Hello everyone

[mgb]

Hi,

I just found out I was an INTP a little while ago. That revelation was quite an eye opener. Kind of brought things into focus a bit which was nice.

This seems like a pretty good website to talk about stuff that a lot of people just don't care to listen to which is pretty exciting.

I am 27, live in Calgary in Canada. I don't say eh very much at all.

I am not really sure what else to say right now. I'll let my discussion posts get me in trouble. :)

[SheepDog]

Tell us about yourself.

[mgb]

Ok.

I found out I was an INTP as I went on a quest to find out what I should do when I grow up. That was about a month ago. The first test I took pegged me as an INTJ. Seemed to make sense until I took another more comprehensive test and realized that the P made a little more sense for me especially since everything gets done at the last minute.

I grew up in a family of Guardians. That was a lot of fun. Maybe "fun" isn't the right word. Maybe "not fun" would be better. Maybe "brutal" would be even better than that.

I have a degree in Political Philosophy. Unfortunately that doesn't translate well into employable job skills (at least to most people) so I am currently unemployed. I am back is school though going after a history degree. I think I might want to be a college professor but architect is looking not bad. I like the task oriented aspect of that.

As for leisure time. I love playing board games, especially Settlers. I recently found out I can play it online, ouch, watch my GPA go down.

My friends are pretty much all NTs or NFs. I guess its not weird but it definetly makes me feel less isolated, which is nice.

I am six feet tall and I have a ENFP girlfriend and a cat of indeterminate personality. I would say she in introverted though. Ok that was bad joke but you encouraged me to ramble so you really brought this on yourself.

Politically I would say I am pretty left leaning. However as far as dogmas go I would probably describe myself as a nihilist. I am not religious at all and find a great deal of fault in science, plus I just like the sound of it.

If I missed something important let me know.

[xavierd]

Welcome mgbradsh.

[Boneca]

Welcome! :hello:

I'm fascinated with INTP's who grew up in Guardian families and still have enough enthusiasm to walk around among people. Where to you get the energy from?

[mgb]

I suppose I always found away to hide in the shadows in a lot of ways. Didn't always work though.

I think its a few things that let me get by. Most importantly would be friends. Late in high school and going into university I met people that I could relate to, that really helped with the estrangement.

But I would say recently there has been two factors. Realizing how wrong my parents have always been about me because it would be impossible for them to ever be able to relate to me and the other was realizing that its ok to have absolutely nothing to do with those parents.

The first part of that came from my mom reading about Myers Briggs and me watching her fail to comprehend what was glaringly obvious about my personality profile. Then nagging me made it really easy to walk away. My dad made things a lot easier than that a year ago by suing me, so now he is the Plaintiff. My sister and I never got along. I really can't justify the phrase, "blood is thicker than water," anymore.

I suppose if I had to answer the question in two words I would say anger and detachment.

[Boneca]

It is sad when it has to go that far.
For me it was the other way around - my (IN) parents were the only people I could relate to as a kid. I was more than happy to lose my childhood "friends" as a grew up and met new people.

I hope you will do well even without support from your family. But at least you know now that there is a whole bunch of us out here... ;)

[mgb]

Thanks :)

But really, what can you do? C'est la vie.