one* finds you funny but yourself, and despite this, you are always trying to make clever jokes that no-one gets.

10.You have spent a whole night of not sleeping, pondering something, and then after asking someone about it the next day, realise that you're the only one which seems to care.



Feel free to add more.








*Okay...so maybe some people do get them..but only the ones you don't want to laugh.

...I'm not the only one who 9's or 10's... wow!

I care about your post.

 

[MunkySpanker]

Social Nonconforming 1: Not responding to "hey how are you?" in the office place, with an effort.

Instead of the obligatory "hey how are you" "fine how are you" "good thanks" waste of 30 seconds of my fucking life, repeated about 10 times for every coworker you see between the hours of 9am and the rest of my fucking life...

instead.

I say. "good." and keep walking. Pretty soon people understand what I'm doing and just stop asking.

What I would LOVE to say once would be:

"dude look, I'm not doing that well, not that you even cared. But I obviously don't care how you're doing, seeing as though I never ask, and the fact that you keep asking me shows me how much of a nit wit you are. But if you'd really like to know how shitty I'm doing, it will take more than the 5 seconds of air time we have passing each other going to and from to the men's room."

or alternatively this is what you do if you don't want to come off as a weird asshole

spot the offender from farther away than he/she can talk

time it perfectly so that right before they say the putrid words "hey how are you..." right immediately b4 this you counter attack quickly with:

"Hey! Good Morning!"

It's quite an innocuous device. One that does not even beg a response. But it will allow you to glide quickly by without feeling the forced obligation of responding to a question. Nip it in the bud. Don't let THEM speak FIRST!

NEVER!

FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM William Wallace! FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOMMMMMMMMMM

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I never ask others how they are doing, it's the funniest thing.
Also, I agree with the greetings.

 

[gruesomebrat]

- When you find an forum for INTP's, and promptly spend the next 3 and a half days glued to your computer, laughing at the posts on said forum.

- When your parent/gaurdian asks why you're laughing and you just point at the post 'cause you can't talk through the laughter, and then your parent looks at you and asks what's so funny about that, 'cause they didn't understand the post, much less see anything funny about it.

- When you read 24 pages of posts about how you know you're an INTP, agree with 75% of them, and then wonder how all these people know you so well, since you can't recall meeting any of them irl.

 

[gruesomebrat]

...I'm not the only one who 9's or 10's... wow!

I care about your post.

I can't help but agree with you. It's great when you find out you're not the only one who shows what all your friends call neurotic behaviour, isn't it??