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Originally Posted by heart
The painfulness for me with most S types in my family life has been their assumption that I am stupid because they cannot understand me and I find it hard to make myself understood. They get impatient, cut me off, attempt to apply what little I was able to get out before they cut me off to something concrete from their own personal experience and take me far more literally than I intended. I feel like I am shouting into the wind with some of them. I don't mind taking the time to explain myself to someone, but if they won't listen and have their minds already made up that I am talking vague nonsense, then it is hard to have patience or sympathy in return for them.
I have an ISFP friend who is easier to talk to though, although she gets uncomfortable with some of the things I bring up because it gets too abstract and vague for her, so I just try hard not to go into those places with her and we have a fine time together otherwise.
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I know what you mean.
My INFP sister has a Master's degree, and is incredibly good at whatever she does, yet the S types in my family have the gall to make fun of her intelligence, just because they don't "get" her. I don't agree with everything she says either, especially when she starts telling me about the latest conspiracy theory she's subscribed to, but really they're out of line. Thankfully, they don't do it to her face, but I don't see where they get off doing it at all.