[cottoncamby]

I mean at work, sometimes I feel as if I'm acting. I'm goofing off, I'm making jokes and references on a good day.

Yup. That's how it is for me. People flat out don't believe I'm an introvert. Glad to know I'm not alone.

[Twigs]

When your coping mechanisms are avoidance and humour.

[RetroVortex]

When your coping mechanisms are avoidance and humour.

When you're really good. You can do both at the same time! :D

[Malikarcanum]

I don't know if this is just me, but does anyone ever feel like a switch is flipped whenever they get over their nerves and doubts and perform.

Because I do that.
I mean, normally if I have to do something by myself it doesn't quite work because I get really nervous and shakey, but say you are in a good group, you've prepared well, and you are up there, doing a presentation, do you ever just get that rush? that desire to perform?

Like you are possessed or something. The ideas come out, they come alive when you say them, and you can even answer the questions people throw at you since your mind can suddenly process the connections and craft answers on the fly.

I mean at work, sometimes I feel as if I'm acting. I'm goofing off, I'm making jokes and references on a good day.

I wonder if thats how comedians and artists feel...

All the time, any time I'm in a high pressure social situation.


For instance, there's a Thrash band called Forbidden that's one of my favorites of all time. I got tickets to one of their shows, & also had a meet & greet with them all. For the whole day before the show I was geeking out & worrying about what I'd say, fearing that I'd clam up.


Then the time came. We went to the venue, they called is backstage, & there they were, my idols, in the flesh. At this point my brain is going "Oh god, oh god oh god oh go-"


Then all of a sudden it all stopped, & my mind went completely blank. Literally like a switch was flipped. Suddenly I was engaging them all in deep discussion, asking them a million questions about albums, songs, etc, while everybody else was just like "Hey, I really love your shit, man. Can you sign this?" They liked me enough to invite me back to their tour bus after the show to hang (Which I didn't get to do, because my cousin, who was my ride, had to work in the morning).

After the conversation I had very little recollection of anything I'd said. My cousin had to remind me what I'd said to them. It was like I went on auto-pilot & suddenly became this completely different super engaging & extroverted version of me for about 5 minutes.

One of the more bizarre experiences I've had.

[arsenal92]

how about when
being the 100% version of yourself and potential every day is basically what you strive for in life's fulfillment.

u wake up and can instantly place your mood, and basically what you'll be open to /closed to... and what might help get you into a different mood state?


they seem/prolly are universal, but i think u guys'll know what i mean?

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[IAmOrangeToday]

When you consider telling people you're gay just so they won't be so damn eyebrowsy when you talk to a member of the opposite sex, but then realise that's a lie and LIES ARE EVILLL

[Scarlet Clover]

@IAmOrangeToday I had a friend who lied that she liked somebody XD
But honestly she lied so everybody would stop asking her
She lied to me too a month later saying she was in love and she felt a dark hole growing that she wouldn't see him in high school

I liked her. XP and she knew it and didn't tell me (not good at hiding feelings even though I do)

Sometimes I look at my p an think HOW DID I DEAL WITH THAT?

[Twigs]

When you take the words "you wouldn't understand" as a huge insult.

"It's complicated, you wouldn't understand."
"TRY ME."

[Twigs]

You're watching water polo and you start to wonder where the pool water came from and if pool water misses the outdoors and/or feels inferior to outside water. And wouldn't it be neat if you could track a water molecule to see where it goes and how often it turns to vapor or clouds or rain or ice, or people. And you think about all the organic matter that gives life and sustains it and how it's probably been everywhere and everything on the planet at some point. And then you think about how you are literally a tree, a deer, a river, a mountain, the earth, the sun, the stars, space dust... and who knows what else that we can't even conceive of. And you think about the vastness of space and the sheer absurdity of it all. And what the hell are those funny things over their ears on the polo caps?

Yup.

This is basically my thought process. God forbid I ever need to get anything done.
Is there a job where you can just sit and think about things all day but not actually have to do anything??

[tof]

You did all the free MBTI tests you could find on the internet... just for fun and in case you ever doubt of your INFPness...