NORA AND IRIS. The Girls I've Been By Tess Sharpe

I think I’ve answered variations on this question before. But it’s been a while, so let’s see if I have a different perspective than before.

First, I will say that there are people who do (mostly) understand INFPs. These are usually those who have an INFP in the family, as a close friend, or are in a relationship with an INFP.

As for the rest of the world… There’s quite a bunch of Extroverts and Sensors out there. That’s a good reason people might not understand INFPs.

Want more reasons? 😅 Hmm, let me think… 

INFPs are not a very common type

INFPs are quiet and won’t share themselves with just anyone

INFPs enjoy discussing the unusual and lesser-chosen topics

INFPs spend a lot of time in their heads

INFPs want to explore all the what-ifs before moving on

INFPs may think and speak with metaphors and symbols

INFPs may be distracted by the beauty of trees blowing in the wind

INFPs take part in conversations to listen more than to speak

INFPs will feel emotional pain at another’s distress

INFPs can cry about something other people may not understand

INFPs dislike following the crowd without a good reason

INFPs may talk to animals and inanimate objects

INFPs want to understand the reasons behind someone’s actions

I think the most important reason is the first on my list. INFPs are not a common type. If something is less common, then it is less understood. Bottom line, really. Not sure if there is anything mysterious about it. 💗

Thanks for the question. 😊

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Part 2 of my Percy Jackson Tattoo Series: Annabeth Chase!  Annabeth’s sleeve is an owl holding a Trident, the coin from the Mark of Athena, The New York City skyline, her family’s names, her underwater kiss with Percy, and Thalia’s pine tree with her and Luke’s names under its roots. She also has a helmet, which to me represents her being a warrior, with seaweed brain above it. The “AO” symbol is my interpretation of her being the architect of Olympus, and the night sky on her forearm is meant to represent when she and Percy were forced to replace Atlas and hold up the sky. She has “Hubris” in Greek on her forearm, and an illustration from Paradise Lost on her thigh of Lucifer falling from heaven, a classic example of hubris. This is meant to remind her of her fatal flaw. On her other thigh she has her lifeline thread, she has a small wave on her thumb, and she has a P on her shoulder for Percy.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

Susane Colasanti

Adulting to me involves the stuffy things I have to do to survive. Usually, somehow forcing myself to be a good little human by skirting around the outer edges of society.

This world forces people to suffer hours every day just so they can eat and live under a warm roof. What kind of world is this? Why isn’t food and safety a right? Why are people struggling with more than one job just to feed their children? This is a broken world.

So I have to pretend to be like the rest of the poor souls and adult my way through life. Push myself in ways I haven’t before. Pay a bill for something that makes no sense to me. Don’t even get me started on taxes. Why am I working just so some invisible entity can steal it all away?

Is that being an adult? Or a blind pushover?

“Adulting” only reminds me of what I dislike about this planet. There is so much more to living than being forced to sit in front of blinding screens and working our fingers raw for a mere nickel that will only be stolen away in the end.

I want people to see how beautiful life can be. That the pressures we face daily aren’t what being alive is about. Life is about expanding our minds and entwining our hearts with those we love. Everything else is an unnecessary burden to bury in an empty field, then covered over in blue wildflowers.

Forget this adulting business. It isn’t being an adult to take on these responsibilities. It just means a person is old enough to officially take on roles we’ve been trained for since we first stepped foot into school as children. All those long years of brainwashing just for these happy moments of being an adult. I’m not particularly proud of what humanity is doing to itself. *sighs and wanders off*

We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t embarrassed by our emotions, or her own, who recognizes that life is short and that all we have to offer, in the end, is love.

Cheryl Strayed

the rwrb fandom is just as pushy as theatre kids… “I LOVE HIM ???? ON PURPOSE!!” “READ RWRB!!” *Offers to lend you the book* “Omg its so good i-” “HISTORY, HUH????”

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Actually, I thought that INFPs were pretty morally obvious. Most of the life choices an INFP makes are based on one internal personal guideline or another.

Perhaps there might be some confusion as to what exactly are these mysterious INFP morals. Why aren’t they perfectly clear to others? And how does an INFP make decisions based on them?

From personal experience, my internal guidelines are the feels that let me know when something is good or not so good. They probably aren’t based on anything logical other than “be nice to each other and if you’re not nice to someone I care about, I will kick you in your butt!”

So maybe that is morally ambiguous after all…? I’m a nice person and dislike hurting people, but I will harm someone if they hurt a loved one. The morals aren’t ambiguous to me, but maybe it’s unclear to others? Haha! It’s good to keep them guessing. 😅

I also read that abstract thinking is part of being an Intuitive type.

I find it difficult to be objective and answer this question outside of myself. I’m too immersed in it and I’m not certain in this instance what it’s like not to have internal guidelines that help in life. I would be so very lost! 😕

These internal morals aren’t ambiguous to me, but they probably are to non-INFPs? That’s as close to an answer as I have. 💗

Thanks for the question! 😊

Related questions- How would an INFP discover their ideals? What’s an INFP who hasn’t discovered his values like? As an INFP, what are some of your main values and beliefs and what are the reasons behind them?