You know you're an Intp when...

[ShameFace]

when your mental age is 15-20 years older than your physical age until you're 35, and then 10 years mentally younger after that.

So goddamn true

 

[JASSY]

117. When people around you are having a full blown conversation and are so happy with themselves for thinking "logically" while you remain silent and rolling your eyes on the inside.

 

[Kudaran]

118. You laugh yourself silly at irony, even in terrible situations.

 

[Void]

When you stay in bed, because you are not finished thinking.

every freaking day....

 

[LcDel]

Your an INTP if you feel you must explain this poem. Feeling confident your right you suddenly see another meaning and immediately are unsure of your previous success you chose not to write either

The grammar in the above comment makes you flinch.

 

[brandmaus]

u're the person most likely to have 10 to a hundread times more notes and status posts with locked setting "only me" than "real/ visible" ones, on facebook.

u struggle with a Sharing Block instead of a Writing one.

ur Bookmarks tab is totally swollen with links u were supposed to go back to. but didnt.

ur definition of 'romantic' involves intellectual pleasure - and that's emotional enough!

there's at least a handful of people constantly asking for some of ur time, if u're in a medium to active (half-way-there) social environment phase.

u actually enjoy meeting new people, but following-up meetings find u indifferent.

female? having period every month is like a harsh body-reality check u cant get off ur back.

u're almost perfectly good at saying exactly what's-not perfect/ good about u.

 

[JimJambones]

When your original test results indicated that you were indeed an INTP, but after further analysis some of the descriptions didn't quite fit and you figured "I don't do this or that, therefore I am not an INTP." This resulted in researching mbti and possibly socionics in excruciating detail, learning all you can about the functions, finding that different personality types defined other types differently as well as defined the functions in slightly different ways, which made you research even more, contemplating the various other possible types, even finding yourself convinced you could've been some of these other types, until finally it dawns on you that only an INTP would go so such great lengths for intellectual stimulation and, therefore, you must be an INTP. The fact that the decriptions are cookie cutter descriptions and you have to analyze the details behind the description in a seemingly indefinite manner to obtain anything useful, only increases the probability of your INTPness.

 

[brandmaus]

without being into the MBTI for too long, u rightly figured out the personality type/s of whoever (greatly) interests u.

on a more physical level; u diagnosed ur sick-self correctly (and in detail?) in advance to visiting a doctor -- at 6 times minimum(!).

u're wondering if brandmaus is a native speaker. ha

 

[Aethysius]

You cringe at brandmaus' posts for their incorrect grammar and spelling, knowing that if he/she was an INTP, a 'native speaker', so to speak, they would use proper grammar and spelling.

 

[brandmaus]

ey Aethysius!

 

[Wolf18]

You analyze people that you see so much that you know almost everything about them without their even noticing you. When they try to talk to you, you mention something that you analyzed about them that they don't know you know, they get creeped out, and they refuse to ever talk to you again.

SW

 

[Pathosray]

When Firefox has problems causing you to lose all the pages you had loaded causes a great deal of pain and anguish.

 

[pjoa09]

When your original test results indicated that you were indeed an INTP, but after further analysis some of the descriptions didn't quite fit and you figured "I don't do this or that, therefore I am not an INTP." This resulted in researching mbti and possibly socionics in excruciating detail, learning all you can about the functions, finding that different personality types defined other types differently as well as defined the functions in slightly different ways, which made you research even more, contemplating the various other possible types, even finding yourself convinced you could've been some of these other types, until finally it dawns on you that only an INTP would go so such great lengths for intellectual stimulation and, therefore, you must be an INTP. The fact that the decriptions are cookie cutter descriptions and you have to analyze the details behind the description in a seemingly indefinite manner to obtain anything useful, only increases the probability of your INTPness.

Ain't that a bitch.

 

[C.Hecker88]

That's been said a lot...

-You are somewhat paranoid that Cognisant has somehow developed telepathic powers and is using the internet to read your mind, hack your computer and steal your porn collection and banking details.

Gawd that's funny.

-When you're more worried about your porn collection than your banking details and the well-being of your computer...

 

[Void]

This is probably too specific, but anyways.

You make your own cryptographic language
You write a program to code and decode your cryptographic language
You notice the incompleteness of your cryptographic language, yet you cant be bothered to fix it properly

 

[SierraArcher]

You know you're an INTP when the raw honesty in your free speaking is misinterpreted as joking or sarcasm.

You know you're an INTP when you have to rush yourself to go about doing the things you WANT to do and are excited for before you revert and change your mind and play Sudoku all night.

You know you're an INTP when your fantasies often consist of you being the only person on earth; free to spend all time robbing libraries, learning how to sail from the books, traveling and observing and enriching, breaking into the Vatican, training unlikely species to be your best friends, and trying to discover a way to reproduce asexually to start a population of your clones.

 

[QuickTwist]

You know your an INTP when you see patters that arn't there.

You know your an INTP when you get so lost in thought you forget where the bathroom is.

You know your an INTP when you make an observation, share it with someone, and they tell you somthing more basic and you believe them because they must be thinking it through more than you are.

 

[Stargazer Lily]

When you have an entire conversation with someone, and then realize afterwards you remember none of it.

When you try to figure out the principle behind the rule so you can throw the rule out the window.

 

[QuickTwist]

You know your an INTP when you think Kung Pow is funny.

 

[brandmaus]

u have puns instantly ready whenever 'www' catches ur eye in a conscious sate: World Wide Warming, White War Warning, etc...

u might have noticed before how 'warming' and 'warning' in some fonts look exactly the same. then u got mad at how ppl allow for such clarity-fails so easy.

u might have wished for an INSP personality type just for the sake of contemplating what it'be like if sometimes u cud get INSPiration directly from another human being.

n if by a sudden law u had to pay all ur muses/sources u'd follow Greece n the rest in bankruptcy in less than few milliseconds.

u can answer to a comment of 'my phone's off. batteries are stupid!' by 'no, they're just charger-puppets!'

u store extras of what u re addicted to cz u cant be bothered with being expecting of anyone.

in case u're also a troll u shud be better called 'trlol' instead since u re actually a funny one.

 

[Brontosaurie]

when you don't know if you're an intp ha ha ha

 

[Towel]

When you get inspired to draw, but when you sit down you cant figure out what to draw. For a while. Haha

 

[Publius]

-When you're more worried about your porn collection than your banking details and the well-being of your computer...

hear hear...

 

[Hawkeye]

You put your headphones on to listen to music, but as you do you begin reading an article on the Internet.

15 minutes later, you realise that you are still wearing your headphones but have not had any music on...

 

[brandmaus]

you wake up aboard a cruise-ship by the loudest thud accompanied by the loudest shake you've ever heard to think "oh well, they'll figure it out" and fall back. Your travel-guide then breaks through the door and picks you up. You walk around blood and broken stuff in a lukewarm mood, imagining different scenarios of what some might have experienced just.

 

[brandmaus]

upon analysis, you are embarrassed/confused/intimidated by the amount or quality or whatever of the Fe you expressed while dreaming.

 

[TurdsOfDavid]

nth: You hate circlejerks like this thread and have to tell yourself that having fun is not a bad thing

 

[kvothe27]

You're accused of cerebral narcissism. . .

 

[gedanken]

- you love to keep records of things even that you never had time to see them again(like photos or texts even memories)
-you probably wrote this when you should be sleeping..
- you hate sleep, and doesnt understand why people love do it.
- you try find way to be fully free like the doctor
- you just loved "Bad Wolf"

 

[Magus]

You can't seem to pick an 'identity' by which you mean an idiosyncratic collection of values, goals and tastes to finally settle upon. Because of this, numerous times in your life you've filled several pages of a pad of paper with the details regarding the person you have decided to be. Next day of course you completely forget about it all until the process repeats with an entirely new ideal in 6 months time.

You've self diagnosed yourself with the aid of online tests and websites like WebMD with just about every disease and ailment known to man but rarely if ever actually go to a real doctor.

 

[OBonio]

When your original test results indicated that you were indeed an INTP, but after further analysis some of the descriptions didn't quite fit and you figured "I don't do this or that, therefore I am not an INTP." This resulted in researching mbti and possibly socionics in excruciating detail, learning all you can about the functions, finding that different personality types defined other types differently as well as defined the functions in slightly different ways, which made you research even more, contemplating the various other possible types, even finding yourself convinced you could've been some of these other types, until finally it dawns on you that only an INTP would go so such great lengths for intellectual stimulation and, therefore, you must be an INTP. The fact that the decriptions are cookie cutter descriptions and you have to analyze the details behind the description in a seemingly indefinite manner to obtain anything useful, only increases the probability of your INTPness.

Exactly the process I am in at the moment. It's a love / hate thing atm.

 

[Absyrd]

When your original test results indicated that you were indeed an INTP, but after further analysis some of the descriptions didn't quite fit and you figured "I don't do this or that, therefore I am not an INTP." This resulted in researching mbti and possibly socionics in excruciating detail, learning all you can about the functions, finding that different personality types defined other types differently as well as defined the functions in slightly different ways, which made you research even more, contemplating the various other possible types, even finding yourself convinced you could've been some of these other types, until finally it dawns on you that only an INTP would go so such great lengths for intellectual stimulation and, therefore, you must be an INTP. The fact that the decriptions are cookie cutter descriptions and you have to analyze the details behind the description in a seemingly indefinite manner to obtain anything useful, only increases the probability of your INTPness.

This. My life.

 

[Prog]

-When you're listening to someone and you come up with something funny, 5minutes later they're done talking and you forgot what you wanted to say.

This makes me so mad

 

[lonew0lf420]

you are in an analytical state of mind cycling in a void of thoughts that are sub-consciously absorbed from the physical world. Everything has a pattern, or sequence that you must discern and piece together in this macro puzzle that we call reality. With the different pieces we can understand how they are related to each other and understand and develop philosophical ideology about the systemic workings of different things. As an INTP I am an eagle soaring observing information and details from my birds eye vision, while the rats hopelessly scramble across the horizon trying to experience life in a horribly inefficient way.

 

[TheScornedReflex]

The grammar in the above comment makes you flinch.

In my defense, I was really stoned!! You think that post is bad.. Try going through the rest of mine .

 

[r4ch3l]

if you suddenly figure out one difficult piece of the theoretical world/self-view/map-puzzle and it ripples into clarifying so many instances of despair and confusion in your real-life-past and so your call of enlightenment is never "heureka" but "fuck fuck fuck fuck"

Yep. Yet somehow it propels me to look for the next piece even though it actually resolved NOTHING.

 

[r4ch3l]

When you're doing whippets on a couch with a bunch of xNFxs who giggle and make jokes and commentary on the television show playing as they huff gas. You suck down a balloon, go dead silent/pensive, and overhear this exchange:

Person A: "You think that because Americans believe there always has to be a happy ending."
Person B: "No, I think that because I read the goddamn book!"

Upon coming back to reality you excitedly relay your epiphany that this exact exchange is a great metaphor for most arguments concerning eschatology and/or eternal return. Just as you are about to elaborate you realize that everyone in the room is giving you a concerned/creeped out look and has gone quiet. You chug some scotch and wait for the awkwardness to diffuse.

 

[DelusiveNinja]

When you pace back and forth in your living room talking to yourself not caring what other people (mostly immediate family) think of you.

If in class you are positioned with your palm on your cheek, twirling your pencil around between your fingers, while daydreaming; or doing some other type of eccentric habit unintentionally while thinking.

If when explaining things people give you the lost look.

Of course, I could just be crazy.

 

[AnnaC]

• When your mother tells you that it's not good for a person (namely yourself) to glory in the relative isolation put upon one's self.
• When, while playing with little children, you refer to a slide as "The Sensational Path of Serendipity," call yourself a "minion," then must spend the better part of a half-hour defining those words, along with all the words they didn't know that you threw into the definitions you gave them.
• When someone tells you that you got something wrong, and you immediately set out to research it and prove them wrong.
• When you measure the length of your foot, so that you can measure the length of a tree's shadow and the angle of the sun, and figure out how tall a tree is.
• When someone shows you their favorite grove of bamboo to sit in, and all you can think to say is: "Bamboo's really amazing. It's an easily resource with extraordinary growth rates."
• When, while explaining this, you see a bird in the tree over the person's shoulder, and you interject: "There's a bird," and continue speaking so quickly said persons are afraid to question you about whether you actually said something or not.
• When you default to talking to someone's pet birds, because you have no clue what to say to them, and through mimicking their motions somehow become good friends with them, and their owners.
• When you make the majority of your friends through such indirect contact.
• When you default to previously learned formalities when speaking to someone for the first time.
• When you see a strange plant, and immediately engage the gardener in an in-depth conversation to learn more about said plant.
• When you're able to recall a scientific explanation for why a specific, vicious type of bird (i.e., blue-jays) are dive-bombing your little brother's head, and are so distracted by remembering this information, that you forget to tell aforementioned brother to move away from the evil bird.
• When someone asks you to do something, and you walk into another room to do said thing, you go on a trying journey all over the farm to find the person who gave you the order, as they've left the house. Upon finding them, they ask you whether you did what they asked, to which you reply: "Oh, yeah. What was it you wanted me to do again?" Which leads me to my next point...
• When people are frequently baffled by your forgetfulness.
• When you realize you're going in the opposite direction of whatever you were supposed to be retrieving, because you're too busy remembering how clouds develop, and must reorient yourself in the correct direction.

That's all I've got for now.

 

[Drezden]

When someone that you don't respect insulting you, and you just laughing because he is so cute to think that he is actually able to hurt you in anyway.

(Sorry for my bad english, not my native language )

 

[Brontosaurie]

When someone that you don't respect insulting you, and you just laughing because he is so cute to think that he is actually able to hurt you in anyway.

(Sorry for my bad english, not my native language )

i disagree. that certainty indicates Ni type, and excludes an inferior Fe imo.

welcome btw!

 

[Drezden]

i disagree. that certainty indicates Ni type, and excludes an inferior Fe imo.

welcome btw!

Oh...i'm feeling alone now.

Thanks for the welcoming !

 

[TimeAsylums]

I like your sig pic Drezden!

 

[TwinkleBat]

~+1: ... you tell people that the main reason you're taking classes in anthropology and psychology is an attempt to understand the humans around you, and they back away quietly.
~+2: ... you learn about the “participant-observation” methodology in anthropological field research, and realize you've been doing that your entire life, just without the “participant” part.
~+3: ... after reading Alice in Wonderland for the first time as a child, you start looking for the way out of Wonderland.
~+4: ... your IxSP mom tells you for the nth time that she's worried about you because you don't have any feelings and you carefully explain that your brain contains those neural circuits but they're irrelevant to your processing, and she starts to cry.
~+5: ... you read the Giver in school and while the rest of your class was discussing its dystopian aspects, you were arguing its good points because they placed an emphasis on precision of language. Even after you mentally came to the conclusion that you could not exist in such a society with its restrictions on individuality and originality, you kept arguing your original point just to analyze your classmates' counterarguments and logic.
~+6: ... you wish warp speed were possible, so you could travel to Vulcan and live among a people that embraced logic (and cthia). Meanwhile, you excuse any inconsistencies in Vulcan logic as the fault of the Human actor playing the Vulcan on television.
~+7: ... after coming to the realization that most people were born with some innate knowledge of acceptable social behavior, you determine their genetic blueprint contained a manual of such. Not having a manual yourself, you decide to write one by analyzing their behavior and decoding it into simple, logical cause-and-effect models. You later realize that there is nothing logical about any of it, and you begin the search for a more complex model that will fit your data. Once you complete your model, you plan to redesign it to make it logical and then offer it to everyone else as a better replacement for the one they were born with. Since not everyone is logical enough to accept your (better) manual, you posit different delivery methods, including a virus that will insert it into their genetic blueprint.

 

[Spirit]

When you start typing a post and then clarifying the statement and its meaning and tangents for 10 minutes. Then erasing the post because the clarification was not sufficient.

 

[DelusiveNinja]

When you wonder why people talk about toilet paper in terms of squares when it is obviously not a square of tissue.

 

[DelusiveNinja]

When you are suspicious of your family leaving you at home to take a trip out of state a while snooping around to find clues this song is playing in your head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLA7X2B_zuQ

 

[doncarlzone]

....you go to the supermarket to buy a new light bulb but manage to buy everything but a light bulb. You repeat that same routine again ending up with even more groceries.

Hopefully by next week I shall finally have light in my bathroom again.

 

[Cherry Cola]

finally it dawns on you that only an INTP would go so such great lengths for intellectual stimulation and, therefore, you must be an INTP.

I think you need to go back and read some more :O

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

....you go to the supermarket to buy a new light bulb but manage to buy everything but a light bulb. You repeat that same routine again ending up with even more groceries.

Hopefully by next week I shall finally have light in my bathroom again.

I went 4 weeks without one. And there's no window in mine.

I had a feeling a couple weeks ago. If I go by the smile I eventually saw on my face in the mirror, I would say it was a good feeling. A really good feeling. It came on as I pulled 3 light bulbs out of the grocery store bag and that feeling continued on into the next day when I got around to installing those light bulbs into the light fixture above my bathroom mirror. That's when I saw the smile. The smile dissipated when I looked down and saw the mess. Just because you hear the splashing doesn't mean you're entirely hitting your target.

Buy a mop.