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[INTP] You know you're an INTP when...

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ENTP
...your flittering mannerisms fluctuate between giggling uncontrollably and mortified silence.

...you swear you're feeling the onset of a cardiac arrest when the word "group work" is mentioned, especially when it concerns you.

...you can barely control the urge to correct the girl named "Sara", because her name clearly lacks that silent 'H' which is oh-so needed.

...it doesn't matter if someone mocks your style of dress, but a rebuke towards your competence in work/school brings a crashing wave of acute depression.

nah, you were close with the last one, but they're all too dramatic. Uncontrollable giggling? Mortified? Cardiac arrest? Urges? Acute depression? Sounds like an ENFP
 

Grungemouse

Widdles in your cream.
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INTP
Enneagram
5
nah, you were close with the last one, but they're all too dramatic. Uncontrollable giggling? Mortified? Cardiac arrest? Urges? Acute depression? Sounds like an ENFP

Well that makes a lot of sense; I'm PMSing.
 

Willfrey

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Nov 9, 2008
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615
MBTI Type
IsTP
Your bills stay hidden underneath three books you read halfway through. If you can't see them they aren't there, right?

Or your ability to rattle off a random fact about any topic never ceases to confuse people.
 

Siegfried

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?
The fine tuning of the subject matter's "precise" or "accurate" definition, becomes very important to your viewpoint, when you debate.
 

Cypocalypse

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Jan 26, 2008
Messages
252
MBTI Type
eNtP
Enneagram
4w5/
You know you are a dork, but you find it weird that you are not after high grades, and you are not exactly that math bookworm either. And then you start thinking that you're probably a maverick dork, and keeps on wondering why your Ti works better than everyone else's.
 

Darjur

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INTJ
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5
Once you notice, that you use a system of authority, that is completely different from the general socially expected one and is completely incompatile to it.

You question and are prepared to drop all traditions on whimsical reasons.

Nothing is sacred for you. All bonds can be severed easily, nothing is beyond scrutiny.

You think about stuff, but you don't really care about anything unless it's a point of major interest.

The stuff you don't use, if left somewhere in the room that doesn't put it dead smack in your face 24/7, becomes completely invisible to your perception of the room and it only reappears once you try to either analyze the whole structure of a room (which doesn't happen more, than 3 times in a year) or happen to have a need to reuse the item once again.

You didn't notice that Spock was supposed to be a parody character until someone mentioned that to you.

You have a way of speech that seems somewhat phlegmatic and your general look

You can emulate almost all variations of social behavior nearly flawlessly, but none of which come to you naturally. Be it body language, charisma, flirting, sense of etiquette or another, keeping them "on" for sustained periods of time requires a great deal of energy after which you just want to just freeze while being alone in a room.

You feel weird when reading a post that has several emoticons in it.

You want to brutally murder someone, if they are telling you information that is "self-explainable" in high detail and are repeating themselves while doing it.
 

Martoon

perdu fleur par bologne
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INTP
  • If you really are a human being, not a human doing.
  • When you wrote several forum posts but considered them silly in the end and threw them away...
  • ...just to notice a few days later that they weren't as dumb as you thought.
  • Generally if you change your mind that often that no one knows what you're all about, not even yourself.
  • If you never finish your...
+1
Or +5, as it were. Let's just go with *2.
(Is this even worth posting?)

Well that makes a lot of sense; I'm PMSing.
Maybe we need a "You know you're a PMSing INTP when..." thread.


Darjur, you had some good ones in there, too.
 

Sunshine8

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ENFJ
You know you're dealing with an INTP when...

They are standing back and observing things without getting into the fray...with either a look of impatience, boredom, or amusement.

When they only only have four facial expressions:
Concentration
Irritation
Boredom
Amusement

They look like they could do with a hug, slap and/or tickle but they are too scary to try it on (big boundaries defended by bazookas!)

You only get the joke they played on you ten minutes down the track...
 

spirilis

Senior Membrane
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INTP
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9w1
Instinctual Variant
sp/sx
They are standing back and observing things without getting into the fray...with either a look of impatience, boredom, or amusement.

When they only only have four facial expressions:
Concentration
Irritation
Boredom
Amusement

They look like they could do with a hug, slap and/or tickle but they are too scary to try it on (big boundaries defended by bazookas!)

You only get the joke they played on you ten minutes down the track...

:rofl1: love it!
 

Martoon

perdu fleur par bologne
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INTP
They look like they could do with a hug, slap and/or tickle but they are too scary to try it on (big boundaries defended by bazookas!)
Lol. Especially that one.

And FYI, we can also do smug. So there. (See? I'm doing it right now.)
 

Kaizer

sophiloist
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INTp
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5w4
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sx/sp
The fine tuning of the subject matter's "precise" or "accurate" definition, becomes very important to your viewpoint, when you debate.

+10

the approximated certainty principle
 

bluebell

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You can emulate almost all variations of social behavior nearly flawlessly, but none of which come to you naturally. Be it body language, charisma, flirting, sense of etiquette or another, keeping them "on" for sustained periods of time requires a great deal of energy after which you just want to just freeze while being alone in a room.

Yep, and if you're thinking hard then you forget to do it and then have to pick up the pieces again later.

You feel weird when reading a post that has several emoticons in it.

:hi: + :newwink: + :smile: = :sick: unless used ironically.
 

Xander

Lex Parsimoniae
Joined
Apr 24, 2007
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INTP
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9w8
When enthusiasm is as much a demotivator as it is encouragement.
When you think that 'concept' is a synonym for 'plan'.
When you agonise over how to precisely word your thoughts on "You know you're an INTP when...".
When you post only half of what you mean and then wonder why everyone.
 

sade

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Mr. Know-it-all in your area of interest, but everything else.. meh. Unless it interests you.
You are listening to someone pondering, and grasp on to an idea they've given immediately trying to test and strech it.
 

livinglife

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intp
...You have a drawer full of letters you wrote but never mailed, and yet you still half expect people to answer them.
 

freebird

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INTP
...You have a drawer full of letters you wrote but never mailed, and yet you still half expect people to answer them.

Agreed. Or when you have a specific conversation with someone in your head a few times, you can avoid actually having the conversation out loud with them.
 

blanclait

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^
woah that i never do. seems like there's lot of different intps
 

Twixt

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ISTP
...you unconsciously (or uncaringly) 'lead others on' with your ambivalence.

...you are a champion of the one-liner.

...you (sometimes?) reject feelings as ridiculously variable/unpredictable and illogical, and look with distaste at anyone who suffers from such an affliction... luckily you don't have any feelings!

...you are often late.

one word: procrastinator.
[when its not something you're particularly interested in.]

(are these correct?)
 

Eruca

78% me
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INxx
Enneagram
5w4
Instinctual Variant
sx/sp
...you unconsciously (or uncaringly) 'lead others on' with your ambivalence.

...you are a champion of the one-liner.

...you (sometimes?) reject feelings as ridiculously variable/unpredictable and illogical, and look with distaste at anyone who suffers from such an affliction... luckily you don't have any feelings!

...you are often late.

one word: procrastinator.
[when its not something you're particularly interested in.]

(are these correct?)

I have feelings. ='( You hurt them!

Only kidding.

I believe the difference is that Fs live their feelings, whereas a T will have feelings but supress them. I can't speak for others but I don't trust my feelings. If you let them run free--as Fs appear to be let theirs--they can only hurt you and those around you.

People think of feelings as love, joy, and compassion. But remember that feelers are just as vulnerable to hate, jealousy, and anger as they are to positive emotions.
 
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