[Skye Renard]

I am INTP and I am finding it more and more frustrating being in this category. Mostly the "I" part in INTP. I find myself very misunderstood and judged harshly compared to my friend who is ENTP [though his personality seems to rub me wrong and we get in a lot of debates (ok sometimes fights)]. I really would like to have more friends though the more I get the more I want to withdraw and stick to my 3 friends. Though at the same time the lack of friends is depressing and I have gotten myself in a slump that I don't want to do hardly anything that makes me happy anymore. Heck I stopped speaking my secondary language of Python to my sexy computer and things have been sad. I just know if I keep going the way I am I cannot be happy in this slump.

[Agent Blackout]

I've definitely spent years feeling that way.
But I decided to get out of my head and keep things around me moving. (b/c I figured my head was where my problems were, and hence most weren't real lol)
Easier said than done I know, haha
But I hope that'll help

[qingdom]

Being INTP isn't all that bad. You have self-sufficiency and self-reliance. We enjoy being loners and we learn skills very quickly.

In a post-apocalyptic world, we make awesome scouts and lookouts.

Our most unique trait is the ability to chameleon into any other types with the most ease than any other types attempting to chameleon into us. Their footprint of E, S, F, or J will not allow them to for long periods to the category of I, N, T, or P. It literally drives them nuts.

Our level of patience may match or even exceed the levels of any other types 'practicing' meditation. We'll just sit with them and raise an eyebrow because to us, it comes natural where they have to 'get into it'.

Would I want a happy pill that can switch me to any other categories at will permanently? No. Although chameleoning takes practice before it can have full natural secondary psyche effect, I wouldn't give up being an INTP for anything else in the known universe.

Although our types may not show instantaneous results when doing things, but when the finished theories becomes real, those end results are a work of marvel. It just takes more time for us than any other types... tradeoffs and such... but hey. such is life.

[cherry blossom]

I don't wish I was a different type, but I do sometimes wish I was better at certain things, like knowing what to do if someone bursts into tears in front of me. I do believe that I have a lot of control over my self development though, so I take responsibility for trying to improve whatever I feel I'm lacking in. Its difficult, but you can change your own behaviour.

[stuff]

Be proud of who you are and your strengths! I've thought about who has it worse, an I or an E. I decided that even though many times I wish I was an E, I don't think I'd like to always be an E. My Boss is an ESTP, that guy can NOT be alone, he HAS to always be planning something. I love that because it gives me something to do and I get to meet with other people if I feel like it. But at the same time it's a bit sad because the guy Can't be alone, it's like he hates it. He looks so sad whenever he had nothing to do on a weekend.

Me on the other hand, I just need me, and I can always find me. I don't get to socialize much but then I just remember how crappy I usually feel after socializing and then I feel better.

[Jennywocky]

I'm happy overall with who I am; but if I had to be an INFJ, I could deal.

[nadjasix]

It's when I read posts like the OP that I wonder if I'm an INTP.

I've never once wished I wasn't an introvert or that I had more friends (in fact, I've consciously cut my circle down plenty of times). I don't have that sense that some INTPs seem to have that other people make no sense socially, although I do get exasperated with their vacuity and pettiness at times. And I don't care at all if people don't like me for being different, as long as they leave me be.

[Agent Blackout]

I just want to clarify about my last post: I wasn't saying there's any weakness in being INTP but that in my experience weakness seemed to stem from strengths overlooked or not tapped into.

Every type has pros/cons.

Hope this helps.

[Think]

I am INTP and I am finding it more and more frustrating being in this category. Mostly the "I" part in INTP. I find myself very misunderstood and judged harshly compared to my friend who is ENTP [though his personality seems to rub me wrong and we get in a lot of debates (ok sometimes fights)]. I really would like to have more friends though the more I get the more I want to withdraw and stick to my 3 friends. Though at the same time the lack of friends is depressing and I have gotten myself in a slump that I don't want to do hardly anything that makes me happy anymore. Heck I stopped speaking my secondary language of Python to my sexy computer and things have been sad. I just know if I keep going the way I am I cannot be happy in this slump.

Anyone wish they weren't INTP? Definitely not.

But, sometimes I do wish I can get along very nicely with somebody other than my computer. By that, I mean a girl. But, that phase passes off quickly. And about friends, I have a few friends and don't intend to have more.

[Think]

Our most unique trait is the ability to chameleon into any other types with the most ease than any other types attempting to chameleon into us. Their footprint of E, S, F, or J will not allow them to for long periods to the category of I, N, T, or P. It literally drives them nuts.

Our level of patience may match or even exceed the levels of any other types 'practicing' meditation. We'll just sit with them and raise an eyebrow because to us, it comes natural where they have to 'get into it'.

Would I want a happy pill that can switch me to any other categories at will permanently? No. Although chameleoning takes practice before it can have full natural secondary psyche effect, I wouldn't give up being an INTP for anything else in the known universe.

Although our types may not show instantaneous results when doing things, but when the finished theories becomes real, those end results are a work of marvel. It just takes more time for us than any other types... tradeoffs and such... but hey. such is life.

One of my friends had told me, 'you can be a really good actor'.

I think an INTPs life is like a musical performance, you have to sit through the long overtures, to get to the substantial/quality music, you came to listen to.