I had a tiny bitty business consisting of writing and selling short stories to my neighbors at 8 years old. I learned how to properly tie my shoes at 14 💀
INTJ here, I guess I was about 5 or 6 when I learned to tie my shoes, and lace my ice skates! But get this, my ESFP daughter learned to tie her own shoes at around age 3!
I don't think I had heard the word until a friend of mine said it a couple years ago. Knowing that _auto_ means "self," and _didact_ means "to teach," I figured out that it meant someone who was self taught. So I guess you could say I taught myself the meaning of autodidact. #INTJ
Typical INTJ: No situation is too complex for me. Everything follows logic, so I can calculate the outcome in any given scenario. (10 minutes later) Why on earth would Timmy do something that stupid and illogical! The world makes no sense!
@@burnyizland I refused to have kids. They were always a nuisance. IDC if I was one myself because I didn't witness myself like I did screaming, annoying, compact sized demons in skin suits! I have sensory intolerance and am VERY unpleasant for any youths!
INTJ here. My single parent would pay me to clean and I would save all the money. When my parent ran out of money to pay bills or buy food, I would lend them some of my money. It truly is an investment.
Yup, I didn't save it all but I was the only one of my sibs who helped out and paid rent once I got a part-time job. Mom (divorced when I was 9) said I was the only one she felt was responsible enough (and it freed me to buy my own clothes---anything I liked not just what she could afford cus she was buying for three. The one time I borrowed from her, for something special and unexpected, she said she felt confident lending to me because she knew she would actually get it back again as opposed to my sister who she would simply accept it was a gift cus despite promises to pay Mom back, sister never would. (Yet somehow I'm the one who ended up on her 'not my real kid' list. I was adopted shortly before she got pregnant with the unreliable one, who ended up her fave child out of three. Go figure. Good thing growing up I was independent and self-reliant. )
As an INTJ kid, I didn’t plan my own startup company or disassemble a computer. I went to the library, gathered sources, and voluntarily wrote two separate research papers on toucans and anacondas for the purpose of convincing my mother to let me have them as pets.
My high school boyfriend and I used to read Soldier of Fortune magazine to learn how to assemble lazers and other stuff. Some of it was out of our price range sadly, but shopping at an Army/Navy store is still my fave shopping place! (especially as Radio Shack is no more).
That’s better than my goals In early to late elementary I focused on what other kids would likely want, namely a dragon tamer (I had an obsession with them since 5 years of age, it seemed) but at the same time I’d be planning on myself to become a successful family man to carry the family name because I figured it was far to likely my brothers wouldn’t find love like that. Eventually, I thought around my early teens that an office job would be perfect for some logical thinking but to a point I could do it and not feel overwhelmed. Now, I want to be a physicist. Sorry
Oh my gosh! The disassembling of the laptop is so real! As an INTJ adult, this video made me realize why my parents always seemed on the verge of insanity while I was growing up. 😂
My parents are both ISXPs and they never seemed to know what was going on in my head. I thought it was perfectly obvious to everyone that we were all born to die at age 4 and was genuinely concerned that my classmates didn't know the word 'Hemophobia' at age 6. That was until my parents had to sit me down after a parent teacher meeting and explain to me that the general population was stupid (they didn't say that. They told me to stop expecting everyone's brain to work like mine which I took in a 'they are all stupid' way)
Is there a reason for shoe laces or Velcro? Skechers has black lace less shoes at dsw. My go to is no more so had to change to new style four years ago…… really unhappy about that………..realllllly
Dude, seriously! They waste time exchanging gifts and act like they like it and calculate the price value of what they send and receive. Just go out with who you like only and have a good time or stay home. Why invite people you hate? I would never understand how they think 😑
That self-teaching as an INTJ is waaaay too relatable. When I was in grade school, I used to do an advanced reading of our textbooks for the year (It's normally only accessible during the school year but I was pretty friendly with my teachers so they let me borrow ahead of time), and also had my parents buy me some other reference materials when we buy school stuff before the year starts. I'd end up being bored when the school year starts and mostly take naps during class since I already learned most of what was needed that year. I wish I could tell young me to literally go outside and touch grass.
Yeah, I sailed through those SRA reading books. All the librarians knew me and I got to sometimes eat in the teachers lounge! I got to do different assignments than the others so I could be challenged and sometimes I helped the teacher grade papers instead. I did get outside tho. I liked riding my bike and there was a wonderful tree in front of my elementary school just made to sit in and read. (Lol, one time on a field trip to the LA Natural History Museum in the Egypt section, I knew more than the guide so I actually led the tour!)
School books were a joke. My real (self-)education happened outside school. In third grade I asked my teacher why don't we learn neat stuff like electromagnetism. I showed to her from a kids' science book to make sure she knew I meant. My mind had been recently blown light, relativism, and electromagnetism.
I never had a reading list given to me but because I read so much it was rare when they put up a book I hadn't read previously. Exceptions for Shakespeare because I hate it.
I'm an INFJ but I do a lot of self study. From self-studying geography during 10th grade cuz the subject had a schedule clash with business studies and I wanted to take both subjects (got an A in both btw), to self-studying physics and chemistry in 11th grade and finishing the entire iGCSE syllabus on my own by January, to self-studying 12th grade maths (i.e. AS level maths) in 11th grade and finishing my AS exams in Jan exam session, to self-studying further mathematics over the summer break after 12th grade to prepare for uni, and likewise over summer before my third semester back in undergrad, to self-studying Python over 6 weeks over a winter break during lockdown, to self-studying Japanese for the past couple of years to the point where I can now hold conversations in it (I also became fluent in Arabic some years back, although I had a boost during my last 3 years of school by switching to Arabic as a first language for Arabic subject)... to self-studying robotics for my master's degree project cuz I thought it would make for a cool project... And now I'm starting to learn Russian on my own (as my 5th language).
All jokes aside, INTJs as kids are often very different from how they are as adults. The strong NI and TE are definitely identifiable which will lead to the kind of precociousness and creativity we see in this video. But their FI and SE will also likely be running wild at this point in their life. So half the time they wont seem like an INTJ at all. It can take a while before they realize these functions are not their strong point and start to minimize them. For us INTJs, FI and SE are often associated with our "vices" and unrestrained passions/desires. At least that is how we view them. So as a kid, we don't control our vices or passions very well. A child INTJ will sometimes exhibit the same impulsiveness and emotional volatility as an ESFP.
oh ma gosh this makes more sense... lookin into my childhood, i def thought i was either an ENFP or ESFP or smth and after this video... i was gon 2nd guess my mbti guess i am intj ....
I was misdiagnosed with ADD when I was a kid. Indoors I was everywhere all at once outside I was face down in the grass looking for four-leaf clovers for the entire recess.
Yup, and I shared a room with my first and worst bully, my co-first sister, whom I'm pretty sure is an ExTJ due to the amount of bossiness. But she was also easy to outwit, and I have to say that learning to duke it out with her made for great self-defense training. (She's a good foot taller than me too, and I still won all but one fight when she managed to clock me on the chin first. Usually, I could drop her before she got her fist all the way around to me.)
I was an INTJ child and I said things like "just because you've done it that way for 20 yrs doesn't mean you were doing it right" and "why can't you admit when you're wrong" and "prove to me that you're right"
Get in trouble for doing in advance your homework at class or answer all your lessons or the activities book because you already finish all your assignment and you are so bored to waiting your classmates to finish their owns.
INTJ here: when I was like 3, I was at a birthday party, and they had hired a clown or something. I left my peers with crayons and a coloring book, sat with the adults in the kitchen, and quietly started coloring. When asked if I wanted to go have fun with anyone else, I promptly responded "nope" and continued doing my thing
Lucky you. My parents forced me to join the party to "have fun" and I had to pretend I was having fun or else people will say, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so weird?"
@@burnyizland I get extreme surges of joy when Frank’s skits have the INTJ (my hubby) and INFJ (me) teaming up or commiserating or just sitting next to each other. Having an INTJ by your side is optimal - I * would * highly recommend it, but I would hate for them to be bothered.😏
I literally did disassemble (and reassemble with new parts) my mom's laptop when I was a kid. And i used the "investing" argument a lot when trying to get my parents to buy me something. I feel seen and it is uncomfortable lol.
I had my whole family monitoring me whenever I held something after I disassembled: remote controls, phones, pens, machines. Basically anything I had in my hands and was bored, I would either assume it into something else or disassemble it. I made a lot of cool gadgets too. 😅
@@FrankJames I have been told it is fairly on point. Although you forgot the part where he attempted to clean up spilled alcohol with a match, nearly setting the house on fire. But in his words "That was efficient".
That's if we actually get invited. I only got invited to one high school birthday party. (She was told to invite everyone in her class so no one was left out.) She was nice enough even if we weren't friends so I went out of curiosity (research lol). I didn't know her well at all so I just bought the two lp's that were at 1 and 2 on the hit list in the Licorice Pizza store (yeah, the one in The Valley that they made some movie about recently lol). I was apparently her fave gift giver that day! (Research...do the research, eh)
It's like looking back at myself. Reading in school (and now), avoiding other kids, going to the library to avoid gatherings, learning obscure words....😂 I even loved history and the way societies functioned.
INTJ here! My mom always reminds me of the time she got me a bubble blowing baby doll and I ripped it's head off to find out how the bubbles were made. She didn't complain when I grew up and started disassembling and repairing her discman, PC or her phone... Must admit I've repeatedly lied to people so as to avoid any kind of gathering way too often to stay at home reading or doing any kind of interesting proyect.
I'm an INTJ, but as a kid, I was more like an ISTP. Keeping things quiet, having fun exploring different games, toys, and hobbies and always making things. My true personality didn't really take shape until college or so
Also an INTJ here. Everyone else say that I'm an INTJ, but I still doubt it. No one knows that I wan an extrovert, and maybe I still am. Maybe I'm an INTJ, not because this type describes me, but because it describes me better than any other types. Or maybe I still don't quite understand my type.
At 12, I found at home a book that traced greek mythology through various geological and time periods in it's development. With citations and all. I thought it was the best read ever.
Greek mythology was one of my favourite reading subjects at approximately that same age, and even younger. Wow. This must be another INTJ thing, but highly specific. 😅
When my INTJ daughter was a child, she use to give us money, so she didn't have to do her chores, and asked for a Barbie ATM for a Christmas. if I ever needed money, I'd ask her cause she always had some. Glad she didn't quite grasp interest rates at that point.🤣
Oh I did start my interest rate system when I was 9 I believe. I thought of it and did it from then on. I started by saving pennies then made 10k by the time I finished highschool lol
As an INTJ, I read the World Book Encyclopedia for fun at age 7. I also used to take out this amazing dinosaur book from the library often, because it had detailed skeleton diagrams, and I traced over them to recreate what they probably looked like.
Knew four words at 8 months (by the parental count, which is likely low-balling). One time my Mom caught me disassembling something out of curiosity and when she saw the parts I was holding behind my back, I got a smackeroo. But, at age 8 or so, I pulled an old Westinghouse fan from the attic and worked on it till I got it running again. It was something my grandparents owned that you would see in a 1940s detective movie, grimy as heck. I was rewarded with air in an otherwise no A/C, very hot summer. This is just normal life to an INTJ. Reading about embalming? Yeah I'd totally do that since I dip into forensics and true crime on my break time.
@@elibennett6168 using an accurate description is not being a drama queen. Striking someone with physical force with the express intent of causing pain in the recipient is basically the dictionary definition of a beating.
@@TalkingWeirdStuff24 Technically speaking educating and abusing are different. I was hit as a kid too but not for abuse it's if I misbehaved and started a fight.
The autodidact is suuuch a mood XD As an INTJ, I take any excuse I can to dig deeper into my hyperfixations and really only retain information if I'm truly *interested* in it. This is why History was my favorite and best subject in high school lol
I have an idea as to how you could best accomplish that goal. First, find an extra bright INTJ kid somewhere. Convince them to invent a time machine. Then, travel into the future using the time machine and "meet" your very own INTJ kid, whom you are about to have in the present day time in a few years. Ask the kid who his daddy is and get as much info as you can on him. Then, go back into your own time and find the man that the kid told you about, marry him, have the kid, and voila! 👌
My dad tried to get me to bed on time telling me the monster underneath it will crawl out and eat me when he wakes up at midnightand and sees I wasn't in bed. I, A: argued that it's easier for him to eat me while I'm on the bed, why'd he wait until I'm out of the room? B: waited until midnight, dragged my dad by the hand and showed him that monsters aren't real and he shouldn't fear them 😂
the laptop joke hit home. I used to destroy ANY electronics in the house. got electrocuted multiple times. my parents got tired of it and got me in contact with a family friend who had a car repair garage and started spending all my time there messing with cars and stopped the home wrecking. my parents were relieved.
As a former INTJ child, ALL of these are true LOL, but nothing hit harder than the shoes on the wrong feet part 🤣😂🤣 I just couldn't be bothered to care as long as they stayed on.
Nailed the INTJ kid. Even the glasses. I remember going to the optometrist when I was young, walking straight to that exact style pair, taking them off and saying, "These." Now let's go.
As a child, I spent so much time in the library I was quickly bored with the kids section. I instead went to the science section, history, art and so on. I did have to avoid one librarian who did not think a kid absorbing the minutiae of biology textbooks and political biographies was appropriate. Ah, good times.
See, a librarian caring about what I was reading in the high school section could have saved me years of trauma. I had read everything of worth in the elementary section of the school library by 3rd grade, so I was allowed to check out books from the high school section. I got onto a mysteries kick in 4th grade, and after a dozen good ones, I checked out a Stephen King novel. I do not recall the name of it now, but a very brutal scene was written to be occuring during a thunderstorm, and I just so happened to be reading that scene with a flashlight under my covers during a thunderstorm. After a very bright flash, a clap of thunder so violent that the house shook, and the power going out in the house, I was terrified! I had nightmares for WEEKS! And to this day, I canNOT read suspense without a near anxiety attack. 😂 It's stupid, I know, but no amount of logic seems to work to make it better. Which is hilarious, because scary movies are so predictable and obvious that they don't phase me at all. I can predict exactly when the bad guys are going to jump out based on the music and the scene. But reading the same type of thing? Nope, can't do it. 😂
Plot twist: His mother is an ENFJ and thought it would be a wonderful idea if her INTJ son came with her to deliver a beautiful gift for her dear friend, Suzie’s mother. Oh look, Suzie is here, too! Well, since we are here, might as well stick around and let the kids play.
I would like you to make a video focusing on the madness and sarcastic behavior of ENTPs. To me, they are the closest type to break the fourth wall and have a debate with the creator of the universe, pointing out his flaws.
HARHARHAR, one of my favorite books as a kid was one that was like a top 100 longest words in the English language. I was also the only kid in the family (7 total kids, I was the youngest) to read our entire "fancy books" collection - ugh, except for the poetry one; I hated and still hate poetry - so syrupy, like feelz, eeewwww! I read the entire encyclopedia collection as well. And after I learned how to ride a bike I was headed off to the library on Saturdays. Always the first one to finish a test. Yet I was always a rebel, not a nerd. It's fun and weird being INTJ.
Hooray, I was sitting here avoiding being creative and now I have a payoff for my procrastination! I have learned nothing from this and I will repeat this action.
I didn't find most of these examples relevant to myself, but I did spend my entire childhood deeply questioning why I couldn't just move out and get my own place already, and then they could stop asking me to take care of other children and explain things to them. Admittedly I am Gen X, our parents did lots of stuff that would get you arrested these days, but still it was a bit unusual for me at 9 to have my 4 year old sister dumped on me while my parents went on vacation for two weeks. I spent the entire time wishing they would just keep sending me money and not come back, would still be worth being stuck with a 4 yr old (and I never could stand children, even when I was one). Nothing bad happened the entire time, so then I got constantly stuck caring for an infant right after that. At least being a INTJ gave me a boost in learning how to do everything just being shown one time.
Most intjs I met when I was in school actually had a soft, insecure voice. It was funny how they were so matter of fact and at the same time vulnerable. And I (infp) was the sensible one T.T Sure.
INTJ here. Well, yes, we are like that. I read books during class early on because Morgan Freeman taught me to read when I watched The Electric Company before I started kindergarten and my mom's best friend had me up and running as a fluent reader by 1st grade. In high school I was ignoring my American history teacher as he was going on about WWII because I was reading my own copy of The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. Long story short, after asking me to summarize it for the class, he let me continue reading during class because I was learning far more than the typical public school education could give me. Also, the last history paper I turned he gave a 95% instead of 100% because of alleged grammatical mistakes. My English teacher was the head of the English department, so the next day I took in my history paper rough draft and asked her if it was grammatically correct as written. She said yes, it was. The next day I told him he should change my grade to 100% because the head of the English department thought he was wrong. He didn't change my grade. Yes, I did go on to homeschool 3 kids K-12. Yes, they did start college at ages 17, 15, and 17.
This is so relatable. I remember constantly putting the wrong shoe on the wrong foot as a child and walking around without even realising it before someone points it out. And I also remember being so proud of myself the first time I tied my shoes myself.😂😂
As a kid, I fell from a rocking horse in kindergarten so hard that I hit my head and the rocking horse fell onto me. Had a wound on the back of my head that needed 7 stitches. Mom came rushing, brought me to the doctor and while I was sitting on her lap telling her how this accident happened the doctor closed the wound without even the need to give me painkillers or anything. As I finished talking I asked her how on earth could the doctor take so long to be ready for the stitches and she said "He's already done"😂 Well, I guess I always was an INTJ
INTJ husband disassembled and assembled their first family computer when he was a child 😂 my MIL almost had a heart attack. And yes, he did teach himself a lot of things. Taught himself how to draw, how to program, HTML, that’s how he realized he wanted to go into IT.
AWWW i guess we all had the same childhood. Im impressed how u come up with these because i def remember trying to impress people with my ability to count to 100 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Ironically, as an INTJ child, I was more the “I’m just gonna sit by myself and read/draw/write and talk to nobody” kid but to be fair, I did also ask A LOT of questions like this INTJ child here. Not the exact same one’s mind you but a lot nonetheless. 😂
"I was too busy reading about how dead bodies are embalmed" omg this made me laugh lol 😅 I'm not even an INTJ, but I can relate to reading and focusing on weirdly specific subjects lol
Question of the Day: Why ARE babies so stupid? 👶
😂
Who knows 😂
They are not mature and need a little more practice.
Their brains are new, therefore their brain is squeaky clean!
Because they lack the knowledge to know they’re stupid.
INTJ kid: please mommy invest in my start-up
The same INTJ kid: tying a shoe is a craft too hard to comprehend
I had a tiny bitty business consisting of writing and selling short stories to my neighbors at 8 years old. I learned how to properly tie my shoes at 14 💀
I feel this on a personal level.
@@StandardGretchen relatable, i opened illegal soda drink stand near school at 10yo. My mom had to buy me Velcro shoes till i was 12yo
INTJ here, I guess I was about 5 or 6 when I learned to tie my shoes, and lace my ice skates! But get this, my ESFP daughter learned to tie her own shoes at around age 3!
We're good with our minds, not with our hands.
Autodidact is a word that sums up INTJ perfectly, so it makes perfect sense that they'd hone in on it in childhood.
I'm an INTJ and I learned this word when I was 9
I don't think I had heard the word until a friend of mine said it a couple years ago. Knowing that _auto_ means "self," and _didact_ means "to teach," I figured out that it meant someone who was self taught. So I guess you could say I taught myself the meaning of autodidact. #INTJ
One of my INTJ husband’s favorite words! 🤣
I've learned so many things like this ❤
@rebekahkrahn9896 I don't know why I read this as though you have several INTJ husbands 😂
Typical INTJ:
No situation is too complex for me. Everything follows logic, so I can calculate the outcome in any given scenario.
(10 minutes later)
Why on earth would Timmy do something that stupid and illogical! The world makes no sense!
Having a kid surprised me. It's not just that they do dumb things, it's that you can't predict where the stupid will fall.
@@burnyizland I refused to have kids. They were always a nuisance. IDC if I was one myself because I didn't witness myself like I did screaming, annoying, compact sized demons in skin suits! I have sensory intolerance and am VERY unpleasant for any youths!
Well, I sure have been called out! 😅
Typical INTJ would also say:
"Monsters live inside your head."
I was expecting that, not gonna lie.
For free ☝🏻
or "The Monsters are usually the people who are closest to you" (as a kid who watched true crime docs, NCIS, ect. with her parents haha)
Everything lives inside the head
But the question is does it live in this 3 dimensional world too
Or
"When you grow up enough, you would realize people are the real monsters"
INTJ here. My single parent would pay me to clean and I would save all the money. When my parent ran out of money to pay bills or buy food, I would lend them some of my money. It truly is an investment.
no jokes. my ma did tbe same thing, cept she take it and leave an iou.
i just started leaving money out for her to take. ridiculous.
INTJ here. That summed me up almost perfectly. Almost because I'm also ADHD.
Bro same lol
Last year I paid for my medical bill myself because the banks were closed due to civil unrest lol
Yup, I didn't save it all but I was the only one of my sibs who helped out and paid rent once I got a part-time job. Mom (divorced when I was 9) said I was the only one she felt was responsible enough (and it freed me to buy my own clothes---anything I liked not just what she could afford cus she was buying for three. The one time I borrowed from her, for something special and unexpected, she said she felt confident lending to me because she knew she would actually get it back again as opposed to my sister who she would simply accept it was a gift cus despite promises to pay Mom back, sister never would. (Yet somehow I'm the one who ended up on her 'not my real kid' list. I was adopted shortly before she got pregnant with the unreliable one, who ended up her fave child out of three. Go figure. Good thing growing up I was independent and self-reliant. )
As an INTJ kid, I didn’t plan my own startup company or disassemble a computer. I went to the library, gathered sources, and voluntarily wrote two separate research papers on toucans and anacondas for the purpose of convincing my mother to let me have them as pets.
Yes
Respect 🫡
My high school boyfriend and I used to read Soldier of Fortune magazine to learn how to assemble lazers and other stuff. Some of it was out of our price range sadly, but shopping at an Army/Navy store is still my fave shopping place! (especially as Radio Shack is no more).
I disassembled my mom’s sewing machine and she yelled so much and I put it back together. Still works 20 years later.
That’s better than my goals
In early to late elementary I focused on what other kids would likely want, namely a dragon tamer (I had an obsession with them since 5 years of age, it seemed) but at the same time I’d be planning on myself to become a successful family man to carry the family name because I figured it was far to likely my brothers wouldn’t find love like that. Eventually, I thought around my early teens that an office job would be perfect for some logical thinking but to a point I could do it and not feel overwhelmed. Now, I want to be a physicist.
Sorry
0:33 "criticizing" our parents way of parenting is the best way to make sure you're getting raised properly - me (an INTJ)
I feel like this sentence sums up INTJs perfectly
Not if one of them is a Narc, then you're just putting a target on your back. Ask me how I know! 😅
@@777LoveStory i am so sorry :(
I'm INFJ and I totally agree with this. I'll raise myself just to make sure.
@@kyurei4478 hellooo, seeing you everywhere :D
Oh my gosh! The disassembling of the laptop is so real! As an INTJ adult, this video made me realize why my parents always seemed on the verge of insanity while I was growing up. 😂
My dad was an INTJ too though. We drove my mom crazy.
@@professionallurker5996 "Son, I got you a present"
"OMG a broken laptop and a screwdriver!?"
"Don't tell your mother"
@@PaleGhost69 Accurate 😭
intj here; disassembled my brothers broken tablet despite being told not to
My parents are both ISXPs and they never seemed to know what was going on in my head. I thought it was perfectly obvious to everyone that we were all born to die at age 4 and was genuinely concerned that my classmates didn't know the word 'Hemophobia' at age 6. That was until my parents had to sit me down after a parent teacher meeting and explain to me that the general population was stupid (they didn't say that. They told me to stop expecting everyone's brain to work like mine which I took in a 'they are all stupid' way)
After a week of tying their shoes, the INTJ will then realize how inefficient it is and switch to velcro/elastic laces. 😂
Tie shoes just loose enough to slip on and off, double knot, and you are set for years. My go-to method since childhood.
I changed all my shoe laces with the elastic tie and lock, ever since I knew such thing exists. 😂 Greatest invention.
@@tyoidbone same here🙌🏻 double knot is the best!
Is there a reason for shoe laces or Velcro? Skechers has black lace less shoes at dsw. My go to is no more so had to change to new style four years ago…… really unhappy about that………..realllllly
This is me and I’m not even an INTJ.
I’m forced to use shoelaces because they are the only best looking shoes I have.
NAH, not the “hey mom, why are babies so stupid?”
Ok but why are they?
Cause they are babies
@@user-vy6kv9mr9m Yes but why? I need more information.
Where’s the baby? And do I need to bring the medicine kit?
@@yopyop3241 no he just asked
INTJ here, can confirm. This sketch is lore accurate.
I agree
Timmy's birthday party was such a waste of time.
Dude, seriously! They waste time exchanging gifts and act like they like it and calculate the price value of what they send and receive. Just go out with who you like only and have a good time or stay home. Why invite people you hate? I would never understand how they think 😑
That self-teaching as an INTJ is waaaay too relatable.
When I was in grade school, I used to do an advanced reading of our textbooks for the year (It's normally only accessible during the school year but I was pretty friendly with my teachers so they let me borrow ahead of time), and also had my parents buy me some other reference materials when we buy school stuff before the year starts. I'd end up being bored when the school year starts and mostly take naps during class since I already learned most of what was needed that year.
I wish I could tell young me to literally go outside and touch grass.
Yeah, I sailed through those SRA reading books. All the librarians knew me and I got to sometimes eat in the teachers lounge! I got to do different assignments than the others so I could be challenged and sometimes I helped the teacher grade papers instead. I did get outside tho. I liked riding my bike and there was a wonderful tree in front of my elementary school just made to sit in and read. (Lol, one time on a field trip to the LA Natural History Museum in the Egypt section, I knew more than the guide so I actually led the tour!)
School books were a joke. My real (self-)education happened outside school. In third grade I asked my teacher why don't we learn neat stuff like electromagnetism. I showed to her from a kids' science book to make sure she knew I meant. My mind had been recently blown light, relativism, and electromagnetism.
I never had a reading list given to me but because I read so much it was rare when they put up a book I hadn't read previously. Exceptions for Shakespeare because I hate it.
@@edheldude Weird, it was actually 3rd grade when we learned about it in my school. Did experiments and everything.
I'm an INFJ but I do a lot of self study. From self-studying geography during 10th grade cuz the subject had a schedule clash with business studies and I wanted to take both subjects (got an A in both btw), to self-studying physics and chemistry in 11th grade and finishing the entire iGCSE syllabus on my own by January, to self-studying 12th grade maths (i.e. AS level maths) in 11th grade and finishing my AS exams in Jan exam session, to self-studying further mathematics over the summer break after 12th grade to prepare for uni, and likewise over summer before my third semester back in undergrad, to self-studying Python over 6 weeks over a winter break during lockdown, to self-studying Japanese for the past couple of years to the point where I can now hold conversations in it (I also became fluent in Arabic some years back, although I had a boost during my last 3 years of school by switching to Arabic as a first language for Arabic subject)... to self-studying robotics for my master's degree project cuz I thought it would make for a cool project... And now I'm starting to learn Russian on my own (as my 5th language).
As a sixteen year old INTJ, I approve.
As an eleven year old INTJ, I also approve
As an INTJ who is too paranoid that people are stalking my internet profile to say my age. I approve
As an INTJ, who will soon be 14 years old, but will later regret about telling it because of being paranoid a little, I approve
All jokes aside, INTJs as kids are often very different from how they are as adults. The strong NI and TE are definitely identifiable which will lead to the kind of precociousness and creativity we see in this video. But their FI and SE will also likely be running wild at this point in their life. So half the time they wont seem like an INTJ at all. It can take a while before they realize these functions are not their strong point and start to minimize them.
For us INTJs, FI and SE are often associated with our "vices" and unrestrained passions/desires. At least that is how we view them. So as a kid, we don't control our vices or passions very well. A child INTJ will sometimes exhibit the same impulsiveness and emotional volatility as an ESFP.
oh ma gosh this makes more sense...
lookin into my childhood, i def thought i was either an ENFP or ESFP or smth
and after this video... i was gon 2nd guess my mbti
guess i am intj ....
Thank you for sharing this. That explains me as a child vs now
Accurate - I was a monster. 😂🤣
@@RiftRunnersTCG very helpful information!
I was misdiagnosed with ADD when I was a kid. Indoors I was everywhere all at once outside I was face down in the grass looking for four-leaf clovers for the entire recess.
always getting bullied and hushed for odd behavior, kids didnt undrestand and adults just didnt care
Getting bullied wasn’t easy, even INTJs get lonely.
Yup, and I shared a room with my first and worst bully, my co-first sister, whom I'm pretty sure is an ExTJ due to the amount of bossiness. But she was also easy to outwit, and I have to say that learning to duke it out with her made for great self-defense training. (She's a good foot taller than me too, and I still won all but one fight when she managed to clock me on the chin first. Usually, I could drop her before she got her fist all the way around to me.)
I was an INTJ child and I said things like "just because you've done it that way for 20 yrs doesn't mean you were doing it right" and "why can't you admit when you're wrong" and "prove to me that you're right"
YEP!
INTJ. In 8th grade I got in trouble for reading a book during math class.
INTP happened to me too
INTP funny the same thing happened to me
relatable
Get in trouble for doing in advance your homework at class or answer all your lessons or the activities book because you already finish all your assignment and you are so bored to waiting your classmates to finish their owns.
Amateur.
I got in trouble doing math during a book class (English)
As an INTJ, we are the superior children. 😆
Facts! Always top class unless it's inconvenient.
And superior teen and young adults, and with how stupid people are now maybe we will die superior.
So true, but also so sad.
INTJ here: when I was like 3, I was at a birthday party, and they had hired a clown or something. I left my peers with crayons and a coloring book, sat with the adults in the kitchen, and quietly started coloring. When asked if I wanted to go have fun with anyone else, I promptly responded "nope" and continued doing my thing
Lucky you. My parents forced me to join the party to "have fun" and I had to pretend I was having fun or else people will say, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so weird?"
😂 Sounds exactly like me, only I would have drawn my own pictures, I hated pre fabricated colouring books.
Mood.
I did the same, in kindergarden stayed with the adults, poured them tea in their breaks and helped them manage the other kids, I am an INFJ 🤭
I adore my INTJ husband and have always wished I could have seen him as a child. Thank you, Frank, for giving me a treasured peek into his past.💙
Thank you for treasuring one of us. We're an acquired taste.
@@burnyizland I get extreme surges of joy when Frank’s skits have the INTJ (my hubby) and INFJ (me) teaming up or commiserating or just sitting next to each other. Having an INTJ by your side is optimal - I * would * highly recommend it, but I would hate for them to be bothered.😏
I literally did disassemble (and reassemble with new parts) my mom's laptop when I was a kid. And i used the "investing" argument a lot when trying to get my parents to buy me something. I feel seen and it is uncomfortable lol.
I had my whole family monitoring me whenever I held something after I disassembled: remote controls, phones, pens, machines. Basically anything I had in my hands and was bored, I would either assume it into something else or disassemble it. I made a lot of cool gadgets too. 😅
As an INTJ I can only say this is freakishly on point.
Do this series with INFPs and INTPs next please!! 🙌
BRB, running this by the INTJ husband for accuracy. I can tell you now, the one about the library vs a party is spot on.
Hope he finds it accurate! 😂
@@FrankJames I have been told it is fairly on point. Although you forgot the part where he attempted to clean up spilled alcohol with a match, nearly setting the house on fire. But in his words "That was efficient".
Library = reward. Party = punishment. ;)
That's if we actually get invited. I only got invited to one high school birthday party. (She was told to invite everyone in her class so no one was left out.) She was nice enough even if we weren't friends so I went out of curiosity (research lol). I didn't know her well at all so I just bought the two lp's that were at 1 and 2 on the hit list in the Licorice Pizza store (yeah, the one in The Valley that they made some movie about recently lol). I was apparently her fave gift giver that day! (Research...do the research, eh)
You should do a sixteen personalities as homeschoolers. Great video!
Good idea! Fun fact, I was homeschooled grades 7-9
@@FrankJames I saw that In one of your videos and that's what made me think you may be interested😃
@@FrankJamesso cool, maybe you could do a video about homeschooling on your other YT chanel😊
I am an INTJ who was homeschooled for high school. Pretty sure it was for the best 😂
@@FrankJames You missed middle school? No wonder you're so cool and attractive.
The first question got me laughing badly!
Amazing job FJ. Perfect representation of an INTJ. (As an INTJ, can relate).
Drop me off at the library, my favorite place as a child.
It's like looking back at myself. Reading in school (and now), avoiding other kids, going to the library to avoid gatherings, learning obscure words....😂
I even loved history and the way societies functioned.
INTJ here!
My mom always reminds me of the time she got me a bubble blowing baby doll and I ripped it's head off to find out how the bubbles were made.
She didn't complain when I grew up and started disassembling and repairing her discman, PC or her phone...
Must admit I've repeatedly lied to people so as to avoid any kind of gathering way too often to stay at home reading or doing any kind of interesting proyect.
I'm an INTJ, but as a kid, I was more like an ISTP. Keeping things quiet, having fun exploring different games, toys, and hobbies and always making things. My true personality didn't really take shape until college or so
Also an INTJ here. Everyone else say that I'm an INTJ, but I still doubt it. No one knows that I wan an extrovert, and maybe I still am. Maybe I'm an INTJ, not because this type describes me, but because it describes me better than any other types. Or maybe I still don't quite understand my type.
FINALLY THE VIDEO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR
Me too
This video is illegal.
How can it be so accurate ????
Love it 😂❤❤❤❤❤❤
the learning things by yourself definitely is relatable, especially since you only get "I don't know " answers...
"I was too busy reading a book (or watching a video) about how bodies get embalmed." Literally I have done that. -INTJ
At 12, I found at home a book that traced greek mythology through various geological and time periods in it's development. With citations and all. I thought it was the best read ever.
Greek mythology was one of my favourite reading subjects at approximately that same age, and even younger. Wow. This must be another INTJ thing, but highly specific. 😅
As a INTJ kid myself, you read my mind like a book 😂
they say a child's come to town; they call him mr. frank james
When my INTJ daughter was a child, she use to give us money, so she didn't have to do her chores, and asked for a Barbie ATM for a Christmas. if I ever needed money, I'd ask her cause she always had some. Glad she didn't quite grasp interest rates at that point.🤣
Oh I did start my interest rate system when I was 9 I believe. I thought of it and did it from then on.
I started by saving pennies then made 10k by the time I finished highschool lol
As an INTJ, I read the World Book Encyclopedia for fun at age 7. I also used to take out this amazing dinosaur book from the library often, because it had detailed skeleton diagrams, and I traced over them to recreate what they probably looked like.
Knew four words at 8 months (by the parental count, which is likely low-balling). One time my Mom caught me disassembling something out of curiosity and when she saw the parts I was holding behind my back, I got a smackeroo. But, at age 8 or so, I pulled an old Westinghouse fan from the attic and worked on it till I got it running again. It was something my grandparents owned that you would see in a 1940s detective movie, grimy as heck. I was rewarded with air in an otherwise no A/C, very hot summer. This is just normal life to an INTJ. Reading about embalming? Yeah I'd totally do that since I dip into forensics and true crime on my break time.
"Smackeroo"? Is that some cutesy way to say you were beaten by your physically abusive mother?
@@TalkingWeirdStuff24 ^ Drama queen much?
@@elibennett6168 using an accurate description is not being a drama queen. Striking someone with physical force with the express intent of causing pain in the recipient is basically the dictionary definition of a beating.
@@TalkingWeirdStuff24 ^ Sounds like a you problem
@@TalkingWeirdStuff24 Technically speaking educating and abusing are different. I was hit as a kid too but not for abuse it's if I misbehaved and started a fight.
The autodidact is suuuch a mood XD As an INTJ, I take any excuse I can to dig deeper into my hyperfixations and really only retain information if I'm truly *interested* in it. This is why History was my favorite and best subject in high school lol
Agreed :)
Ok, now that I have found the type of child I would like to have, where do I apply for this adorable chaos? 😂
I have an idea as to how you could best accomplish that goal.
First, find an extra bright INTJ kid somewhere. Convince them to invent a time machine.
Then, travel into the future using the time machine and "meet" your very own INTJ kid, whom you are about to have in the present day time in a few years. Ask the kid who his daddy is and get as much info as you can on him.
Then, go back into your own time and find the man that the kid told you about, marry him, have the kid, and voila! 👌
The excuse to avoid Timmy’s birthday party 😂😂 I made that a looot as a child - INTJ
My dad tried to get me to bed on time telling me the monster underneath it will crawl out and eat me when he wakes up at midnightand and sees I wasn't in bed. I, A: argued that it's easier for him to eat me while I'm on the bed, why'd he wait until I'm out of the room?
B: waited until midnight, dragged my dad by the hand and showed him that monsters aren't real and he shouldn't fear them 😂
Lol, cute 😂❤
the laptop joke hit home. I used to destroy ANY electronics in the house. got electrocuted multiple times. my parents got tired of it and got me in contact with a family friend who had a car repair garage and started spending all my time there messing with cars and stopped the home wrecking. my parents were relieved.
As a former INTJ child, ALL of these are true LOL, but nothing hit harder than the shoes on the wrong feet part 🤣😂🤣 I just couldn't be bothered to care as long as they stayed on.
Honestly I just wasn't paying attention lol
Nailed the INTJ kid. Even the glasses. I remember going to the optometrist when I was young, walking straight to that exact style pair, taking them off and saying, "These." Now let's go.
Wow! The last was soo accurate!!!!!! I am still afraid if there are any cameras hidden😅😅😅
I bought the Lazer to check lol 😂
As someone who has been close friends with a few INTJs, this is so accurate. It's hard to imagine those guys as normal children.
As a child, I spent so much time in the library I was quickly bored with the kids section. I instead went to the science section, history, art and so on. I did have to avoid one librarian who did not think a kid absorbing the minutiae of biology textbooks and political biographies was appropriate. Ah, good times.
See, a librarian caring about what I was reading in the high school section could have saved me years of trauma. I had read everything of worth in the elementary section of the school library by 3rd grade, so I was allowed to check out books from the high school section. I got onto a mysteries kick in 4th grade, and after a dozen good ones, I checked out a Stephen King novel.
I do not recall the name of it now, but a very brutal scene was written to be occuring during a thunderstorm, and I just so happened to be reading that scene with a flashlight under my covers during a thunderstorm. After a very bright flash, a clap of thunder so violent that the house shook, and the power going out in the house, I was terrified! I had nightmares for WEEKS! And to this day, I canNOT read suspense without a near anxiety attack. 😂 It's stupid, I know, but no amount of logic seems to work to make it better.
Which is hilarious, because scary movies are so predictable and obvious that they don't phase me at all. I can predict exactly when the bad guys are going to jump out based on the music and the scene. But reading the same type of thing? Nope, can't do it. 😂
Me: *disappointed in discovering that “the restricted section” meant “you cannot take these home” and not “shelves of forbidden knowledge”*
Also, that moment in “UP” where the girl says “I stole this from a library book”
OMG, the shoes thing. Like the time I nearly fell down a hill in SF because my boots were on the wrong feet.
This is exactly the difference between my two oldest boys! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love INTJs, you guys are the best! --- INFP
Lots of love back to u
Plot twist: His mother is an ENFJ and thought it would be a wonderful idea if her INTJ son came with her to deliver a beautiful gift for her dear friend, Suzie’s mother. Oh look, Suzie is here, too! Well, since we are here, might as well stick around and let the kids play.
I thought the INTJ was going to count to 100 by perfect squares. That was me at least
*HYPOTHETICALLY* disassembledyourlaptop😆
I would like you to make a video focusing on the madness and sarcastic behavior of ENTPs. To me, they are the closest type to break the fourth wall and have a debate with the creator of the universe, pointing out his flaws.
Yes. We do speak ‘hypothetically’ a lot 😂😂😂
HARHARHAR, one of my favorite books as a kid was one that was like a top 100 longest words in the English language. I was also the only kid in the family (7 total kids, I was the youngest) to read our entire "fancy books" collection - ugh, except for the poetry one; I hated and still hate poetry - so syrupy, like feelz, eeewwww! I read the entire encyclopedia collection as well. And after I learned how to ride a bike I was headed off to the library on Saturdays. Always the first one to finish a test. Yet I was always a rebel, not a nerd. It's fun and weird being INTJ.
i hate poetry unless it is cosmic horror like J.R Williamson.
The "I have no idea what happened at school" it's too relatable. But now happens at college.
You didn’t have to come so hard for us “ not normals” lol 😂
Tying shoes ❌
Buying shoes without laces ✅
Not wearing shoes at all ✅
big brain move 🧠
Barefoot crew in all seasons but winter. Good boots for the ice.
Facts that's why flip flops and sandals are great
Hooray, I was sitting here avoiding being creative and now I have a payoff for my procrastination! I have learned nothing from this and I will repeat this action.
I didn't find most of these examples relevant to myself, but I did spend my entire childhood deeply questioning why I couldn't just move out and get my own place already, and then they could stop asking me to take care of other children and explain things to them. Admittedly I am Gen X, our parents did lots of stuff that would get you arrested these days, but still it was a bit unusual for me at 9 to have my 4 year old sister dumped on me while my parents went on vacation for two weeks. I spent the entire time wishing they would just keep sending me money and not come back, would still be worth being stuck with a 4 yr old (and I never could stand children, even when I was one). Nothing bad happened the entire time, so then I got constantly stuck caring for an infant right after that. At least being a INTJ gave me a boost in learning how to do everything just being shown one time.
INFJ but I can relate to so many things in this.
I guess I'm INFJ (according to 2 tests), but I don't really think those can really measure everyone. Anyhow, I do relate to much of this.
Whether we believe in it or not doesn't matter much I guess. According to the system that's what it corresponds to and sounds familiar.
Hypothetically...say...discovered...that somebody had completely disassembled your laptop 😂
I remember about learning about chromosomes from my visual encyclopedia while i was 7-8 and my mum was shocked lol.
As an INTJ, I approve this video 😂
Agreed
as an INTJ child, i confirm all of these
The scripting of these videos is brilliant!
INTJ being so mature as a kid is accurate.
omg LOVE the Calvin & Hobbes reference XD Also my INTJ spouse agrees with your assessment XD ~Sassy~
This is the comment I was looking for!
Again I can relate more to the INTJ-kid....but then again, i am ISTJ. Well done Frank, you made me laugh 🤣
Same lol, not really about the smart stuff more just the cynical stuff😅
😂 spooky kid for spooky season! 😮
I did take apart a clock as a kid.
The book about embalming bodies. Now I know what type my parents' friend the mortician was.😂
Since dad was an ME, I was fortunate enough to have instant access to postmortem books. Tragically, they were lost in a move.
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Yeah, we are like this 😂. Accurate depiction.
INTJ female: i dismantled an old recording machine with full confidence I could piece it back and get it working. Guess what? It remained dismantled.
Every instance in this video was 100% my life...
Most intjs I met when I was in school actually had a soft, insecure voice. It was funny how they were so matter of fact and at the same time vulnerable. And I (infp) was the sensible one T.T Sure.
INTJ here. Well, yes, we are like that.
I read books during class early on because Morgan Freeman taught me to read when I watched The Electric Company before I started kindergarten and my mom's best friend had me up and running as a fluent reader by 1st grade.
In high school I was ignoring my American history teacher as he was going on about WWII because I was reading my own copy of The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. Long story short, after asking me to summarize it for the class, he let me continue reading during class because I was learning far more than the typical public school education could give me.
Also, the last history paper I turned he gave a 95% instead of 100% because of alleged grammatical mistakes. My English teacher was the head of the English department, so the next day I took in my history paper rough draft and asked her if it was grammatically correct as written. She said yes, it was. The next day I told him he should change my grade to 100% because the head of the English department thought he was wrong. He didn't change my grade.
Yes, I did go on to homeschool 3 kids K-12. Yes, they did start college at ages 17, 15, and 17.
This is so relatable. I remember constantly putting the wrong shoe on the wrong foot as a child and walking around without even realising it before someone points it out. And I also remember being so proud of myself the first time I tied my shoes myself.😂😂
Well, I learned I'm definitely not a INTJ lol
Excellent, as always.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😂
As a kid, I fell from a rocking horse in kindergarten so hard that I hit my head and the rocking horse fell onto me. Had a wound on the back of my head that needed 7 stitches. Mom came rushing, brought me to the doctor and while I was sitting on her lap telling her how this accident happened the doctor closed the wound without even the need to give me painkillers or anything. As I finished talking I asked her how on earth could the doctor take so long to be ready for the stitches and she said "He's already done"😂 Well, I guess I always was an INTJ
after infj and intj, maybe we can have a infp version.
l can't wait to see how my childhood look like.
This is the video I’ve been waiting for!
FJ, this is a great video. Love the normal, but, we all have that lildevil...😂
Sorry, Suzzy, but ....? Cmon lets see a sequel...😊
Stay c&a❤🧡🍋
INTJ husband disassembled and assembled their first family computer when he was a child 😂 my MIL almost had a heart attack. And yes, he did teach himself a lot of things. Taught himself how to draw, how to program, HTML, that’s how he realized he wanted to go into IT.
Video idea:Personalities talking to their opposites (example: INTP talking to ESFJ)
As an INTJ, I can relate to being simultaneously nerdy and logical while also being dumb and oblivious sometimes 😂
One of my friends is an INTJ. This video is like watching her on tv. But instead of her it’s you and instead of tv it’s RUclips.
I was mentioned insurance in a homework assignment at eight 😂
DISSASSEMBLING THINGS 😅
As an INTJ, this was familiar to me.
That was terrifying. Thanks. I need to think now.
AWWW i guess we all had the same childhood. Im impressed how u come up with these because i def remember trying to impress people with my ability to count to 100 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Ironically, as an INTJ child, I was more the “I’m just gonna sit by myself and read/draw/write and talk to nobody” kid but to be fair, I did also ask A LOT of questions like this INTJ child here. Not the exact same one’s mind you but a lot nonetheless. 😂
"I was too busy reading about how dead bodies are embalmed" omg this made me laugh lol 😅
I'm not even an INTJ, but I can relate to reading and focusing on weirdly specific subjects lol