Hard to get to know

[GYX_Kid]

People will witness things that you "do."
After a few of these, they'll start to make mental connections between these apparent manifestations of yourself. In these terms, "not doing something" usually also counts as "doing something," at least if you're visible enough in the lines of active observation.

With Si, someone might place you into ridiculous compartments that they've witnessed before, and believe that you also look like these.

With Ni, someone might try to connect an irrelevant, off-topic essence with something they think they see in you.


Well, why is this a possible issue?
INTPs often have interesting means of habitual "doing."

Perhaps you get caught up in one environment, and the ways in which you'd act in relation to those objects becomes second nature until you realize it and put in the effort to act differently.

Maybe you even get used to imagining what one person might "think" you are, and then subconsciously fall into a trap of acting that same way around that one person; and play a different character around a different person etc. Forgot the name of this phenomenon. Then you could suddenly bring out a new side of yourself and be surprising.

Maybe you don't care enough about what people think like that, but not a lot spurs you to "act" very often.


If you want to show someone something about yourself, a really evolved manifestation might include knowing a vast internal library of physical contexts; different sides of yourself in detail and how they can be presented via multiple means of expression; and different personalities which may interpret these differently.

I'm done with this post, I think....sure

 

[Vrecknidj]

People will witness things that you "do."
After a few of these, they'll start to make mental connections between these apparent manifestations of yourself. In these terms, "not doing something" usually also counts as "doing something," at least if you're visible enough in the lines of active observation.

People will also project onto you, and the things that you do, and the things that they think that you do, and the things that they think that you meant to do, all kinds of their own beliefs and values and meanings.

People will decide, when you pick one food over another, that it means something.

People will choose, based on limited information about you, that you are one kind of person rather than another, even though they have almost no other reliable information upon which to make this assessment.

And, many of them do this for very good reasons. And some of them do this for very bad reasons.

It's part of the kinds of creature that we are.

Dave

 

[EmergingAlbert]

Maybe you even get used to imagining what one person might "think" you are, and then subconsciously fall into a trap of acting that same way around that one person; and play a different character around a different person etc. Forgot the name of this phenomenon. Then you could suddenly bring out a new side of yourself and be surprising.

I can relate to that. I do this with my family and even some friends whom I've known for a long time. People perceive me to be a certain way. Years later, I change. But I don't want them to know that I've changed, so I might keep acting the way I used to around them, but be my new self around strangers.