You know you're an Intp when...

[DogChild]

...you refer to visiting family and friends as- "it's their turn to be maintained" I also read the dictionary.

 

[Litawyn]

5. If wikipedia WERE a person . . . [subjunctive]

(sorry, bad INTP habit . . . )

 

[Holy shit this makes sens]

I figured you out.

 

[Holy shit this makes sens]

I sat in my room for 5 hours today playing with kenex determind to invent a new shape and perpetual motion,

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I sat in my room for 5 hours today playing, with kleenex.

I read it as this, lol.

 

[addictedartist]

-when you join a seemingly random forum to post seemingly random things for seemingly random purposes. such as one liners like- everything is not what it seems.

-when your goal is to have a goal, or your task is to get on task.

-when your working you feel as if you are the only person whos ever done a days work, and when you are lounging you feel as if you are nobility and shouldnt ever have to work a day of your life because of the integrity of your excellence

-when your idea of a good time is when a plan comes together

-when your friends+family loves the same things as you, but you think you have the true deep connection they will never experience without your help. then you show them, you observe their reaction and gauge your initial opinions of that person, and hold on to that information till you can see what a 3rd party thinks, the 3rd party say exactly what you thought and then you tell the 3rd party how bizarre it is how people can share their thoughts with one another. then tell that person, that the subject really isnt that complicated and if they just show some effort then maybe they will understand but before they they lose interest...you already have. and you look for an excuse to explain to them they dont need to know this stuff, and how other things are more important and interesting while all they can think about is what you said, and the eagerness to pursue new avenues of life with a renewed spirit of adventure, and you go back to pwning n00bs

-when your intstincts are always right, but you dont trust their influence on your decisions because you are afraid of acting impulsively and subsequently impulsively decide to catagorize your intstincts so you can better tailor them to your desires.

when other people depend on you to be correct because they have taken your word on it

when you say dont take my word for it

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Spoiler

-when you join a seemingly random forum to post seemingly random things for seemingly random purposes. such as one liners like- everything is not what it seems.

-when your goal is to have a goal, or your task is to get on task.

-when your working you feel as if you are the only person whos ever done a days work, and when you are lounging you feel as if you are nobility and shouldnt ever have to work a day of your life because of the integrity of your excellence

-when your idea of a good time is when a plan comes together

-when your friends+family loves the same things as you, but you think you have the true deep connection they will never experience without your help. then you show them, you observe their reaction and gauge your initial opinions of that person, and hold on to that information till you can see what a 3rd party thinks, the 3rd party say exactly what you thought and then you tell the 3rd party how bizarre it is how people can share their thoughts with one another. then tell that person, that the subject really isnt that complicated and if they just show some effort then maybe they will understand but before they they lose interest...you already have. and you look for an excuse to explain to them they dont need to know this stuff, and how other things are more important and interesting while all they can think about is what you said, and the eagerness to pursue new avenues of life with a renewed spirit of adventure, and you go back to pwning n00bs

-when your intstincts are always right, but you dont trust their influence on your decisions because you are afraid of acting impulsively and subsequently impulsively decide to catagorize your intstincts so you can better tailor them to your desires.

when other people depend on you to be correct because they have taken your word on it

when you say dont take my word for it

I have to say that every one of these is accurate.

 

[Mary]

When you have memorized the easiest way to escape from a room so you don't have to talk to someone.

When you have considered permanently getting rid of your phone.

When you learn more at home, on the computer, than you do in school.

 

[Jesse]

Phones, I "lost" seven of them. Real annoying when I actually want to talk with someone though as I have to borrow.

When you realized before you go to bed and you have not talked to anybody and thought it a good day.

When people say something you know is completely wrong but you figure whats the point and just try to ignore the nagging in your head that wants to shout at the moron.

When someone mentions how smart you are even though you only impressed them by actually reading something and understanding it.

When your room is a mess but you know exactly where everything is but then after cleaning it you have no idea where anything is.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

you space out while you're spacing out.

 

[sandyhands]

948233958719458935. When part of you strongly wants to contribute to this thread and another equally strong part of you just doesn't give a shit.

(irresistable force vs. immovable object)

haha yes.
plus I don't feel like reading all of these to make sure I'm not being redundant.

 

[addictedartist]

when your idea of intp sexuality is, Fak tha system

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

x + 3: A 160 IQ is sexier then a 6-pack -- or for male INTP's, a double D rack.

The cheapest smile I've gotten in some time. Haha, that 160 I.Q.

 

[lagduck]

...you'd eat each piece of your meal separately rather then mix it all in your mouth. (or it's just me doing it so?)

 

[EyeSeeCold]

...you'd eat each piece of your meal separately rather then mix it all in your mouth. (or it's just me doing it so?)

!

I've been commented on for doing this. I don't know why it's so special.

 

[jesusfreak]

117. You've been called a sociopath, and have actually wondered if it was true.

 

[Nothing]

...you'd eat each piece of your meal separately rather then mix it all in your mouth. (or it's just me doing it so?)

I've been laughed at for this even though I didn't realize i was doing it until they pointed it out. For me the food on the plate also should not touch if I wanted my food to be mixed together i would have made/ordered that way.

 

[myexplodingcat]

"64. If you happened upon the Tardis you'd steal it with absolutely no doubt in your mind."

No, I'd wait by it for however many hours it takes him to get back, then follow him in. He knows where all the flippin' awesome stuff is goin' on!

#1,000,000: You regularly talk to your computer.
#1,000,001: You find that Weird Al's song White and Nerdy describes you perfectly, and the song Virus Alert gives you chills and goosebumps.
#1,000,002: You actually do know the real number that these are supposed to be, because you've read and counted them all.
#1,000,003: You've fallen asleep at your computer.
#1,000,004: You feel sometimes that your pets are the people who understand you the best. (Bonus points if you have a cat.) Gotta love cats.
#1,000,004: You can speak Klingon. (Don't know if someone has posted this before or not, sorry if it is)
#1,000,005: You have spent over seven hours at the computer without getting up to eat, drink, sleep, or go to the bathroom, partially because some of those functions don't require leaving your computer alone. O.O
#1,000,006: You know over fifty different smilies made out of letters. (Bonus points if you've trained Microsoft Word to do a few extra, or have figured out how to.)
#1,000,007: Emotional poetry/long strings of numbers? What's the diff? Neither makes sense.
#1,000,008: You look over a research paper you've compiled to check for faulty reasoning, citation errors and punctuation errors, and find that there aren't any.
#1,000,009: You're the Listener.
#1,000,010: You try something really niche that almost all other people in your age group would never think of doing, then when you've done it, you feel that it's not up to standards.
#1,000,011: You noticed that I split an infinitive in the last point.

---
I come from another dimension, where school food is actually good. *scream, faint*

 

[Bird]

#1,000,009: You're the Listener.

In my INTP relationships, I'm the listener.
Hmmm?

#1,000,010: You try something really niche that almost all other people in your age group would never think of doing, then when you've done it, you feel that it's not up to standards.

You know what the word "niche" means in
this context.

 

[myexplodingcat]

118. When you chose to risk your neck by questioning, critizing or correcting an INTJ's logic.

Actually, yes, have done that... it might be overkill to mention that this was an instance where I was editing and critiquing a novel she was writing...

Fortunately, she won't end up on an INTP forum. Did anyone else notice that for how "meh" INTPs are supposed to be about social networking, there seem to be more forums for them than for any other types? Oh. Wait. Other types actually spend time with each other in person. Never mind.

x+fish: you write novels and are crit partners with an INTJ, and can't help but admire her yet are slightly afraid of her... or him, it might be.
2x+fish: You're an M.C. Escher fan.
3x+fish: You know who Escher is, and you don't eschew him. (I know, that was a terrible pun.)
4x+fish: The only rap group you will willingly listen to speaks another language. *guilty*

Sagewolf, θ is a variable, not a number!

e^e: when you point out stuff like the above.

It's also the Greek letter Theta, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[myexplodingcat]

- you are able to recognize most typos while they're happening, and, as a result, the labels on your Backspace and Delete keys are worn very thin.

- , due to the aforementioned, you can, with some ease, backspace through an encrypted password (************) to correct it before hitting Enter.

When you don't need to hit Backspace because you've become so accurate that typos don't happen in the first place.

When you can type at seventy words per minute.

When you're thinking so hard about the topic that you come up with ten times as many ideas for posts than are actually on the board already, but don't post a lot because the others are so close to you that it's a legitimate concern that they're already posted.

 

[Jade Adagis]

When mentors don't last as long as a good stick of chewing gum.

Glad to find this place!!! I've never met another INTP in person - I guess great minds hide out alike.

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

You log back in INTPf at 6 am to fix a comma in an earlier post you couldn't get off your mind.

Fixed it.

 

[WastingTheDawn]

I don't know if all INTPs do this, or if it's just me. (My english may not be the best though, it's my third language)
I get really annoyed if I need to eat or something similiar when I'm in the middle of reading something I consider important at the moment.
I'm really messy, and I don't find the time to clean or something like that. Even if I don't work, study or anything else.
I also become really frustrated when feeling people don't get my point in arguments. They always seem to overlook the obvious, and it bothers me a lot! I don't know if someone already posted this, I didn't actually read it all.

 

[bleepbloop]

I love that anyone's quirks, if they're posted in this thread, are assumed to be characteristic of an INTP.

You know you're an INTP when the prospect of waiting in-line quietly among strangers is so repulsive that you'd shoplift to avoid it.

 

[final-dimension]

I am not sure I am an INTP but if I was one then...
you are an INTP when you study for your exam a day before wasting almost the whole day only to start the real studying at the morning and not being ready to memorize everything,but also insinst to study every proof and find patterns although you know you won't be asked about it in the exam, in order to be satisfied that you know how and why the formula is the way it is.
and remember I may not be an INTP.

 

[final-dimension]

When you start reading this list and realize it is too long and should be summerized.
When someone talks to you while you are doing something you don't even sense it, and after you finish what you are doing you ask if someone has talked to you or something.
When you want to take a bath or another routine work you don't realize you are doing it until you have finished it cause were thinking the whole time while doing it and then you ask yourself "did I just take a bath?".
and all this would only be true if the MBTI theory is really reliable ,I was really an INTP and these aren't just individual charecterists.

 

[final-dimension]

That last post was my 100th post.I think I should celebrate that!

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I love that anyone's quirks, if they're posted in this thread, are assumed to be characteristic of an INTP.

You know you're an INTP when the prospect of waiting in-line quietly among strangers is so repulsive that you'd shoplift to avoid it.

[BIMG]http://www.priorfatgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/YouHitTheNailOnTheHead.jpg[/BIMG]

 

[WittyUsername]

- when you wish a happy birthday to a pokemon (Mewtwo feb. 6) but rarely bother about wishing a person irl.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

Well... almost this entire list uncannily accurate.

 

[Diamondeye]

an infp?

*implodes*

Are we that bad? Really?

I have to say, reading through this list (and I did read through it all before posting), most of it applies to me as well, not counting those bizarre personality quirks people list and a few of the "genocide is okay" trips.

Here comes a brief theory on how it might be that many of these traits describe (and other non-INTP's in general).

Most (okay, some, not most) of the traits listed here are pretty common when you have a strong logical-mathematical or linguisitic intelligence. INTP may be more inclined towards these intelligences, but here's the kicker...

The MBTI does not list what you are most competent at, it lists what you prefer doing. Meaning that just because I prefer my feelings as guidelines and not logical thought does not mean I am not competent in thinking (neither that I am competent in handling emotions).

What this is all leading up is merely stating that I think I can justify posting in this thread (and hello by the way, I'm new, and an INFP infiltrator).

2x+fish: You're an M.C. Escher fan.
3x+fish: You know who Escher is, and you don't eschew him. (I know, that was a terrible pun.)

Finally. I noticed an Escher avatar picture a long way back and finally someone brings it up! I have to add because I know at least a couple of the people here love reading and learning obscure things, that I've read a very interesting book called "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid", and I'd very much recommned it.

To stay on-topic...

-You find yourself continually gnawing on something (pencil, your shirt, whatever) when reading or otherwise concentrating.

-You prefer reading books in English if that's their original language even though it is not your primary language.

-You prefer English to your first language, in general.

 

[Causeless]

- You see Diamondeye's under script of "INFP Infiltrator" and momentarily daydream if it would make a good name for a trading card game piece.

 

[Wish]

...even the conversations in your head tire you.

 

[Yet]

when:

- Your 'boss' has a love-hate relationship with you: she loves you because you solve her problems and make things work. She hates you because you decide what you do, when you do it and how you do it.

- you look very calm on the 'outside' but 'inside' a circus of ideas tumble like acrobats around forming new formations, structures and associations.

- you keep forgetting al these uninteresting chors (or however you spell that)

- procrastination is your middle name

- you cannot detect a lot of logical thinking in a great deal of your fellow humans

- you are allergic to anybody and anything that tries to tell you what to do or how to do something

- you know that a result is nothing without knowledge about the process

- you are amazed by the lack of reflection-skills of most people but at the same time find it an interesting phenomenon and try to analyse the mechanisms that apparently prevent reflection or diminish the quality of it

 

[Causeless]

- You wear your shoes until they DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

- You wear your shoes until they DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Lol.

Shoes wear down at the heels, or sometimes curved

http://socionics.org/type/Default.aspx?type=INTP&load=type_baht.html

 

[EFM]

-You set up ssh linux-mac between your slow downstairs computer and your fast upstairs computer so you can avoid being interrupted by random and unnecessary displays of physical affection.

-When ever someone approaches you must free your hands in case they attempt unnecessary physical contact

-You contribute benignly to a conversation in moderation and then some wishy-washy socialite calls you anti-social and plays the hero by "pulling you out of your shell."

 

[Gather_Wanderer]

-You contribute benignly to a conversation in moderation and then some wishy-washy socialite calls you anti-social and plays the hero by "pulling you out of your shell."

Oh how I want to destroy people who do that.

 

[Cogwulf]

-You invent an imaginary illness to mess with someone, and then google it to see if it's real.

 

[DoveEyes]

You know you're an intp when some thing catches your attention and you drop everything & completely cut off the outside world until you have satisfied your curiosity/desire for knowledge of the matter. Only to realize five seconds later that you still aren't satisfied and want to know more.

You know your an intp female when you roll your eyes every time you hear a sorority girl say: "SO, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY LIKE PLEDGE {insert sorority name} NEXT WEEK!" .. Yea.

You know youre an intp girl when you'd rather spend the evening pwning n00bs on black ops then go to a frat party.

You know you're an intp when you still remember almost everything you learned in anatomy and physiology back in high school, which annoys the crap out of people when they want to talk about science/medicine to try and make you feel less smart. Sorry. You will FAIL.

You know you're an intp when you'd rather read The New Yorker than Vogue.

You know you're an intp when you can never make up your freaking mind cause you objectively see the positives and negatives in every situations. :P

 

[Diamondeye]

When you play scrabble-like games and words like festooned, larynx and exuberance pop into your mind even though you are not competing in your native language.

 

[jacoluksevicius]

548. When you randomly laugh at you own thoughts and tell people "oh, it's nothing"

1/0 When you obsessively use parenthesis or slashes in your sentences (well not necessarily in your sentences; just running off on tangents when speaking/writing, and being in the necessity to find a means of keeping it all clear).

3.14 When you spend too much time writing and rewriting something, so that it is as clear as possible, just to have people say its excessively long-winded for such a simple concept.

# When you keep up a bad joke long after everybody has stopped laughing (if they even laughed at all).

A. When you are constantly saying "I told you so, but no you wouldn't listen to me!" *shakes head in disapproval*

~ When you smile at people telling you that "you'll die alone, never get married, and will go to hell"

wow now I'm getting scared! Do you know me?! Are you talking about me?! Who are you?! Show yourselves!

 

[EFM]

You know you're an intp when some thing catches your attention and you drop everything & completely cut off the outside world until you have satisfied your curiosity/desire for knowledge of the matter. Only to realize five seconds later that you still aren't satisfied and want to know more.

You know your an intp female when you roll your eyes every time you hear a sorority girl say: "SO, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY LIKE PLEDGE {insert sorority name} NEXT WEEK!" .. Yea.

You know youre an intp girl when you'd rather spend the evening pwning n00bs on black ops then go to a frat party.

You know you're an intp when you still remember almost everything you learned in anatomy and physiology back in high school, which annoys the crap out of people when they want to talk about science/medicine to try and make you feel less smart. Sorry. You will FAIL.

You know you're an intp when you'd rather read The New Yorker than Vogue.

You know you're an intp when you can never make up your freaking mind cause you objectively see the positives and negatives in every situations. :P

Sorry this is hurting me. I have to say most of the things you are describing aren't necessarily INTP. Rejecting Frats and Soro.s is not just confined to INTPs... many people simply are against hazing (And the exclusive social hierarchy). Also: Black Ops??? Again, not confined to INTP (As an INTP I hate blackops and I have like 20 ExFx friends who are addicted). Seeing things objectively can be attributed to all xxxxs[lol???]... and reading NYT over Vogue isn't so much INTP as it is intelligent vs. inane. You're first phrase is perhaps the worst of all... IF YOU'RE ONLY 5 SECONDS IN HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DROP ALL CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD???? YOU MAKE INTP SOUND LIKE A DISEASE. PLEASE. STOP. IN REVIEW: IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU COMPILED YOUR LIFE AND AN ONLINE MBTI TEST ADD TO MAKE THIS MONSTROSITY. Dove eyes: if this is what you consider INTP, you are NOT Intp.




EFM officially declares its immortal alliance to all that stands in opposition the DoveEyes, the blasphemer.

 

[Diamondeye]

I can't help but agree with EFM even if he/she is being a bit rude about it. This thread contains things which are typical of INTPs, and yes, some of them are a bit personal, but your post just lists up your own traits as if everyone could agree that those were INTP-things. And some of it has almost nothing to do with personality (does it matter what game you are playing?), and most of it sounds like an attempt to assure someone (us? you?) how cool you are. That is not exactly the purpose of this thread.

INTPs, sorry for taking such direct approach in meddling in your affairs, but this needs to be handled :P

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I can't help but agree with EFM even if he/she is being a bit rude about it. This thread contains things which are typical of INTPs, and yes, some of them are a bit personal, but your post just lists up your own traits as if everyone could agree that those were INTP-things. And some of it has almost nothing to do with personality (does it matter what game you are playing?), and most of it sounds like an attempt to assure someone (us? you?) how cool you are. That is not exactly the purpose of this thread.

INTPs, sorry for taking such direct approach in meddling in your affairs, but this needs to be handled :P

When you have a functional need to post out someone else's errs and inconsistencies.

 

[nihilen.]

when you take an mbti test and come out intp.

 

[Diamondeye]

When you have a functional need to post out someone else's errs and inconsistencies.

I kid you not, I do this in face-to-face conversation. To the great displeasure of anyone who's worse than me at any language within earshot...

 

[BigApplePi]

I yi I. When you notice everyone's handle has an "I" in it.

DoveEyes
EyeSeeCold
Cogeyewulf
Diamondeye

With all those "I's" they are sure to see what I don't see. I wonder what that is?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Don't forget EyeNTP and hawkeye.

Other eyes see between the lines of the mind's lies