Things INTJs say and do:

• “I don’t care.”
• *annoyed muttering while they fix someone else’s mess*
• *highkey really care about the people they love*
• “I know.” Varying tones. Can somehow be a compliment, insult, and/or a statement of fact depending on how they say it.
• “You sure about that?”
• “Honestly, -insert brutal opinion here-”
• *blank stare into your soul*
• Highkey will fite anyone if given a decent reason.
• Purposely condescending tone when you make them angry.
• STUBBORN

Feel free to add more.

INTJ, driving: Where are we going next?

ENTP: You choose.

INTJ: Meh. I don’t really care.

ENTP:INTJ.

INTJ:What?

ENTP: Pick somewhere.

INTJ: I. Don’t. Care.

ENTP:INTJ.

INTJ:You can’t make me care.

Both:…

INTJ: That was a very INTJ thing to say, wasn’t it?

ENTP:Yep.

INxJ: Heart of a dreamer, mind of the deepest cynic.

Something I’ve noticed about an INFJ friend and I is that we both love to dream about the future. Bright, hopeful futures, filled with love and happiness, and all the things we want in life. We like to talk about these futures too. However, the conversation almost always ends with a depressing “Yeah like that’s ever gonna happen,” because while we want these futures with every fiber of our soul, our mind knows all to well how impossible our dreams are.

That, I think, is one reason why INTJs and INFJs are generally so depressed or prone towards depression. These dueling mentalities are not kind to each other, nor are they kind to the INxJ. It is a cruel tug of war between heart and mind every. single. day.

Our heart yearns for an impossible future, a place where our dreams come true (sometimes the dream itself isn’t beyond reason, but circumstances prevent it from occurring), and we’re content. At the same time, our mind screams that it is never going to happen and we should just settle down and get used to whatever hand in life we’ve been dealt, because the likelihood of it changing is minimal.

It goes on every day, and it is difficult to deal with.

INTJ: *something makes their cold, dark, shriveled heart feel something, causing them to tear up*

INTJ: Oh god why am I crying

INTJ: This is illogical

INTJ: I don’t like this

INTJ: INFJ make it stop

INFJ:

ENTP and INTJ: *driving in a car*

INTJ: *thinking in their corner*

INTJ: I just came up with the perfect way to get away with murder.

ENTP: Oh my god, INTJ.

INTJ:…

ENTP: Are you gonna tell me or not???

*ENTP and INTJ at a park*

ENTP: Are those electrical wires on that pole exposed?

INTJ:… Yes?

ENTP:…

INTJ:…

ENTP: Imma go touch them and-

INTJ:No.

Thank you for 500 followers!

In honor of this important occasion, I am going to do something that, as an INTJ, I don’t do enough.

Free hugs for everyone! Yay!!!! Oh god I’m gonna die

…

No, guys. I’m serious. I’m actually offering free hugs. Take advantage of it while you can. It’s not going to happen again.

mindjumpthoughts:

me-is-an-intj:

Ask an INTJ

I do this periodically. If you have a question for an INTJ about stereotypes, relationships, behavioral traits, and stuff like that, feel free to drop an ask in my inbox!

I know this isn’t your inbox but I want to create conversation about this to my blog:

My brother is an INTJ, and I’m getting worried of him. He is working as an math researcher, is pretty good at it and even travels because of his job to tell about his reasults to other countries. I am proud of him, but he is awfully alone.

I know he is a social person: we shared friends and would always hang out when we were younger. We would play role playing games together, and he would love to be the game master. But now we live far away (9 hour time difference) and I follow from far away how he slowly isolates himself from all human connection, digging deeper and deeper to computer games. I think it’s a good hobby, but right now it’s all in his life.

I want to help, but my methods are not always the best. I have suggested him to find game groups for boardgames or dnd, not only online. He is really lazy to step out of his comfort zone, and does not put energy at all to “finding friends” (I used to include him always to my friend gatherings so he got used to the fact that things just happened?)

I am too close to the situation to see it clearly. What do you think my brother would want me to do, and do you think what he wants is good for him?

-concerned ENFP little sister

Ha. My older brother (who is, ironically enough, an ENFP) has a similar problem with me. He keeps trying to find me new friends, and I personally am completely neutral on the whole thing.

I think a lot of times you guys tend to forget that we are very comfortable being by ourselves. As long as we know people love us (like our siblings) we don’t really need a whole lot of interaction. Granted, that doesn’t mean he should be alone and isolated from human contact, but I don’t think you need to worry too much. If it becomes unhealthy, the occasional gentle nudge from you to be social should eventually snap him out of it. It’s just a slow process.

Dnd is a good lure to get him out of hermit mode. Maybe find people you know irl that he can play with online? It’s not the same, sure, but eventually it might move him to actually go to someone’s house or a comic store or something and do it irl.

Hope I’ve been of some help!

The types as things they’ve said in my presence:

INFJ: Do you think that will hurt their feelings??

ENFJ: I’m great at boosting other people’s self esteem! Keep me around.

INFP: Do you think if fairys were real they’d be like the ones in fairy tales, or the really evil creatures that steal babies?

ENFP: *while running errands* OH! Let’s go to that plant nursery. I want to buy some flowers!

ENTP: What? Are you saying you don’t like my driving? You think I’m gonna crash?

INTP: *shaking a Tupperware container* This dish empty!

INTJ, in response to INTP: *perfectly monotone voice* Yeet.

ENTJ: *claps hands together* Okay so let’s do this. *continues to instruct people on how to do a thing*

ISFJ: I made pie for you guys. One for each of you.

ESFJ: I didn’t hurt your feelings did I? I feel like I hurt your feelings (Don’t worry, ESFJ. According to the internet, I don’t have feelings. You’re good).

ISFP: Fam. My dude. My man. My bruh. Turn signals were invented for a reason.

ESFP: Okay, we’re going to Chipotle now.

ISTP: Yeah no, actually- *launches into a long lecture about why whatever the person just said was wrong*

ESTP: You’ve got to be kidding me.

ISTJ: *intense sighing* *Looks at person like they’re an idiot*

ESTJ: *Intense sighing* *proceeds to tell person why they’re an idiot*

*A Thing™ happens and someone INTJ cares about gets upset*

INTJ: This person is upset. I should do something.

INTJ: Should I hug them? No, no its not that serious. They’re not crying.

INTJ: Maybe I should just ignore it?

INTJ: Crap they’re almost crying. Crap. What do I do.

INTJ:…

INTJ: *awkwardly pats the upset person and then pretends nothing happened*

enfp-and-intj:

me-is-an-intj:

Things your INTJ wish you knew

We know we can be jerks, but we desperately want you to know how much we love you.

We actually get our feelings hurt very easily, but we’ll never let you know that.

We want to talk about our emotions, but it is very, very difficult for us. When asked to say what we’re feeling, our minds draw a complete blank, and we just don’t know how to express it, so we generally just end up either refusing to speak about it, or end up muttering a lot of nonsense. It’s like a wall goes up in our mind preventing us from expressing ourselves.

We’re actually incredibly insecure and terrified of the people we love leaving us, despite our generally prideful exterior.

We notice when you’re hurting, even if we don’t say anything.

We notice a lot about people’s emotions, actually. While INFJs definitely hold the trophy when it comes to who reads people better, INTJs aren’t far behind, we’re just a lot more quiet about it. Why say anything if it isn’t important?

We put up our “cold sarcastic charismatic” persona as a protection, and what we really want is someone who cares enough to try and get past it.

Please be patient with us, we’re trying.

{ INTJ }

To add to this,

• We’re humans. So, sometimes we do make the wrong decision of becoming a jerk instead of dealing with the situation rationally. I don’t think there’s any justification to that so we apologize. However, you might think we don’t feel bad (due to our straight face/monotonous voice) but trust me, we do. We beat ourselves up after the incident for probably a week or more. And it hurts when you claim we don’t just because we don’t fall dramatically to your feet begging for forgiveness. We deal with guilt inside, in our internal monologue - that’s where we reflect, improve and change ourselves. We might do extra nice things for you too to make up for it but please don’t claim we don’t ‘feel bad’. 
• Yeah, we wouldn’t really tell you that you’re being hurtful or offensive. It’s almost like saying we’re vulnerable for being affected by what you did or said. We’d most likely be silent about it (but we wouldn’t be passive-aggressive). We’d just be less energetic. As ENFP described me when I’m in this state; I’d become barely audible and would avoid any eye contacts. That’s the sign when INTJ is upset. But with enough interrogation we’d open up. 
• Explaining our emotions to someone feels like writing an essay. It doesn’t take 3 minutes. It takes hours to construct the introduction, body and conclusion. When we finish writing it, we’ll tell you. But when we haven’t, we’d just be stuck on the introduction without any content because obviously we haven’t though about it. 
• We actually remind ourselves that a relationship with someone is a 50/50 risk. We prepare ourselves for chances of failure and the pain. Instead of saying “he won’t leave” I’d say, “he may leave and I’d be upset, but I’ll be okay” - if that makes sense. I’d say that my insecurity is well-planned and backed up in case of an emergency. 
• The reason we’re not saying anything is because our straight face and monotonous voice might just worsen things (because it did for me). 
• Yeah, we can read people easily but will only say it when it’s necessary. 
• We dealt with too many rejections so we added our defenses. 
• Patience is one thing, understanding is another. Seeing you putting effort to get us or deal with us, would probably be the sweetest thing. 

*reblogs my own post for this addition*