The other day I was laughing like a crazy person at my computer screen.

The reason?

People at a PersonalityCafe forum titled “You know you’re an INTP when…” humorously described what it’s like to have this personality type. As a direct consequence of my laughter attack, I have collected the most amusing, true-to-life statements, and paired them with gifs (moving pictures, yay!) below.

You see, I recently discovered I have an INTP personality. What does that mean exactly?

INTP is one of 16 types of personalities that exist in the world, according to psychologist Carl Jung’s and Isabel Briggs Myers’ typological approach. Be aware that it might blow your mind (figuratively one hopes) about how eerily it describes you.

Want to find more about yourself? Understand other people? I highly recommend you take a free assessment at humanmetrics.com and then read more in-depth analysis about your type at 16personalities.com (thank you, Mary, for the resources!)

As for INTPers like me–“The Thinkers”–we represent just 3% of the population, and 2% of women.

The following are 28 amusing things about having an INTP personality. 🙂

1. People call you a walking-talking dictionary, encyclopedia, etc –AirMarionette

2. When you have a brilliant idea, but forgot it.– Sliad

3. As a young girl, you were an old man. -ignite

4. Everything sounds brilliant in your head, but when you try to explain it… it’s a wreckage of words.- AirMarionette

5. Someone describes a typical emotional reaction to you and you respond with, “But that’s irrational.”- roaaoife

6. You take forever to make up your mind, but once you do, you stick with it. (Until it doesn’t work anymore.)- roaaoife

7. Your room/desk/work space looks like a hurricane went through.-roaaoife

8. INTP:”BUT WHAT IF -“

Other person: “Honey, honey… Shh. It’s okay. That’s just how it is.”

INTP: “BUT THERE’S SO MUCH MO -“

Other: “SHH.”-AirMarionette

9. A heavenly job is one where you have hours to imagine, weeks to work, and months to think – freely.AirMarionett

10. You go to Wikipedia to look up one thing and end up spending hours on the site reading.- skycloud86

11. When you have been reading something really interesting, look at a clock and notice that its 6 am. You started reading it at 9pm.-Espiculeas

12. People tell you that you think too much- NeedsNewNameNow

13. When you come out of the lecture room thinking about the fascinating applications and theories that you learned in today’s lecture and realize you’ve left your bag in the lecture room. –Dooraven

14. Your grandmother has sent you a letter in the mail just to say hi because you have not answered your phone in months. Or you often claim, “this damn phone, I need to get a new one,” knowing very well nothing is wrong with your phone.- ignite

15. You spend five minutes deciding if you want to post something, then five minutes deciding how to say it, then another five minutes trying to think of a better way to say it, then finally just delete it entirely.- Dogod

16. If you become obsessed with something, nothing will stop you but…if you get distracted from it, there’s a good chance it’s not happening.-Dogod

17. Your music collection is massive, or at least of every genre out there –mmmusicmmm0

18. You’re attracted to people that aren’t easy to figure out- mmmusicmmm0

20. When someone asks you what color your toothbrush is, and you have no idea. –RedDeath9

21. “Has that sign always been there?”

“Yes.”

“Oh.” – AirMarionette

22. When you start daydreaming during driving and forget that the lights have turned green, wondering why the person behind you is beeping the horn. -Windette

23. When you are compelled by the idea of solitude so that you “can ‘truly’ be free with your thoughts”-artsavedmylife

24. Eating must be done while reading, listening to music or both. Exercise is bearable only in front of a television or with an audiobook. When all else fails (in the shower, for instance) focused thinking keeps you quite occupied.-LQ9

25. You know you’re an INTP when you’ve seriously been considering your plans for the zombie apocalypse –feefafo

26. When you overhear two people speaking about an interesting subject, you daydream about possibilities and contradictions to those possibilities. Once you’re ready to speak, five minutes passed and the subject changed.-KilgoreTrout

27. You’re quiet among new people, but enthusiastic around people you’ve known for a long time. -Kilgore Trout

28. You know you are an INTP when you take a test, it tells you you are an INTP, you begin researching everything about INTPs, then about every other jungian typology, then question your own INTP-ness, then realize it is a completely accurate assessment, but refuse to stop looking up things about typologies and anything remotely related. (this entire time you stopped everything else you had been doing). cjobrien7