You know you're an Intp when...

[EnigmaticMan]

- You would become nocturnal just to prove a point.
- When you take video game perosnality tests.
- When your result is Sephiroth.
- When you know in your mind how to handle a situation, but the words out of your mouth never suffice.
- When you openly agree to go to a psychiatric evaluation out of your own curiosity.
- When you openly disclose that you are going to a psychiatric evaluation.

(I suppose I could go on, but I will leave more to you. This has all been experiences I've had in the past and having in the present.)

 

[addictedartist]

-when putting yourself in a venn diagram with others your characteristics are all encompassing rather than fitting into distinguished catagories even though they are extremely specific
-when you are popular with all the unpopular kids which you happen to prefer anyways because you like to see people exclusively rather than inclusively because you cant help feeling that you are leaving people out when you include others
-when you recognize inside jokes other people have told and subsequently acted in congruence with the funny, thereby creating your own inside practical joke which provocates laughter from yourself because people think you have the insiders edge when really you are the outsider, who has their eyes open when everyone else has their eyes closed and closes their eyes when others focus their eyes upon you appearing as a blind messiah who preforms the solution but is the problem
-when you are an insider, you know all collective information on any given subject pertinent to your field of expertise and serve as an effective guide for newcomers looking for the staples to keep their material together
-when you know the future, but you figure telling people would ruin the suprise
-when thinking about your past , you go way past your birth or conceptualization and even your ancestory to the first person who was just like you in everyway and whether or not their DNA managed to survive long enough for them to 're-incarnate' in the present time to live again and do the things they could only dream of before or if you are a copy of an ancient archtype doomed to failure which is an experiment of a spirit inhabiting a body and exersicing choices previously unexperienced
-when you go too far
-when you havent started something yet because your afraid that you may go too far
-when you say things to other people so perfectly that you forget what you said and cannot repeat it when asked to, yet other people remember what you said for so long that they cant understand why you said it.
-when you identify with book covers, you are the dreary lackluster face of humanity yet within you lies the secrets of redemption enlightenment and reclaimation. you are a wealth of information, a collection of beautiful imagery, an instruction manual, a novel epic once someone opens you up but you are closed book and practically useless until somebody finally takes interest in you, then you cant be left alone; people take you places, prefer your company, talk about you and even think about you when your not around yet you are just the face of a body of knowledge
-when you dont know you are, you think you are

 

[HeOnlySings]

this is an incredible thread holy crap

 

[reddie]

-You probably read the first page or some of it, however jumped to this page to think of something unique to add knowing that it might be stated before but thinking it is irrelevant or badly phrased if it existed
-You still want to prove your self the best INTP even though you know logically it is impossible for human beings to be labeled better or worst.
-Unless you were successful at your career before knowing you an INTP you probably know you just made it more difficult but also it is now more rewarding , however you will eventually.
-You read this probably just to finish it quickly to avoid stating it in your response because that is not unique.

 

[toastedtruth]

...you answer a complicated math question in your head, whilst others did it on paper. The teacher then asks you why, and you tell them that you found it easier. They look at you, bemused.

...you can build IKEA furniture without the instructions (or is this one just me?).

 

[Tc76]

-After watching 'The Time Machine' in 3rd grade you work out a pass phrase that your future self will use to identify himself as legit.

 

[Vladimir]

When you join this forum and intentionally read this thread from the very beginning, until you realize that there are 35 pages and that no one else reads everything and it is therefore futile to try and do it yourself, so you simply go the last page and write this down, hoping that no one has yet written it.

 

[Introspective]

When you think Cleverbot (the AI) makes more sense and is easier to relate to than everyone you know except yourself.

Or is this just me?

 

[toastedtruth]

you spend ages writing a post here, trying to make it sound right for others, then give up entirely because you don't know...



...how to put it

 

[intpz]

When you constantly think that you need more time and are in a hurry to do stuff to have more time to do more stuff. When you finally run out of stuff you can do with the resources you have.

 

[living chaos]

- when you read through an aftershock from an earthquake without noticing

 

[living chaos]

...you can build IKEA furniture without the instructions (or is this one just me?).

Let's face it IKEA furniture is easier to build than a 20 piece lego set

 

[cidheli]

When you thought about how humans taste.

Oh my gosh I have thought about this so many times. And, when I told people at work that if I lost my own leg I think I should have the right to eat it rather than have it go to waste in an incinerator, and then that I would also know what humans taste like and not worry about getting someone else's disease from eating them- they looked at me like I was crazy. But to me it's rather logical, if an accident were to happen.

 

[living chaos]

Oh my gosh I have thought about this so many times. And, when I told people at work that if I lost my own leg I think I should have the right to eat it rather than have it go to waste in an incinerator, and then that I would also know what humans taste like and not worry about getting someone else's disease from eating them- they looked at me like I was crazy. But to me it's rather logical, if an accident were to happen.

The main question is why you'd want to eat the whole leg, hasn't it been established that human tastes bad?

 

[BigApplePi]

The main question is why you'd want to eat the whole leg, hasn't it been established that human tastes bad?

... you've heard tender females taste like chicken but you wonder if human males taste like rooster???

 

[addictedartist]

You make others question their INTPness

 

[Ego]

When your family sees you away from your hobby and says "finally!" before you glance, get a drink, then walk away. Never to be heard from again until hunger strikes.

When the only difference between left and right is choice

 

[cidheli]

When you finally figure out how easy(and boring) it is to be "social"(with the general population):

You're wide variety of interests allows others to connect with you at various levels, however you never connect with them

Most think you are 'cool' because you say what no one else will say and are often random

Some complain that you are often depressing in your conversations but they come out admitting that it made them think

You are often bored by the predictable patterns others move in

Their repetitive nature is also annoying...

You may go out to dinner/drink with a group but always end up leaving early to return to researching, writing, playing music, etc.

Regardless of the amount of people you know, you belong to no click, and always end up alone...willingly or not

You hate having to be in a group of more than three people because others start acting different than when they are one and one which is an overall facade and disrupts the analysis of searching for internal truths

You'd rather have imaginary conversations with people in your head than the ones you know in the external reality and often do so even when you're apparently talking to someone else(not sure if that one has already been said)

EVERYTHING ends up boring...

this IS me...wow

 

[toastedtruth]

...you're fun to be around, as long as it's in your own mind.

...you come alive at night, and drown during the day.

You make others question their INTPness

...you've had your INTPness questioned by another INTP, then thought about it a long time. Lastly, you came back to the same answer you had initially.

 

[GoingSolo]

You will always identify with this statement, regardless of your age: "I have currently put on hold some of my previously pursued pursuits in pursuit of certain other pursuits which currently occupy my mind but the prior mentioned previously pursued pursuits are in no way forgotten."

hence the paradoxical urge for suicide and the wish for immortality, as nothing is ever complete.

 

[Aethysius]

I. The prospect of human extinction does not phase you, but rather relieves you.
II. You would most like a government run by scientists, and don't see why others wouldn't.
III. Your ideas to wipe out stupidity, your general feelings about stupidity, and some of your ideas, period, are met with hostile glares.
IV. People don't understand how you can be so easily annoyed, and you don't understand how they aren't.

 

[ℜεмїηїs¢εη¢ε]

...you're fun to be around, as long as it's in your own mind.
...you come alive at night, and drown during the day.

Sounds like me

hence the paradoxical urge for suicide and the wish for immortality, as nothing is ever complete.

So true...

 

[Sherlock]

So, I'm a new INTP. I'm still trying to convince myself I'm not because it's the best type and it seems conceited of me to think I'm a part of it. But I am Anyway, I relate to a lot of these and have already compiled a list of my favorites. Here are MY contributions:

-when you ask your close friend a question about what something means and they ask if you're serious or not. (It was in Chinese. How the hell would I know? But I still should have... some how... *insert depressed onomatopoeia here*)

-when your event for the week is a day at Barnes & Noble.

-when you are carrying so many books at B&N, you have to continually set the stacks down and they keep falling over, so you ask the woman at the check-out if she will hold them for you whilst you continue looking.

-when you leave B&N with three bags full of HARDCOVER (cannot stress this enough; maybe it's just me, but those damn paperback covers just piss me off) books.

That's all I've got for now; I apologize if they have been said before!

 

[Sherlock]

(If I don't post this now, I'll tell myself to do it later but never will. I hate to double post, sorry.) Because I was curious, I tested Cleverbot for its MB personality. It earned an ISTP. The Mechanic. Although I know that this was completely random and we could overtime demonstrate that each of the 16 types would eventually be present based on the changes in its answers and the phrasings of our questions, this still excited me. It fits with personality pages' description http://www.personalitypage.com/html/ISTP.html

 

[BigApplePi]

When you find a book at Barnes & Noble and think, "This is great. It's just like a book I love at home." You buy it, take it home only to discover it IS the same book. Now you have to take it back. <-- This actually happened yesterday.

 

[Aethysius]

I. You've gotten a blank stare for taking a conversation too deep, as you detest small talk.
II. No one understands your obsession with your 'boring' subjects.
III. You don't understand people's fascination with vapid subjects.
IV. You use 'vapid' quite frequently to describe non-INTP things.

 

[intpz]

I. You've gotten a blank stare for taking a conversation too deep, as you detest small talk.
II. No one understands your obsession with your 'boring' subjects.
III. You don't understand people's fascination with vapid subjects.
IV. You use 'vapid' quite frequently to describe non-INTP things.

V. You've given a blank stare only to realize in an epiphanic form that you should've faked an emotional reaction, and after giving it, you see a relief on the colleague's face.

 

[Aethysius]

VI. You're excited when someone quotes you, and continues your numbering.
VII. You're more into the theory of something than the thing itself.

 

[Irukanji]

When told otherwise(for instance, trying to be smart but tuning out "wrong") you pretend that you knew all a long and were just trying to confuddle them.

You could take over the world if only people would listen to you.(or if only you could stand up in front of 2000 people and give a speech without pissing yourself laughing or in a more literal sense)

You smoke in public to avoid having to talk to people, and give you a reason to be looking around at everybody.

 

[Bhagavat]

When your assignment in college is to write a thesis paper and you have conceived the entire thing in your mind, but will put off writing it down untill five hours before it is due.

Your thesis paper is now due in three hours, you haven't started, and you are now

 

[intp.]

when you're still unable to figure out how to post a thread on my own and ask for advice here!

when you failed in your exam in the subjects you can teach your teachers

when you're very depressed and searching ways out in this forum

help me how to post a thread please.....

 

[BigApplePi]

Do you mean a NEW thread? Go to "Home." Pick a category that fits you. "New Thread" should appear in the upper left. If it doesn't, come back here.

 

[DeadonDreaming]

You cry yourself to sleep at night.

 

[intpz]

I don't think that inability to understand the concept of creating a new thread is an INTP thing, unless the INTP in question is a total idiot.

I've met people in real life who were unable to do it, mostly xSFx types, they were spending hours on Facebook, but couldn't create a fucking thread. How hilarious is that?

 

[BigApplePi]

... you realize the concept of creating a new thread is not the same as the skill to create a new thread but can't quite figure how those two differ even though it should be obvious they aren't the same.

 

[intpz]

Obviously you need a lot of skill to click on "New Thread." We all (except him!) must be geniuses.

 

[intp.]

I'm new here. And using this forum from my phone......till now I'm unable to figure out where that button is! Maybe because phone hasn't that option!


Moreover I hardly use this forum!


......you know you are an INTP when you smile at the people who criticise you .....

......you know you are an INTP when you know what psychology and personality people have got by reading their posts..........!


you know you are an mature INTP when you forgive the rude attitude of less mature ones........

you know you are an INTP when you sought to know the reasons of criticism rather than criticise........!

Thanks for help BigApplePi!

 

[Eskayp101]

When you know it would take way too long to explain the intellectual framework for a correct assessment of the problem, so you end up gritting your teeth and placating.

 

[BigApplePi]

... you wonder if there is such a thing as a psychological type because everyone else seems to think so. You look at INTJ and INFP and turn away. Maybe you are INTP or you missed one of the other thirteen.

 

[brandonmarks94]

# *=: if you purposely fail all courses all 4 years of high school and then pick up the pieces at the end just to provide a sufficient challenge for you.
# F'(x)=(10x-6)/(6x-3): you try to get all A's senoir year because you have to prove that youre smarter than everyone else before you leave. *hint use the law of quotients to find the derivative of the function above*
#?: you end up only getting C's becauser youre too lazy to do the homework
∞: you understand my signature haha

 

[7even]

1- When you spend ages trying to remember what the fuck it is you were thinking about a second back, and through conscious effort actually remember.

2- When you fail to achieve the norm, because you're lazy, and either you're arrogant (according to others) or you can absolutely see the simplicity of what you have failed to fucking achieve (and know it is beneath your abilities) thus making it ridiculously boring and not worth the initial effort. Except you know, you know, that you should have put in the effort for your own good, essentially making you an idiot, which can make you feel terrible.

3- Your sense of direction could be surprisingly terrible.

4- You lose items on an occasional basis, but always manage to find them!

5- When you get called 'weird' on a frequent basis.

6- You put on a sort of conscious Fe mask, and are aware of your facial expressions and words when communicating with MORTALS. I PITY MORTALS!

7- When you are convinced you are insane, find humor in it, and laugh like a lunatic.

8- When you can't help but use intellect (either Thinking or expressing it) whilst communicating with MORTALS (I PITY MORTALS!) who have an astonishing number of fallacies in several words in just one bloody sentence. Oh, how you want to correct them! Oh, the effort! Oh, fuck it! Nodding is so much simpler. You decide to resort to nodding!

9- When you find yourself doing this quite often - the demeanor of a mad man lost in space.

10- When you are given news about death, in most cases, you either don't know what to say, or say something sympathetic but Feel nothing. You are now probably curious to what has happened to that poor soul, and possess little streaks of envy. (Though, you could feel pretty bad).

11- You can be a surprisingly patient person, because who the fuck cares about linear 24 hour societal clock-time?

12- You delete sentences you have typed because you're not quite sure if you really meant what you have said. Same applies to Thinking something, then Thinking whether to say it or not, then resolve to not saying it!

13- When nothing seems to make any sense whatsoever. (Sometimes..)

14- Your behavior may not reflect your age. Screw 'acting like an adult'. Screw convention. Screw social patterns. Screw politics. Screw social correctness and expectations.

15- Sometimes you find yourself conforming to what you previously said 'screw it!' to - but you are consciously doing it with something in mind.

16- When nothing really seems to matter, strong nihilistic thoughts.

17- You'd much rather be a mammal of your choice. Like a turtle.

18- When you think of the perfect thing to say or think about at the wrong time.

19- You think the new YouTube sensation 'Gangnam style' is relatively stupid as fuck, but perhaps find some humor in it.

 

[Dove]

When you are on a subject 10 minutes after it has changed... Just happened

 

[Etheri]

17- You'd much rather be a mammal of your choice. Like a turtle.

Oh the implications.
However, I'd love to have a shell to crawl in at any given time. But I guess at times, we all hide behind our walls, shell or not.

As to the thread : When you like your friend best when they start ranting about you being thoughtful and philosophical in their drunken emotional rage.

 

[7even]

FUCK I MEANT REPTILE! NO! THE AUTHENTICITY AND CREDIBILITY OF MY POST HAS BEEN COMPROMISED!
DAMN YOU ETHERI!

I am in much concordance with your drunken best friend scenario.

 

[ideae]

When you want to have earwax just so you won't be held accountable for not listening.

 

[brandonmarks94]

# *=: if you purposely fail all courses all 4 years of high school and then pick up the pieces at the end just to provide a sufficient challenge for you.
# F'(x)=(10x-6)/(6x-3): you try to get all A's senoir year because you have to prove that youre smarter than everyone else before you leave. *hint use the law of quotients to find the derivative of the function above*
#?: you end up only getting C's becauser youre too lazy to do the homework
∞: you understand my signature haha

33333333: youre bothered when you realize that i spelled because wrong XD

 

[brandonmarks94]

93933902453820: when you think that the funniest stand up routine is brian regan's spelling bee XD

 

[DeadonDreaming]

When you start counting at 0, instead of 1.

 

[Crocket]

- You can't find something you're looking for even when it's right in front of you
- One of your parents insists on speaking up in a social situation, you were unprepared and are lost for words
- As a comment on your junior high school report card, teachers said you liked to be "left alone"
- You're quite happy with your Pness. Past girlfriends weren't. ()

 

[Teohrn]

- There is always some things that you could do if you wanted to, but you won't do it, because you can do it, if you wanted to.
- When you prove yourself capable of something, interest in 'something' immediately declines.
- You don't think you have to prove yourself to others if you have proved yourself to yourself.