'We're notorious for our sardonic,  dark,  dry sense of reality.  It's not that we don't care,  it's that we don't like patronizing people or sugarcoating shitty situations for the most part.  If he's...|||Dear God.  Alright,  let's see.   When you see a beautiful painting of the countryside with a little cottage,  does it make you want to have sexual intercourse with it? One can appreciate beauty...|||As an Asexual,  I would describe it as being a lack of sexual attraction to either gender.  It sounds like you're a heterosexual with a low sex drive.  Using myself as an example,  I completely...|||I only seem to go along with ISTP because it seems to least inaccurate of the 16 types.  So many stereotypes I don't match.  Thankfully type is about functions and not stereotypes.|||Demand to be allowed to drink the rest of their coffee.|||You're an introvert.  You need alone time to be healthy.  If people are going to make you feel like shit for that they don't exactly sound like great people to be around,  honestly.|||Hmm.  I'm not sure.|||The differential diagnosis is essentially the perfect model for the combination of Ti and Ne.  Start with an explosion of ideas and eliminate them down using TI to figure out which of those ideas are...|||Sherlock uses a ton of Ti but he also uses an ungodly amount of extroverted intuition.  He has to be either an INTP or an ENTP.  There is no other option.  Considering how oblivious he is to his...|||While i wouldn't say all,  or even most ISTPs fall into this category of avoiding conflict,  i've certainly seen it in plenty of ISTPs.  Enough to say it's not /that/ uncommon.  Actually,  I find...|||Oh shit,  I had something for this...|||I judge them.|||Wanna go on a date?|||Type has less impact on religion that most people seem to think.   Take for example Fi,  which makes judgement based on internally held values.  You might think a person who used a lot of this...|||INTJs and ISTPs have a very different set of cognitive functions.  Things like,  I am not overly organized, or,  I'm unpredictable, are not very helpful.  These mean different things to different...|||What doesn't kill me?  Had better. start. running.|||Exactly what he's said.   Thing is,  if this is going to turn into a larger issue....  If this is something you know you can't really do.  Do NOT under any circumstances pretend to be okay.  It...|||That's the point.  Any killing that happens in front of me,  or prettymuch any member of my family (we're all kind of like this...) would not be free of consequence.|||To be perfectly honest,  this movie just seems like a load of propaganda bullshit.  The basic idea that the second it was legal to murder someone everyone would go on a killing spree.  ...As though...|||MBTI isn't about defining people but understanding the mechanics of how they think.  It's only 1 aspect of them.    At any rate,  the personality tests are designed so that the person taking them...|||Oh for crying out lou-  The types are quite different.   Take this:  Jungian Cognitive Function Quiz    Do you use Extraverted sensing or Introverted sensing?|||Ah,  dear INTJs.  You seem to be making the assumption here that this is a 1 sided problem rather than a joined communication issue between you and a type you are very,  very different from.  I'm not...|||My parents are an INTJ and an INFJ.  Guess who had developed their 3rd function by age 10?  ._.|||Introversion and Extraversion do not work that way.  Introversion is a mindset where thought processes focus internally,  often by comparing or matching things with other things.  When you're using...|||Unless you feel like you want to destroy him.   >.>   ISTPs are rather classically offbeat and strange in various ways.  Especially during childhood.  I have it on good authority I was a terror in...|||Okay,  a quick note on IQ.  First of all,  it is rather unlikely the school is running real IQ tests to begin with, and even less likely they're being administered by a professional.  That being...|||I don't know that guard fully comes down for me.  There's always some inhibition.  Maybe I've just never had enough in me.  I've never got to be black-out drunk... And don't really want to.  ...|||Okay,  so by far the least qualified person to talk about sex here being that i have no interest in it.  But,  you keep saying over and over again in your post that you take him at his word because...|||Yes.|||Well, okay.  I don't think this is really on topic to be honest.  But it sounds more like a general communication issue than anything to do with sex.  If someone starts sexual activity without the...|||Oh,  I wasn't trying to suggest that ISTPs are all asexual by any means.  I was just responding to the claim that cognitive function preference could not possibly impact someone's... Well.  Urges. ...|||It's kind of interesting how anytime someone brings up being generally disinterested in Sex,  others rush to call it a physiological or anatomical problem,  or deep-seated psychological issues.   ...|||:rolleyes:|||Whoa,  not always...  =  Sometimes I get the feeling someone's just going to keep talking no-matter what I do.  At least if they're talking about themselves they aren't asking questions about me. ...|||http://gifsoup.com/view2/1605448/alright-ahm-o.gif|||...So you think personality types are based on the test?  ...What?   O.o  The Test doesn't say anything. It's a tool designed to tell you your personality type.  It doesn't define what the...|||http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0152/1201/files/BAC_chart_grande.jpg%3F6   These charts are usually made from a politically charged standpoint... Keep that in mind.  MADD is notorious for...|||So,  I figure this is one of those threads where I either confused a lot of people over my own type,  or am very pleasantly surprised to find out how many ISTPs relate.  Typically in discussions...|||I start feeling normal...  I can relax and be silly and slap happy.  I don't ever get smashed or anything.  I like having a few beers,  I like vodka martinis,  and i like scotch.   But I also...|||D:|||Glenlivet 15.   :D|||I think Ni is really under-appreciated sometimes.|||Also,  sorry.  Your first function is designed not to take in facts,  but,  to make judgement and come up with theories.  Your second,  and third functions are the ones that take in information. ...|||As it turns out,  NSA were just using my cell phone to do it instead.  Makes more sense i guess.  Fairly more simple than the toaster.  (Although,  frankly,  i wouldn't put much past them at this...|||Do any of you fine ISTPs have chronic or lifelong illness,  disability,  or pain?  If so,  any tips on how you handled finding out about it,  and how you deal with the day to day?  How did you get...|||Well,  yes.  That's the point.  Autism exists whether or not it is observed by others.  Whether or not a persons choices have any impact on anyone else or on their life,  they still have autism.  So...|||qft   Jungian Cognitive Function Quiz  Post results.|||I'm talking about a hypothetical controlled environment where autism could not exist by it's current diagnostic criteria.  The reasoning for how they wound up in this environment is  completely and...|||The problem i keep coming to in this line of thinking is that it implies that if your life consisted of sitting in a locked,  padded,  dark box with no human interaction and no responsibilities,  you...|||Oi,  relax.  I actually quite like INTPs myself.  I tend to get along with them in general.  They're quite nice people usually.  The only thing is that in long term friendships I have a hard time...'