What is your name?
Name's Glendon
Where are you from?
I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. And I feel very strange posting this stuff on a forum but hey, what are you gonna do. Can't use TOR for everything.
How old are you?
25 as of this writing
What's your gender?
Male
How did you find out that you were INTP, or other type?
Found out today by actually reading the other personality types (used to think I was INTJ =/). This (the MBTI) hasn't been my thing (since apparently before I was pegged as NOT myself) but reading the INTP profile made me understand how useful a tool the MBTI is. For the longest time I thought I was an INTJ... the test is a nice tool, but too easily fooled, particularly by someone who goes through life attacking systems /before/ determining whether they're useful. I read the INTP one and was like, "This makes waaaay more sense... I don't plan things!"
How did you find out about this forum?
Googling for INTP-related things.
Do you have a partner/lover?
Nope. Haven't really had a good understanding of myself until a couple months ago so everything kinda turned to trash, and now, well, now I know too precisely who and what I want and too few people fill those requirements.
Do you have any kids?
No. Given the above, thank God no.
Do you have any pets?
I often think of my coworkers as pets, does that count?
What do you do for a living?
I'm an entrepreneur and a writer. The first to make money, the second to keep sane. If you ask which I'm better at, it's the latter.
I look forward to talking here and reading the walls of text folks like us are prone to putting up. Cheers!
Because, of course, I wouldn't feel special if I didn't have my own thread, I'll quote my earlier reply here and then elaborate.
So, understanding myself as an INTP seems like a good way of moving forward in the world.
My life to date has been something of a gongshow because nobody told me things like "You're really good at convincing people of things, you should be careful with that" or "You know what, you're probably not crazy, just be yourself and things will be okay." I didn't get the whole, "If you do things you enjoy, the way you enjoy them, you'll do well," so much as I got the, "Life isn't meant to be easy or fun" line.
All this is part of an ongoing word vomit of an internal dialogue I've been maintaining for the last few months in an effort to get my head straight and start living life to my standards, not to everyone else's.
Knowing, for example, that not being in tune with other peoples' emotions does not make me a bad person, is helpful. Understanding that taking a long time to give a thoughtful answer is just my way of being, is empowering. It's nice not to think of myself as a sociopath or any one of many DSM categories.
This isn't all just from me figuring out my MBTI category, but having the "INTP" title kinda sums up the last 10 years of my life. I like having a concise way of saying that.
Concise explanations aren't really my style (obviously).
I look forward to talking to you guys, it's been a while since I did the forum-socializing thing.
(PS, how popular is Mr. Robot on this forum, amiright?)
