[ISFJ] Ask an ISFJ

[Agent Washington]

WHat's your relationship with Ti?

 

[Yama]

How much and how often do you hug people per day?

Zero, I find physical contact quite uncomfortable

WHat's your relationship with Ti?

Ti is the mean function because it doesn't have a filter so everything my Ti does, if unchecked by Fe, is too harsh

 

[Lady Lazarus]

Ti is the mean function because it doesn't have a filter so everything my Ti does, if unchecked by Fe, is too harsh

I think of my Fe as my "mean" function and of Ti as my "detached" or "neutral" function in comparison.

 

[Lord Lavender]

What separates ISFJs from ESFJs?.

 

[Yama]

What separates ISFJs from ESFJs?.

sweats nervously

 

[Unionruler]

How much and how often do you hug people per day?

Nowadays I don't think I get even 1 a week on average. I've always needed them but my close friends are geographically separate from me. And I'm single.

 

[tinker683]

If you had to live on one certain food (endless supply of fresh and purified water is not a problem) what would the food be?

Potatoes. Like Samwise said, I can boil 'em, smash 'em, stick 'em in a stew

Explain this:

I can't, and I would be very sad at you if I had to try

How much and how often do you hug people per day?

Only my wife, and a dozen or so times ago but that's because we're JD-Chris Turk in love

WHat's your relationship with Ti?

I wish I had more of it. Ne too

What separates ISFJs from ESFJs?.

Based on my own experience: ESFJs are bubblier, MUCH more outgoing, and have FAR better taste than me

 

[WeddingMood]

("I won't talk to that person because that person was an asshole to me in elementary school.")

isn't this Fi?

 

[Yama]

isn't this Fi?

Could be both. I don't really get Fi. But I have also found that a lot of people mistake elements of Si and Fi.

 

[Jellyfish1234]

Do you see people's appearances subjectively - like, your memories and experiences with them colour how you see them? I know an ISFJ who says this so just wondering if it's just them or if other ISFJ relate.

 

[Yama]

Do you see people's appearances subjectively - like, your memories and experiences with them colour how you see them? I know an ISFJ who says this so just wondering if it's just them or if other ISFJ relate.

Absolutely, I can relate to your friend. When I see a person I don't just see a person, nor do I just see a collection of familiar facial features or whatnot--I see "my best friend," which is automatically accompanied in my mind by experiences I have shared with this person. So I may think when I see someone, "that's my best friend, even though he'd kind of a dick sometimes because he doesn't follow my rules when he's at my house if he thinks they're stupid, but he also buys me food sometimes when he comes to visit me and ugh that reminds me of the time we watched the concert together and he brought me wendy's and oh my god speaking of concerts there was that time we went to LA together to see that concert and he told me that I make those weird sleep noises, oh my god do I really do that?, he didn't mention it the second time we stayed in a hotel room together, lol I remember at that hotel when there were supposed to be 2 beds and then there was only 1 bed so we..." etc etc. Endless stream of consciousness, lol. Except that it all takes place in about half a second in my mind.

 

[tinker683]

Do you see people's appearances subjectively - like, your memories and experiences with them colour how you see them? I know an ISFJ who says this so just wondering if it's just them or if other ISFJ relate.

Yep, though people's appearances aren't the most notable thing I remember about them (which I suppose further underscores your original question )

 

[Larix]

*revives again*

I have a couple of questions:

1. Are long-distance friendships difficult to sustain if you can't spend time together very often?
2. If someone reacts completely differently than they normally do to something you've said or done a million times, do you find it harder to trust them?

 

[tinker683]

*revives again*

I have a couple of questions:

Yay!

1. Are long-distance friendships difficult to sustain if you can't spend time together very often?

I suppose that depends on what you need from a friendship. With Facebook I've been able to stay in touch with people I literally haven't seen in decades.

2. If someone reacts completely differently than they normally do to something you've said or done a million times, do you find it harder to trust them?

Only if they react negatively and then refuse to tell me WHY they reacted differently this time than the last time. Otherwise, no

 

[1487610420]

ru dabest typ y/n

 

[tinker683]

ru dabest typ y/n

Sometimes, just after lunch

 

[IndigoViolet11]

Let me ask u guys about how you see things,Correct anytbing I said wrong

• You see pictures and images in a very procedural way yet your feelings aren't procedural at all
• Your life is a series yet you feelings are much more than that that you struggle to take a touch of it something that seems to sink quite deep
• Logic is your weakness in the way that you cannot attach a feeling tag on it to remember it.
• You associate *concrete* images to a feeling and attach a tag of how you see it rather than leaving it raw than it is, as if an automatic process
• Intuition is a bother because you cannot associate it to anything tangiable

Currently is what i could get on top of my head

 

[magpie]

If you saw an ant floating on a leaf in a river, would you wade into the turbulent depths to save it?

 

[Yama]

If you saw an ant floating on a leaf in a river, would you wade into the turbulent depths to save it?

i would not

 

[magpie]

i would not