[neptunesky]

I quite like them! One of my good friends is an INTP and we have amazing conversations. We just click and can babble away with ease. What's even better, we can share comfortable silences! Hurrah! I hate that awkward silence. It's the type where you're sitting there wondering what the hell to talk about that.

Anyway. Them NT types. I find them really easy to talk to, even more than NF sometimes. It's those Sensing types which confuse me. I don't have a lot of N friends, mostly SFPs or SFJs. I get along with them okay but I can never be part of their world. In some way or another, I always feel left out. I sometimes have difficulty connecting with them. Unlike with my NF/NT friends, I can't have the conversations I want to. Sure, we can ramble about some shit but they don't want to take it deeper. I'm not bagging out on the Sensing types, I'm just saying how I feel. But when it comes to talking with my NF/NT friends, I'm at complete peace. Sadly, I don't know a lot of NF/NT's though.

With that said, I can sometimes find NTs a bit soulless but hey, I bet they think I'm overemotional...



I have known mr INTP for seven years now and it's only recently that's it grown even better. I have become more honest with him, more up front... and he loves it. The same with my other Thinking friends (even the STs.) They really do appreciate you being honest, even if is ugly.

How do you feel about NTs? I'm curious.

Sorry for the long post.

[Saboteur]

I'm on the other end but will share my experience anyway:

Two of my three best friends are NFs. One is an INFP and the other, my step-sister, is an ENFJ.

The ENFJ is very open, direct, and sometimes a little overly emotional, but when it comes to dealing with people, she's my go-to girl for advice.

As for the INFP, I love her to death. I have no problem with her (even when she interrupts my dates with an existential crisis) and love how deeply she accepts and understands others. We have amazing conversations when she, my boyfriend (an INTJ), and I are in a group. Her emotionality comes across more as passion to me, which I don't mind. (It might help that her IQ is, and I'm not exaggerating, 160+.)

The only NTs with whom you might have an EMOTIONAL problem are INTJs. In my personal experience with my boyfriend, he is less tolerant of Feelers than he is Sensors, while I am the other way around.

[Who]

NTs are pretty easy for me to talk to in general, aside from a few certain ones that I feel are kind of pretentious (for example, a certain INTP I know has an annoying "I'm the only person in the world that thinks for himself" sort of complex). Aside from the rare, obnoxious ones that have to remind you every five seconds about how much smarter than you they are, I get along with NTs quite well, actually. In fact, I'm fairly certain pretty much all of my closest male friends are NTs of some sort.

[FiNe SiTe]

I get along with NT's pretty well, it might help tho that
most of the ones i know are my family but thats not the point.
Im yet to experience one outside family. Bring them on!


My mum and my sister are INTP's, we sometimes can have
deep disussions through to the early hours of the night and think up
some great ideas for the future that we
would never do but think them up anyway.
My ESFJ dad thinks were crazy and would never do such a thing.

My mum is very loving and caring and my sister us super fun and intelligent.
(she showed me MBTI)
My INTJ cousin on the other hand, i find we have to many of those awkward silence's
I do admire him, ive admired him since i was 7, seen him
as a big brother, but i never know what to say to him so it can get a bit awkward.

I did once have a ENTP friend, i think, during grade 7, he was awesome.
We would go down to the back of the oval and play made up games,
make up cool characters and play them out.

I think i seem to get along better with NP types because all my best friends have been NP's

ENTP
ENFP
INFP
INTP


GO! NT'S

[thehigher]

I lub dem. I really get along with INTP's well. We just compliment each other in most situations. Never really met an entj for more than 5 minutes. I love INTJ's as well.

But back to the question. I'm just myself. It works.

[OrangeAppled]

INTP
I've had many INTP friends and dated a few. We can get along very well, and have similar perspectives, sense of humor, interests. The conversation can be natural, easy, and enjoyable.

The clash comes when they get argumentative. The lack of compassion or effort to understand other people annoys me sometimes - it makes them seem critical in an elitist way. The more balanced the INTP, the less this is so.

I don't think I am am overly emotional or unreasonable person, so that does not seem to be an issue. I am open to exploring ideas and debating/analyzing different perspectives, but not over stupid things, and some delicacy is needed at times. I think they might mistake an unwillingness to argue something as not having a good argument - big mistake some NTs make with people. I imagine they might find me too sensitive at times, and they probably see me as stubborn as I see them.

They actually vent/whine to me much more than I ever do with them, but I'm used to that with people.

INTJ
I have mixed feelings about INTJs. I've dated quite a few. There's a strange draw at first, but we never really connect. I find them a bit dull and sometimes arrogant, and they seem to think I'm an enigma. I can see in their face that they don't know what to make of me. I don't like being misunderstood, so that's probably part of the turn-off.

ENTP
I don't know too many IRL, save for my biological father. I'm not crazy about my father, because he sucks as a dad. My ESFP sister's best friend is ENTP and she's funny and always nice to me, but I couldn't see myself being close to her or having any deep conversation.

ENTJ
I've only encountered a few; not enough real world data to say.

[statickitten]

One of my best friends is an ENTP. She and I have very similar personalities, but at times she is more practical than I am. I'm more imaginative. But we get along quite well because of similarities, and our few differences make our friendship unique to one-another.

[Mutatio NOmenis]

I could have sworn that I was going to hear someone say: "Hide in a bunker and hope they don't notice you're there."

[Blackbird]

With that said, I can sometimes find NTs a bit soulless but hey, I bet they think I'm overemotional...

My INTP friend and I are both artists, and it's interesting to see how different our ideas are. Once he drew a picture of a flower, and wrote something like, "I picked this for you so you could watch it die," and I went oh my god how morbid, but to him it wasn't upsetting in the least. We've gotten into discussions about it several times. He always says something like, "That's just life. It's not a sad thing, it's just telling you to treasure every moment."

That's one of the things I love about having an INTP friend. I struggle against giving my feelings too much power, and when I'm around my F friends too much, it tends to magnify itself. When I'm around my INTP friend, I feel balanced and at peace, and I think he feels the same way.

[neptunesky]

Blackbird! Are you from the INFP LJ community by any chance? :) I recognise the profile picture.

Anyway. I understand what you mean. My INTP friend is able to accent some truly horrible things and not dwell on them... as I would. He continues on living and even says "there are worse things." I wish I could be strong like that. Some days, I wish I wasn't so damn sensitive! Haha. Like with your INTP friend, mine also helps me feel more balanced and at peace. And in return, I help mr INTP with feelings and what not. It's quite good... difficult at times but good.