'Can confirm. The look is great, but corsets are an occupational hazard of being a stage actor and I have a particularly nasty one for the show I'm in right now and I can hardly bend over and put my...|||See, I'm certainly not denying that some differences (whether they be biologically or culturally enforced, and that is another HUGE discussion) do exist, but applying the blanket statement BECAUSE...|||Sometimes I feel like I should just move to an INTP colony so we can all address each other in this manner and use words like poppycock. :laughing:  And ridiculous societal expectations for my...|||Precisely. Being tolerant and cognizant of differences in communication styles (based on any number of factors) is great, but communication and honesty is THE cornerstone of mature relationships for...|||Haha, so true. I guess it's just my wistful NT fantasy that advice so...pervasive and universally accepted could be founded on more logically sound principles. I detest it when the majority of people...|||No offense, but... (especially with a tone of sadistic anticipation for the offensive thing that's about to be said)  Fuck you. You know what's about to come out of your mouth is offensive and...|||Generally, worrying about perception of myself or about hurting others' feelings comes out of concern that things will be made difficult for me in the future and I will have to expend more social...|||I generally have really negative reactions toward both jokes and serious articles that start off If you're a woman/man, you should realize that the opposite gender means [xxxxx] when they say...|||I work in a library - helping people with reference questions, specifically. I'm trying to get a job in software engineering right now, but actually I am an actor and hang out in theatres all the...|||Whether or not I care about things. The feelers in my life tend to accuse me of not being passionate when I approach something in a practical manner; on the contrary- if I'm actually looking at...|||Thanks everyone! You guys really are a wonderful bunch. <3 As an introverted intuitive, I definitely relate to having a very private, rich internal world that sometimes takes me to dark places I...|||So, I'm head over heels for my INFP partner and we live together part-time (read: when I'm not a couple hours away at school). He's continually surprised that I seem pretty good at reading him. He...|||Theatre. So much theatre.  And the description of INTP's as harsh and cutting and blunt about their criticism is so different from what I'll say to people's faces. I often don't think it's my...|||Oh my god oh my god. I feel you. I've struggled with this so hard. Love is a very rare and specific word to me, and my boyfriend seems to throw it around a lot and have a lot of adoration for a lot...|||Thanks so much for the hugs and the in-depth response. <3  I think both of us have come to a realization recently that he often reacts harshly to things in me that he dislikes about his own...|||...Yeah, then I totally feel you. ): I may be a Thinker, but I'm not a robot- I'm prepared to throw everything aside for people I fall in love with and sometimes it feels like they don't even notice....|||...I think I developed my inferior Fe through having a safe space with my INFP. It manifests through adoration of and concern about cute animals and through extreme attentiveness to what's best for...|||I'm afraid my INFP feels like this sometimes. He's gone through more girlfriends than I have boyfriends and has admitted to jumping into some bad relationships because he had the emotional need to be...|||I don't get uncontrollably or even...emotionally angry around other people. If I'm frustrated, I tend to rant and pick situations apart to my roommates, though. I see this as being...|||As an INTP, I'm always sorted into Ravenclaw; I've been sorted into Slytherin occasionally and Hufflepuff once, never Gryffindor.  I identify as a Slytherin. Although my ambitions are pretty...|||I never noticed that I don't really use people's names until my boyfriend and I had a mini-fight about it (and we're the sort of couple that never fights). Now I use his in response to him using...|||Well, I know that; I don't watch with the intent to improve--I watch because it's entertaining. :laughing: But I'm sure it does, though.|||I think I'd be more into games if my mom had let me play them. :rolleyes: As it stands now, I don't have any systems of my own and I suck too much to waste anyone else's time. Not a fan of doing...|||Thanks! He's said some rather similar things about himself, so I think I'm on the right track with my INFP assumptions. Well...even more than I did before, because he's pretty overwhelmingly...|||I love my INFP's whimsical side. I think it's really cute, and it's a huge relief to me that he doesn't take everything too seriously. :) I'm a little envious of my NF friends' comfort with emotions,...|||To answer the titular question, most people really like me for some reason. I don't want to go into the acting theory or the class I was in, but when told to blurt out something about me without...|||Huh. In all honesty...because...why wouldn't I? You can't not pursue knowledge.  ...Can you? O.o I think I'd have to put my fingers in my ears and close my eyes and go lalalalala, I don't want any...|||Oooh, that's gorgeously macabre. 8/10  Edit: And I've realized it fits the color scheme of the little icons below it. 9/10|||I don't think I'd be able to keep a judger happy. I'm super-absentminded, more than a little messy (though the distinction between being neat and being clean is quite important to me), and I have...|||Context: Okay, so I'm in a relationship right now, and it's been a little over a month (longer if you count a brief period of fumbling in which we dated for a bit and then broke it off). I'm 95%...|||Happy: 3 or 8, depending on who I'm with. Socially skilled: 4.5 Lazy: 7 Emotional: 2.5 (I started birth control and the hormonal imbalance sent me up to like a 9 for a day. It was terrifying.)...|||Excuse me while I engage in shameless behavior I learned on tumblr and tacklehug you for your icon.  You're quite right about the moments of wondering how humanity even works, though. I mostly feel...|||That's generally the case...Of course, there's no objective definition.  I, for one, don't write because I'm terrible at it, but since I started getting into television shows (right now, I'm...|||If you spend a lot of time on tumblr (and today we'll be talking about the fandom side of tumblr, which seems to be at some sort of perpetual odds with the hipster side of tumblr), you'll notice that...|||I've been struggling a lot lately and I've decided I'll just see where life takes me. No way I can come out to my family as anything other than heterosexual; I'm sure they would try to be accepting,...|||Wait, other people can actually tell? O.o  I've gotten to the point where I've started to suspect guys might be flirting with me in some situations, but I 100% cannot tell whether I'm misreading...|||I think the show's really cute. Good for a low-budget sitcom--it's not my favorite, but in the intensifying banal, relatable occurrences to absurd levels category of humor that's central to...|||mllefantinejavert.tumblr.com  It's a fandom blog--Once Upon a Time with a bit of House M.D. I find the fandom social scene pretty much the only social scene I have ever enjoyed; probably the...|||Whenever I have a new idea or suddenly see something from a new angle, I jump up and walk very rapidly around the house/my dorm/wherever I am. Or if I'm im-ing someone and I've just typed something I...|||That's an exact description of me. Especially the awkward smiles and glances. Because I do have my everyone please get the hell out of my face days, but if I'm hanging around a big group, chances...|||The Hitchhiker's Guide, of course, everything about it--not so much the recent film, but I appreciate it.  Any Stephen Sondheim lyric; the man is a god.  That Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf thing...|||Crushing hard on Sheriff Graham/The Huntsman and Emma Swan from Once Upon A Time right now.  I have a hardcore crush on Shakespeare's words but none of his characters that I can think of. Hamlet,...|||I can't stand snobbery of any kind--about making sure not to listen to anything that gets radio plays, even if you like it; about making sure not to use certain web browsers for anything, even for...|||RIGHT?! This is the worst. I hate confrontation, especially when messy emotions are involved. Of course, it came back to bite me in the ass when my next boyfriend didn't bother to tell me he'd wanted...|||Happy sigh. I came on this thread anticipating that I would have to defend my obsession with this show. This was the third post.  I love OUAT. It engages me. I'm emotionally attached to a female...|||Actually, they are tabs. O.o And there are 3. Yes. With IE, that's a number of tabs.   Sorry, I'm just confused...|||I'm logged into one YouTube/google account on IE and one on Firefox. xD IE suffices for my lesser-used accounts (ie. the random crap photobucket); Chrome doesn't work for me at all, and Firefox is...|||...but feeler-y friends who will politely say no but then passive-aggressively ignore me.  (If I say someone hasn't bothered me, I feel that I've given up my right to be bothered and try my hardest...|||Oh, I've been there before. It's called living with a parent who can literally spend five hours complaining about her job without letting me finish half a sentence while still demanding that I...|||Yup, I use that strategy, and I'm happy to do it to make people feel comfortable (I'm not a completely selfish person who refuses to talk about others! At least, I hope!)  ...but it's not...'