If you don't know someone's type, how can you tell if they're in a loop or in a grip?

and of course I 'seem like a sensor,' it's on my flair

Not on iOS Alien Blue—which is all I use. But I'm glad I was right. I'm thinking ISFP or ISFJ.

This is how women are socialized from birth!

I've come to find that sensors have a propensity to blame the external world for their issues—just what I've seen. I don't subscribe to this crap. Raise your kid as an existentialist and the problem vanishes. You don't know the details of the near-rape situation, so let's end it at that.

How did you turn out to be so bright in a family of brainless people?

I'm no genius. If I've learned anything from being raised by SJs, it's how to work hard; and that's what I've done. I also have a constant thirst for knowledge and to better myself. Granted, it took me longer than I would have liked to discover that life could be more than mediocrity and mindless religion. How would you feel if your dad caught you reading about evolution and your parents take away your computer and pray over you? I mean, how else is a sheltered, home schooled 13 year old with limited internet access and no friends supposed to learn anything outside of what he's provided? Oh, I knew people on my soccer teams… but I was too weird to be their friend.

So it wasn't that I was this prodigy child… not at all. My mom is close to being retarded, and if you'd like some examples, I have plenty. My dad has a physics degree, graduated top of his class, and is a computer scientist for a major software development company. Where he fucked up is he stopped wanting to learn after college. College told him to learn, so he learned. Once he graduated and settled into his job that he has kept for 35+ years, his mind has been slowly deteriorating. He can barely work his iPhone. He is trying to help a friend with a website and I have to help him with rudimentary HTML. I don't even use HTML, and he writes software for a living, dammit! How would you feel about sensors if you grew up being forced to watch tv with the family—all those nights wasted on watching American Idol, Lost, and fucking Survivor because my parents literally made us kids sit down and have "family" time by watching mindless television when all I wanted to do was read my books and write my music in me room. Now days my parents start watching tv at 4:00 and watch till 9:30—every night. They just sit there… it's like they're dead.

So to answer your question, I have the genes to be a smart person, but if I act too—dare I say it—sensor about my intelligence, it could very well deteriorate like theirs seems to have done.

getting through your narcissism

Oh, you caught onto that? The real issue being that I have no fucks for unsolicited advice. It's like I'm talking to my mom: "Do this because I think it's right." You're not the first sensor who's gone off on me about this; and as to continue with the theme, which is the origin of my frustration with sensors like you, it's your lack of open-mindedness that is causing this issue. I think if you really tried—and I believe in you—that you could see where I'm coming from, see past your own bias, see my frustrations, see that I'm not harming anyone, and that I'm actually a really nice person to my family who just needs an outlet once in a while, you'll probably see that this confrontation is unwarranted and a waste of both of our time.

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