Priam
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- INTP
This topic is making me feel like an INFP.
I just don't feel the way you seem to feel.
I am in touch with my emotions, I know what they are, I am not afraid of them or resentful of them, they are solid and consistent, and I don't have a problem showing them to people who are good in my book.
I'm interested in other peoples' feelings, and I empathize with them.
I understand the importance of trying to get a point across without causing offense.
Criticism hurts me, though I think it is necessary, and I do my best to tolerate it.
All kinds of stuff like that. It seems that so much of what people(including other INTPs) say about INTP feelings is different from mine.
All interesting in itself and I feel like that's what I've been fighting to say this whole time myself. Except for the criticism thing, which I didn't even consider at the time but would align with you on. I would say that, while diplomacy is a vital trait, if the choice came down to a vital truth delivered a "harsh" way or not said at all, I always try to choose truth and then mitigate the pain in follow-up. I really think that's all type is: a tendency in how to view and do things when life puts us in rather "either-or" situations, but mostly we all have the ability to choose on a gradient and balanced people try to stay away from utter extremes.