#thinking type

Their loud, sickly sweet, high pitched voices

the tepid, banal subject matter

and the fact that the conversation never seems to fuckin’ END

INFPs are known to be fluffy and very cinnamon roll types. But what many don’t know is that we can be analytical as all get out. Some tread that very fine line that can almost make us come across a T rather than an F type. We are contradictions of course but to say we are guided solely on emotions, is not true, not for many. 

A couple asks prior was questioning that and honestly, I can’t say as it didn’t make me think and totally relate. I do analyze everything. Sometimes is seeps into my emotions and decisions which I know is not a good thing because it can cause me to seem kind of cool towards a subject, or make me take my heart out of a matter. BUT this happens mostly due to stress or just shock of a situatiuon that has been presented to me. Many of times it may make me look like I just don’t care. My biggest thing that gets me is that I will sit there, feel emotions about something, basically want to cry yet know what the logical answer is and say that, then after a few hours or even a few days go by, think about it and have all of the emotions that I really felt come out and hit me HARD. Especially if the issue put on the spot and I am not one to really cry in front of people so I have no choice but to act like the stable one, no matter how much it hurt me. It takes me that long sometimes and I guess it is more of a defense mechanism than anything. I have always been this way. Sure it makes for a good business mind, but man, does it cause issues and can actually get you pretty stuck. Plus you think to yourself “where was that comeback then?”  Just a personal observation. INFPs feel like they have to be strong and hold such high morals and values, that sometimes it can be a great thing but other times it can work against us. So the question remains, Processing, Emotional Delay or a little bit of both?

I really can’t visualize things. Like if someone is explaining something, and it’s an object, or what have you, that I have physically seen and touched, I still can’t properly visualize

Like, I can see parts of a whole, but never the whole thing. I used to think it was just human faces, but I’ve come realize that I just can’t

I think in words, not pictures

Cory thinks in pictures and not words

When a feeling type wants you to share your feelings

You know what to do.

You will play devil's advocate simply because you'd like to get other people thinking rationally about their beliefs. 

You want to move to the planet Vulcan because you want to surround yourself with people who aren't infuriatingly illogical all the time.

You would be rich if you had a dime for every time you lamented, "But that doesn't make sense!"

You have emotions, but expressing them is an awkward affair at best, and some times starts fights.

You're rarely angry, but your friend always asks if you are angry, which makes you angry.

You don't know how to respond to spontaneous displays of affection.

You find yourself numerically ranking everything.

You have a plan for everything.

People keep saying that you don't care when you actually do - just because you don't show them in the way they expect you to

It's difficult for you to accept that there may be some things for which there is no good logical explanation.

The only way you know which emotion you're feeling is to memorize the physical reaction each one invokes (eg anxiety = twisting stomach) and then apply that information to various situations. When it fails, you're completely lost.

You feel the need to respond to every argument, so that a rational conclusion may be reached.

You get put in a room and asked to think of a way to stop the entire world from collapsing in a week, and you do -- coolly, calmly, and collectedly. You get put them in a room with a crying 10-year-old child, and you're lost.

You get mistaken for a feeler because you've already worked out that it's easier, and therefore more logical for yourself, to be diplomatic and not get yelled at by unstably emotional people.

You don't sugercoat the truth for others. You tell them the way it is.