You know you're an Intp when...

[thelithiumcat]

When the only way you can converse is via discussion and small or comedic talk is pretty much an impossibility because your mind is constantly considering new possibilities and figuring out new puzzles so that's the only thing you can really talk about.

 

[TriflinThomas]

18. You think this list is a great gift to all humanity.

19. You laugh at the Titanic sinking but Wall-E steals your heart.

20. You're not paranoid, it's all perfectly logical.

21. You've played the "but why" game with your parents.

I still play the "why" game with my mom and I'm 18 hahaha.

 

[Sammi327]

You might be an INTP if;
-You are definitely a cat person
-Big Bang Theory is an insulting show
-You love inside jokes
-Your itching to correct this bullet point
-You like small group projects in which the teacher chooses the people you're with because you get to interact with people you would have never thought about even talking to
-Your friends don't really like going to see movies with you because you rip the film apart afterwards
-No one ever understands your irony
-You have commented on the color of the grass, or how pretty the clouds look today
-You're the designated IT person in your group of friends
-You don't like watching award shows where a group of "critics" decide what is good and should be praised
-When people say they're a fan of the band you adore, you test them
-You've made someone cry without even realizing it because you said something awful
-You say something that in theory should be hilarious, but it comes out really awkwardly and other people steal your joke
-You absolutely hate when people wave their fucking hand in front of your face when you are daydreaming
-You COULD be getting good grades, but there are much better and interesting things to do
- first post.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

You might be an INTP if;
-You are definitely a cat person
-Big Bang Theory is an insulting show
-You love inside jokes
-Your itching to correct this bullet point
-You like small group projects in which the teacher chooses the people you're with because you get to interact with people you would have never thought about even talking to
-Your friends don't really like going to see movies with you because you rip the film apart afterwards
-No one ever understands your irony
-You have commented on the color of the grass, or how pretty the clouds look today
-You're the designated IT person in your group of friends
-You don't like watching award shows where a group of "critics" decide what is good and should be praised
-When people say they're a fan of the band you adore, you test them
-You've made someone cry without even realizing it because you said something awful
-You say something that in theory should be hilarious, but it comes out really awkwardly and other people steal your joke
-You absolutely hate when people wave their fucking hand in front of your face when you are daydreaming
-You COULD be getting good grades, but there are much better and interesting things to do
- first post.

Yes, I relate to less than half of those, and more I saw as either not being INTP related or probably related to another type, that is INTJ.

 

[xbox]

-when you underdress rather than overdress
-last to arrive and first to leave
-you prefer seeing overdressed people just so you get the least attention
-when someone asks, whats wrong, you say youre either tired or not feeling well to avoid talk
-you have used crowds just to hide in them, rather than socialize
-you got up to say you were going to the restroom, but you really went to your car, and then home

 

[x Loki]

When you are walking around campus deep in thought and start laughing at something you are thinking about...then realize you are laughing to yourself which makes you laugh harder, attracting attention from all the people walking around you.

 

[DetachedRetina]

^Yup.

 

[x Loki]

^Yup.

Seriously happens to me a couple times a week.

The bad thing is I'm finding it increasingly funny for a multitude of reasons every time it happens.

 

[DetachedRetina]

I also laugh in the middle of peoples' sentences.

This is why: http://titilategorillas.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/the-baby-boomers-4-2/

I had to make a post to explain it because people were getting offended when they said "many hands make light work" and I started laughing.

 

[x Loki]

I do something very similar. I'll be listening to somebody and they will say something that my mind will absolutely fixate on and spin crazy tangents off of. Needless to say, I don't hear much of anything else they say until they "snap" me out of it.

 

[DetachedRetina]

^yup

 

[x Loki]

So to sum up this little discussion: You know you're an INTP when Gnome-man is an island.

 

[DetachedRetina]

^yup

 

[booksandcats]

When you can't stand S types.

This is why my mom and I have trouble getting along. I got her to take the test and as I suspected, she's an ISTJ, 84% Sensing.

 

[booksandcats]

^yup

Malapropism FTW.

 

[DetachedRetina]

I love malapropisms, but I also have a hard time getting along with censors. ISTJs can be tough.

 

[Onnozelschaap]

First post...

-1^-1 : when you look at a password prompt and, for the life of you, don't know what your computer expects of you

5.467/0 : when you put names into a morsecode generator just to enjoy the musicality of the resulting rythms

3*3^27 : when you only take the clothes off the line that you want to wear now because they will be there again in a week anyhow

500 : when you exclaim "Ouch" just in case something hurts even when it doesn't.

 

[chatvite]

33. you dump your boyfriend because he said i love you and gave you a hug....
(really happen to me)

I did the same thing.

 

[chatvite]

Nineteen Eighty-Four - You cringe at the grammar in some of these posts. You just want to go through them with a big red pen and fix the your/you're issues.

2001 - You go to work/school unknowngly wearing 2 different shoes, figure it out after about 45 minutes because you have tripped for the 18th time, then spend the rest of the day pointing it out to others before they notice it.

2046 - When working on an idea/project you get so deep and lost that you throw everything off the desk and feel better after the "reboot."

3000 - You write and rewrite your forum post (may already be in this list - I haven't read the entire list before feeling compelled to post. I'm still trying to decide whether I should press Post or not).

 

[BigApplePi]

Nineteen Eighty-Four - You cringe at the grammar in some of these posts. You just want to go through them with a big red pen and fix the your/you're issues.

3000 - You write and rewrite your forum post (may already be in this list - I haven't read the entire list before feeling compelled to post. I'm still trying to decide whether I should press Post or not).

U wonda wat standards r bein' uzed cuz dey's gotta b standads.

You agonize about whether to post this or not and finally after more agonizing decide not to.

 

[chatvite]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Adair
When you always walk in sync with the rhythm of any ambient or headphone music.

If there isn't ambient music or headphones, you play something in your head, even if it is "It's a Hard Knock Life."

 

[EyeSeeCold]

When you always walk in sync with the rhythm of any ambient or headphone music.

Can't help but synchronize my walking to the songs I'm listening to(or the pattern in my head).

 

[MissQuote]

When looking for something on your dresser you find things you have set down over the course of the past month and completely forgot about until you find them right then, that is when you notice the pile is approaching two feet in height and you realise you had been moving under the premise that your dresser was cleaned up (you specifically remember cleaning it, just the other... uh, month... oh) and then you think Maybe I Should Clean This! Then you promptly forget and then remember two days later when you are looking for a certain shirt in the pile of probably clean clothing and the thought that maybe you should come up with a better system for storing your clothing the problem is you are using the dresser the pile is in front of to keep your art supplies and hand tools and paperwork in so there are only three small drawers available for clothing and you can't stack the cloths on top because it looks like there is a two foot pile of other stuff on top of there that you swear you just cleaned up the other day.

I need to clean my room.

 

[chatvite]

You know you're an INTP when...

• Your train of thought regularly ends up generating a list of specific Google queries you intend to look up later, but then end up forgetting most of. Questions are a sort of by-product of your normal thought process.
• When your alarm clock resets to 12:00 after a power outage, you just memorize the time offset instead of bothering to set the time correctly. Time is all relative anyways.
• You often take a break from thinking deeply about something to find that at some point you've unknowingly picked up an object in your hands and have been playing with it for some time now.
• You sometimes say a phrase, sentence, or even a brief dialogue out loud just because you want to hear what it sounds like.
• You have an irresistible urge to flip back to the previous page in a book to double-check the exact phrasing of a sentence.
• Typos stand out like a sore thumb, even when you're just glancing at a piece of paper.
• You frequently think about how weird it is that the cold you are feeling on your skin in the winter is in fact an absence of heat.
• You don't bother charging your cell phone, because if it's actually important someone can find another way to get in touch with you-- right?.
• You frequently observe the present moment from the future, perhaps as a chapter in a book... and then you think about the fact that you're doing that, and laugh at the ridiculousness of it all. Then you make something up when someone asks why you just laughed out of the blue.
• You learn new concepts or facts by thinking about them until your internal model has adjusted to the point where this fact is innately obvious. As a result, you refuse to "just memorize" things, and it can sometimes take a long time to build up a complete theoretical foundation to support a new idea.
• Your focus inertia is massive: it takes forever to get started on something, but once you get started you are likely to continue working on it until no longer physically possible, to the exclusion of everything else.
• You are constantly making tons of observations which you find fascinating, but no one else seems to. What to do?
• You rarely ask questions in class, for fear that it was already addressed and everyone else got it but you were zoned out at the time.
• When emotions come into play, there is inevitably an incredibly painful battle with your rational mind. This may possibly manifest itself as an imagined

Um......yeah.....it's all me...

 

[chatvite]

When you can spend 75% of your day on the Onternet and still be more productive than 95% of your coworkers.

 

[RockinLollipop]

-When you lose your glasses while they're still on your face.
-When you try to walk out the door in the middle of winter while forgetting to put shoes on.

 

[shrub77]

-When you spend more time figuring out a way to complete your assignments without actually doing the assignment (I spent 3 days trying to crack the algorithms of an online review test I was required to take, that test would have only taken me two hours, but it was worth it. and review, eww. Another: I spent my lunch break programming my calculator to do law of cosines for a sheet that would have taken 10 minutes by hand.)
-If you really, really hate showing work for math problems.

 

[MichiganJFrog]

...when you just know how to do something, have no idea why you know it, and don't have the patience to show anyone else how to do it.

 

[Triginta Septem]

I'm not sure how many are that common for other INTPs, but:

You know you're an INTP when... you're surrounded by idiots, you easily fall into limerence with every any female who as much as waves at you, you are a master at avoiding crowds, you obsess over any topic that interests you the slightest bit (currently, "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", MBTI personality types, and to a much larger degree than even those, anything related to languages), when you strongly dislike being recognized for your accomplishments, and when your best friend ever is your cat (this may just be an introvert thing of course). And most of the above, of course.

 

[LcDel]

-When you nearly rip your hair out at every "to" that should be a "too" and "there" that should be a "they're"
-When you become so amazed at some new and abstract topic or thought that you start grinning to yourself, and no one gets it when you tell them why
-When you're going to do your work.......tomorrow

 

[LcDel]

When looking for something on your dresser you find things you have set down over the course of the past month and completely forgot about until you find them right then, that is when you notice the pile is approaching two feet in height and you realise you had been moving under the premise that your dresser was cleaned up (you specifically remember cleaning it, just the other... uh, month... oh) and then you think Maybe I Should Clean This! Then you promptly forget and then remember two days later when you are looking for a certain shirt in the pile of probably clean clothing and the thought that maybe you should come up with a better system for storing your clothing the problem is you are using the dresser the pile is in front of to keep your art supplies and hand tools and paperwork in so there are only three small drawers available for clothing and you can't stack the cloths on top because it looks like there is a two foot pile of other stuff on top of there that you swear you just cleaned up the other day.

I need to clean my room.

.....Someone understands me!

 

[Silphiums]

When you take a pregnancy test 5 times because there is always the theoretical possibility of have 5 false positives...

 

[introverted_thinker]

When you have a repertoire of responses for any situation.

You analyse other people's social interactions, but when it comes to your own, you have no idea what is happening.

 

[Coolydudey]

When yo see an odd looking mug and you just have to figure out what type of shape it is (it turned out to be a parabola, or maybe a catenary, rotated about 360 degrees). Then, you wander about the most efficient shape for mugs, which also minimises the torque on your fingers while holding it...

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

quiet non-smiler with darty eyes

 

[Chronomar]

when your mental "ideal forms*" of various complex systems (from physics to commerce to knowing all the social protocol** to use to ingratiate yourself to others) abstractly become so beautiful you actually feel like you know them, and talk to them sometimes, even if your cat says it's impossible to talk to a system. You tell your cat to hush up and that one day, you'll marry your systems.

Wow we're batty.

:smiley_emoticons_mr

* In my own definition kind of way, not in the Plato way.
**not the kind one automatically knows, this is the INTP style charisma, built out of intuitions and deductions, collecting, cataloging, and systematizing the known and combining it with understandings of larger psychological principle, creating your "social protocol" understanding. I like to think INTPs who are so inclined also try to hone their social protocol to the point where they can not only understand, but do, and succeed.

 

[SandMizzle]

1/0 = ∞/0
When nearly every teacher you ever had told you the same two things:
"I'm impressed by your mind!"
"I'm impressed by your laziness!"
... and you are getting angry if they don't mention your laziness.

(When you don't know what number to fill in and just wright 1/0 and suddenly duck under your table, because you expect the world to explode)

 

[Chronomar]

1/0 = ∞/0
When nearly every teacher you ever had told you the same two things:
"I'm impressed by your mind!"
"I'm impressed by your laziness!"
... and you are getting angry if they don't mention your laziness.

(When you don't know what number to fill in and just wright 1/0 and suddenly duck under your table, because you expect the world to explode)

I firmly maintain that division by zero just produces a different class of imaginary numbers, imaginary like the square root of negative numbers. Because why the hell not?

(seriously, if anyone knows why the hell not, or if it is true / possible, I'd like to know ASAP).

 

[SandMizzle]

I firmly maintain that division by zero just produces a different class of imaginary numbers, imaginary like the square root of negative numbers. Because why the hell not?

(seriously, if anyone knows why the hell not, or if it is true / possible, I'd like to know ASAP).

I strongly agree with you. But if they find an imaginary number you can multiply with 0 and the result isn't 0, then what's the point of 0?

 

[BigApplePi]

You suddenly realize there may be no such thing as elementary particles as those are a matter of faith and this could unify religion and science.

 

[Polaris]

When......

Meh.

 

[Vidi]

When elaborated on Meh... Mehappens

 

[PhoenixRising]

27. You don't understand half of the funny looks people give you.

28. Sometimes you come up with something that you think is exactly how you wanted to put it, but people just get more confused, despite how simple it seems to you.

29. You have hit someone for trying to give you a hug.

That so describes me. My boyfriend still complains about how I punched him because I was not in the mood for a hug. lol

 

[undragonslayer7]

When you switch to a Dvorak keyboard, not because it increases typing speed, but because it decreases the need for hand movement.

 

[thecursedone]

You systematize everything and you even refer to yourself as a system

When you routinely think in object.method notation (i.e. system.move(), system.getStatus())

You've developed algorithms for avoiding people in public places

You ponder the ridiculousness of "objectivity" in an infinite universe.

You re-think an argument at least 5 times before putting it down, approaching it from every angle of attack.

You expect to get flamed for just about anything you say because you've lost all faith in humanity as a rational entity.

You consider emotions as more harmful than good

You're the laziest person you know, although to the outside everybody thinks you're such a hard worker because you can do 3 times as much per minute as they can.

Most things bore you because you can reduce them to a simple system

People frustrate you because they're unpredictable

You play Magic: The Gathering or other high-strategy games because they're so complex they actually keep you interested. These happen to be the few ways you actually socialize

You are/were a virgin for the first 25+ years of your life

You're on the fence or decidedly "no" on marriage/kids. You see your life as a family person as a nightmare

You don't pick up the phone when your family calls because it takes too much energy to talk to them

Just the start...

 

[BlankFace]

You're trying to explain to your mother that what she considers a complaint is actually just a statement pointing out that what could have and didn't happen would've been much less redundant than what is going to happen and going back to do what could have been done wouldn't make a difference as it would already be too late. In the end, she just tells you to shut up because you're making things complicated.

 

[BehindAPromisingFuture]

01 When you were younger it felt like the world was too raw, if youd have allowed yourself to care(react in a feeling way), the feeling of all the suffering and misery in the world was too much. After reaching puberty and you saw how the world really was, instead of how your idealist self needed it to be to exist ou had to take action of self preservation.

Now the child, unable to control the feeling the world stimulates, as you have a sharp sensory intake. You find your existence unbearable, and transform consciously yourself to an INTP; build a armor around your feelings. You harness the acute intuition inside and start to worship the side that can control the emotions indirectly - logic.
By sanctifying every right emotion by divine logical testaments, the inherent chaos in feelings is in illusory denial and suspects one self to be "illuminated". Instead you´ve manufactured a persona that constricts you. One influential element is of course the way how a INTP searches the most sick and diabolical philosophies - and thus the INTP exposes himself to the vilest filth ever spouted. To deconstruct them and making yourself impervious to its overwhelming effect to your true self. While you strengthten your tru self, you live this shell.

Once in a while you break the psychotic illusion you´re beneath for protection, and see the world like your true self. You have psychotic moments, were the world changes in a blink and you see the world as it is. When your almost ready true self is trying to come out.

The nihilism experienced by the INTP is a product of the elimination of HURT.
By stripping everything of meaning you become like the fabled Balder in Asgardian mythology. Impervious to all the proverbial, verbal slander, which is built around a dissolved norm/value. It is also a process of not feeling and deep discomfort.

When you desensitized yourself in correct measure, you will emerge as your original self. Which is happening to me right now i hope.

...or is it just me.

 

[TriflinThomas]

01 When you were younger it felt like the world was too raw, if youd have allowed yourself to care(react in a feeling way), the feeling of all the suffering and misery in the world was too much. After reaching puberty and you saw how the world really was, instead of how your idealist self needed it to be to exist ou had to take action of self preservation.

Now the child, unable to control the feeling the world stimulates, as you have a sharp sensory intake. You find your existence unbearable, and transform consciously yourself to an INTP; build a armor around your feelings. You harness the acute intuition inside and start to worship the side that can control the emotions indirectly - logic.
By sanctifying every right emotion by divine logical testaments, the inherent chaos in feelings is in illusory denial and suspects one self to be "illuminated". Instead you´ve manufactured a persona that constricts you. One influential element is of course the way how a INTP searches the most sick and diabolical philosophies - and thus the INTP exposes himself to the vilest filth ever spouted. To deconstruct them and making yourself impervious to its overwhelming effect to your true self. While you strengthten your tru self, you live this shell.

Once in a while you break the psychotic illusion you´re beneath for protection, and see the world like your true self. You have psychotic moments, were the world changes in a blink and you see the world as it is. When your almost ready true self is trying to come out.

The nihilism experienced by the INTP is a product of the elimination of HURT.
By stripping everything of meaning you become like the fabled Balder in Asgardian mythology. Impervious to all the proverbial, verbal slander, which is built around a dissolved norm/value. It is also a process of not feeling and deep discomfort.

When you desensitized yourself in correct measure, you will emerge as your original self. Which is happening to me right now i hope.

...or is it just me.

Um, I think it's just you... not completely sure, though.

 

[Sanctum]

When you spend you WHOLE summer break in your house reading, researching, and learning new things and cant wait to go back to school and show everyone how much of a genius you are. Lol the last part sounds a little INTJish

 

[x Loki]

When not having a phone call all day directly correlates to having a good day