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[NT] NTPs... do people think you are high?

NTP's, do people often think you are high?


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laintpe

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I have always run into this predicament. The administrative assistant I work with hates me and has been pushing for a drug test... that didn't really surprise me... but I've learned that several other coworkers have asked the only person i talk to if i'm frequently high. A similar case occurred in high school when I was invited to the counselor's office to discuss why three of my teachers thought i was coming to class after taking a few hits (supposedly). students used to offer to buy pot off of me... apparently my demeanor/appearance was that convincing. i've never touched drugs.

can anyone else relate?
 

JonJT

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I can't say this has ever happened to me. But probably because when I looked "spaced out" I had my face behind a book or staring at a computer screen. I have to say, that's quite odd.
 

poppy

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INXPs do sometimes give off kind of a spacey vibe...I could see people occasionally thinking that, if they've never actually seen someone high.
 

Alwar

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Never happened to me. Maybe it is the way you talk, I've been around people who just have a tone of voice that sounds like they are high.
 

laintpe

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people say my eyes change... and then i seem to not know what is going on around me. maybe i'm just losing it.
 

Alwar

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people say my eyes change... and then i seem to not know what is going on around me. maybe i'm just losing it.

Are you thinking or stinking?

Teachers used to ask me that in grade school because I was aloof. Was never accused of being high. It's probably just your demeanor like you said. Challenge the administrative assistant to hand-to-hand combat.
 

INTP

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Nope, usually not even when i am high.
 

Ulaes

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lol, yeah, but not to the extent you described. whats the type of the admin asst. you work with? an esfj "friend" of mine used to be convinced that i was high sometimes and give me a really dirty, disgusted, i-dont-understand-you-so-im-going-to-destroy-you look.
if i went and hung out with a bunch of druggies id imagine theyd peg me as someone who either got high or used to (which im not!). i think i do give of the stoner imgage a bit, just not many people found that title to pin to it.
 

JAVO

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:rofl1: here I thought I was the only one!

I was sent to the counselor in 7th grade, and my lock was cut off several times that year because I was suspected of doing drugs. They called my parents and everything, so I had to go through the parent interrogation thing too. I was high on Ne though, which leaves no trace. :D

I'm sure my high school teachers probably suspected it too.
 

substitute

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Living in California, I must say I'm surprised. I dunno what it's like for real, but over this side of the Atlantic it's famous for being one of the parts of the USA where people are rather liberal and not so easily freaked out by difference and not so insistent on conformity.

Yeah, I now and again get people saying I'm weird and the word "eccentric" has been applied to me many times, but I've never knowingly been thought to actually be taking drugs - even when years ago, I was. Maybe the UK's just more hospitable to eccentricity. *shrug*
 

Nizy

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Sometimes my thought processes make people think I am high. The ideas and theories that some only conceive when blazed out of their minds I manage to produce while completely sober. That and the fact that my train of thought seems to jump all over the place doesn't help my case.

Serves me right for trying to include others in my thought processes.
 

nocebo

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People have asked me if I'm high a few times, but it never became a problem.
They were more like casual questions.

As some people above mentioned, it might have more to do with your demeanor.
 

laintpe

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lol, yeah, but not to the extent you described. whats the type of the admin asst. you work with? an esfj "friend" of mine used to be convinced that i was high sometimes and give me a really dirty, disgusted, i-dont-understand-you-so-im-going-to-destroy-you look.
if i went and hung out with a bunch of druggies id imagine theyd peg me as someone who either got high or used to (which im not!). i think i do give of the stoner imgage a bit, just not many people found that title to pin to it.

i can't tell... "psycho bitch" fits. IXXP
 

jenocyde

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I used to get searched in high school all the time. People always think I'm on something. Meh.
 

laintpe

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I used to get searched in high school all the time. People always think I'm on something. Meh.

it really makes it almost impossible to ever try anything because if you're forced to take a test.... screwed.
 

Tallulah

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Nope, never. But I tend to give off a more focused vibe than some other INTPs. I have known a few spacey ones. I can be ditzy, but never come off high. Sometimes I act drunk when people around me are drunk (not on purpose).
 

Antimony

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All the time. They are surprised to learn I have never done drugs. Ironically, I just put down in the survey thingy that people in high school viewed me as on drugs ahhahaha
 

Nonsensical

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LOL.

My INFP sister is like this too.

INxPs are really out there in their heads sometimes. Gone from the moment, out to lunch, whatever you want to call it.

Makes sense.
 

Antimony

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What is her personality type?
 
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