Other people mistranslating INTJ thoughts as “we are better and smarter”

 So just wanna discuss this a moment. After debating a couple people around this recently it occurs to me that we don’t always explain what we mean with the “wish I was dumber” or “wish everyone else thought like us” posts. I can’t say I want to be dumber, or that I think I am smarter than most, although sometimes it feels that way.

What I think we mean to say, especially after reading another post about nihilism and remembering how I felt before I had more happiness in my life, is that we wish our mind wouldn’t think to the level that makes things seem depressing and pointless and/or overwhelming at times.

And to the second point about being smarter it often just feels like we think more deeply and have a “meta” perspective that most people that I talk to can’t seem to grasp as hard as I try to explain it. We can step back from our own mind (at least I think this is an INTJ thing) and view our own thoughts and have thoughts about those. Other people can’t seem to think this way.

While I also pride myself with being able to translate different people saying the same thing, I think we are often bad at explaining what we actually mean to people including ourselves.

Thoughts? - darkshadow2240

It's implied ego, it's so deep-rooted in the mentality of some, that people don't even realize. It's ironic because this exact mindset and way of looking at things that account for the INTJs social, romantic, and emotional struggles. Any rationalization or coping (which INTJs are VERY good at) is fuel towards the ignorance of ones own weakness' and discouragement towards positive change.

It's one thing to say "others think differently", and an entirely different story to say "others can't think as intricately as me", implying the deficit lies in others. It's a fine line, but the difference between a balanced attitude and a self-defeating, illusory, superiority complex.

INTJs are not a social outcast because everyone else is stupid, it's because they lack social skills that they continue to deny developing. MBTI is straight harmful when it promotes this false comfort.