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[INTP] INTP first impressions

Helios

Member
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Dec 28, 2008
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273
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INTP
Ok. This is something of a two tier question. For INTP's, how do you think people usually perceive you when they first meet you, or very early in a relationship? What goes on in your head, with your analysis of how other perceive you?

I really am quite clueless regarding how people perceive me upon meeting me, though I expect it includes opinions that I am demure, bashful and a little cold. Perhaps, also, that I'm fairly intelligent.
 

CrystalViolet

lab rat extraordinaire
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Oct 24, 2008
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XNFP
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5w4
Instinctual Variant
sx/sp
I meant about your self perception....your clothing choices speak loud and clear, LOL.
Groovejet, I've only identinfied male INTP's...maybe one older female INTP when I think about it.
 

jellyfish

New member
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Feb 9, 2009
Messages
56
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INTP
It really depends on how I feel.
I once struck up a conversation with a complete stranger because they were wearing a band shirt I liked. I was warm, made jokes, and actually laughed and smiled. This was in a group of a girl I knew as a loose acquaintance a few years ago, and 2 complete strangers. I think I came off as quite extroverted in this scenario. Looking back, I'm not quite sure how I did it, or why.
In general, I'm aloof, quiet, and seemingly either a very angry or sad person, apparently.
I don't smile when I talk to people and I either stare at someone by accident or look away. Someone once told me I scared them.
Whenever I see someone I used to know for the first time in a few years, they seem shocked at my seemingly confident, straightforward, opinionated and "creepy" appearance.
In a situation outside of school I come off as extroverted and strange, I think. If it's someone I think I'll never see again I act like I know them already.
If I'm somewhere I don't want to be, I act antisocial and retreat into my own world, either by reading/studying or just ignoring them.
 

Ulaes

loopy
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Jan 11, 2009
Messages
850
MBTI Type
crak
Enneagram
sax
people usually open up with 'cheer up, edge'
 

lazyhappy

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Nov 5, 2007
Messages
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For INTP's, how do you think people usually perceive you when they first meet you, or very early in a relationship?

They probabley percieve that i'm quite an awkward individual with a mummbelling problem I think -.-.....
 

Herr Strabenhauser

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Feb 13, 2009
Messages
9
MBTI Type
INTP
I've had all sorts of reactions, and they all surprise me equally. Lots of people feel sorry for me, I suppose I just have one of those faces. Some people think I'm intimidating, some an arrogant jerk. The weirdest was probably the hostess of a new year's eve party who was "honored to be visited someone of such erudition and insight" or something to that effect. Having been high as a kite on ecstacy, marijuana and alcohol all night I had to go hide in the bathroom to laugh it off.
 
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