INFP in 4 Minutes

When listening to type descriptions, remember that "type portraits" can never accurately describe all people of a given type. Descriptions and portraits like these can only describe the types as they typically are.

[greysrays]

The comment section feels like a home I’ve never had.

[smol_chilli_pepper]

"INFPs are usually prone to distinguish sharply between friends and mere aquaintances" this is so true. I don't give out the title of friend easily

[Anna-lydg]

A huge problem I have as an INFP is a strong desire to have deep emotional connections with people, but I never have the confidence to open up. What's worse is that I expect people to understand me and become incredibly frustrated when they dont-WHEN ITS MY FAULT THEY DONT KNOW ME IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!

[ashleyc]

okay but as an INFP does anyone else cry all the time?? or literally take everything to heart?

[starsadmirer]

*OKAY DOES ANYONE ELSE:*
-hates routine jobs
-loves to travel, wants to explore the whole world
-feels most alive when experiencing something new
-loves all animals very much
-starts something, but find it hard to finish it because your attention switches to something else and your mind races so fast
...

[aviebearr]

infp: damn i really need to socialize
somebody: hi-
infp: im exhausted. i need to retreat in solace and reflect on this

[TheRealOtakuEdits]

You get better at socializing with others after a certain amount of time and become an expert at keeping cordial conversations but you're never able to express yourself as honestly as you'd like to.

[bellahernandez]

Guys please tell me I'm not the only one that cries because you feel like nobody knows who you really are and I always feel like my life is just incomplete like I'm waiting for something but I don't know what

[christinat]

me as an INFP: why don't people understand me.

me: *stays in room*

me: *reads/listens to music/watches youtube for 6 hours*

me: *doesn't talk about deep personal life*

me: wHy DoN'T pEoPle UnDeRsTaNd mE

[keiko]

The whole aspect about INFP's using their childlike persona to shield their inner sensitivity is really true though. My family always treat me and see me as a child, but I honestly never tell them what I truly think because I know they'll never understand and would dismiss everything I think about.

[fivex]

As an INFP I find it funny how some personalities see us as precious. Almost as if they think we are some cute little kid. Where as others see us as mysterious people they want to get to know. On paper it may seem like INFP's are cute, bubbly and innocent people, but we are also known to fiercely fight for our ideals and nothing will stop us from that. Any person who sees this personality as cute are undermining the complexity of our nature. If we do come off as precious, it's probably because we don't like you and we are giving nothing of our real selves to you. We will never be mean, try to make you feel uncomfortable or upset the balance, but the way a INFP will let know they like you, is by being themselves.

[anaclet]

*being within a large group of people*
"I don' feel these people know the real me"
Wow, that is SO relatable

[aengaeng]

mood: When you notice something beautiful in the world and you want to tell everyone about it, but you don’t because you know they won’t see it the same way you do.

[durk]

*me as an infp*
won't cry at sad af funeral
will tear up about some random cute snake

[Beautifulcoil]

Best advice for INFPs: meditate. The best decision I ever did in my life, helped me solve a lot of my problems.

[jaydee]

Am I the only Infp who cringe everytime I see my own photos ?

[arkman]

One of the things I really like a out being INFP is the hability to live in inner world's inside of me, people often think I'm clumsy or easily distracted but I just enjoy living inside of me.
1.5 k likes ? What the heck, thanks guys, keep loving that powerful inner world of ourselves, but try to bring those ideals and ideas to this world, it helped me a lot to grow up to be a more mature infp

[guineapig]

Sometimes I’ll have a conversation with myself in my head, start making faces that go along with the conversation, therefore making myself look like a strange idiot in public. Gotta love being INFP.

[eavesDropSound]

INFP, here. Also a guy. Not ashamed of it. There's power in demonstrating love, in a world that badly needs it. This is why it bleeds through my music, art, and writing.

[AlisSpark]

I've always loved INFP's. You are just the cutest, quirkiest people ever, so interesting but hard to get to know. The poetic vivid imagery of many INFP's writing can not be matched in my opinion and you are so highly fun to be around.
Almost all girls I ever fell in love with turned out to be INFP's - although due to my incredible shyness I was incapable of working out on these crushes - however for me INFP females remain the most attractive and interesting girls out of all cognitive types. They portrait the pure femininity compared with a richness of deep thinking and melancholic longing that I so absolutely adore. I seem subconsciously drawn to INFP girls as I only after I have already developed the crushes recognized them to also have an INFP cognitive type.

The guys portrait the soft, kind, goodhearted friend every other guy could wish for and not the harsh partygoing shallow pick-up snobs that so tick me off. Male infp's are just the best, the poets of ancient and modern times and the soft idealistic dreamers our cruel world so badly needs today. The examples that not all guys have to be strong muscle and swordfighters, but the individualists with a sense of the finer things in life.

I love you INFP's! Stay who you are and continue to enrich this world in a way that only you can! You are irreplacable and I want you to just stay who you are forever!
Especially because the melancholic dreamy idealistic INFP exists I know there is hope for humanity. So many of you (also people INFP's I know) have proven it more than once. Continue to bless the world with your love, kindness and richness of the mind! Continue to bless us all by merely being here.

~An INFJ