I Illustrate The Difficulties I Face As An Introvert
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I draw “INFJoe Cartoons” to encourage and validate fellow introverts and INFJs (one of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types). I try to find a little humor in the difficulties introverts and INFJs face while navigating life, so making these cartoons is also a kind of therapy for me.
I began drawing them with a Sharpie on regular copy paper. In 2013, however, when my wife and I planned a 2-month trip to Spain, I bought an iPad to be more mobile and started making them with a stylus and Paper by FiftyThree.
For those of you who do not share the introvert preference or the INFJ personality type, I hope these cartoons will give you a little insight and understanding into our world. Thank you for looking!
More info: infjoe.wordpress.com
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I'm an INTJ and also a female, the rarest personality type for a girl. It's definitely hard. People think I'm shy and weird; I'm not, I'm just more comfortable alone or with very few people. I instinctively view people as irrational and this really annoys my family, with the exception of my twin sister, also an INTJ. I'm so glad this comic depicts what I do, especially the not-talking part. People get annoyed about that. :)
INTJ female here too!I get easily tired by interaction with other people and quickly bored..:/ I gotta say its hard.Tired of hearing that i'm ''antisocial''
Same. I'd much rather my own company than make the effort to be social
Same! Worst is when I hear it from my overly social boyfriend who always wants to hang out with big group of friends...
Lol!! Fellow im ntroverts, unite...... on skype, in our own homes. Everyone bring your own bottle of wine, and some snacks and we can all watch dr who on netfilx. Seperately lol but still together... thru skype :) yes??
58 year old, white Christian heterosexual male (need other reasons to hate me?) silicon valley millionaire, lost millions, etc. I understand all of these illustrations and your situation, whoever you are and want you to know that you are OK like the author posts below. When I was young, my mother would become irritated when my eyes turned red when we shopped in public. I was overwhelmed but did not know it and did not have the language. Be happy, fellow freaks. I like people who don't care for people.
INTJ female here! I have such a hard time with my mom's family which are all a bunch of extroverts. Also, I always mess up when talking to people, hurt their feelings with no intention. Can't do anything about it, tho.
Yep! INTJ WoC, here. Hello!
I'm an INTJ girl too. :) I'm a total introvert, and can I just say that if I owned my place, that door WOULD be My door. I saw all the locks and was like, "OMG, I'm not the only one!"
I'm INFJ and my lifetime boyfriend is INTJ. It's funny how actually INFJ and INTJ can understand each other easily, and make their company of the other one "bearable" ^^ People don't get the way we work, we both do our stuff, he is in his office on his computer, I'm watching documentary about monkeys on tv, and we met somewhere in the middle. He gives me the space I need, I do the same, but we ALWAYS feel this deep connection, INTJ are so realiable ! It works very well in a relationship, I'm in charge of the "present moment", and he's planning our future, it's a win-win situation ;)
INTJ here I relate too.
ah my people :D female INFJ/P here
Me too. Hi! I'm not strongly introverted, but I can identify with a lot of the above images.
"'m an INTJ and also a female, the rarest personality type for a girl." Wow, I didn't realize we were rare!
Wow your twin is an INTJ too. Being so rare, it's wonderful that you two have someone else who "gets" the other.
I absolutely love these! It's good to know that someone else understands how this all feels. Haha. Thank you!
Thank you for looking!
Add comma after INFJocelyn and change the period after website to a question mark.
INFJocelyn aka me, loves this. Do you have a website. Message it to jocelyn lefay townsend.
I am INTP and I guess my case is that I canot accept myself for who I am. I often interact with people but all I say is just a bunch of rubbish because I rarely truly want to have that conversation. This makes people think that I care for them when I don't. It seems that few people have this problem which makes it harder accepting myself for who I am. I want to have a lot of friends but it's hard to text or ask people out regularly because you don't really want to see them. I wish I wasn't an introvert.
You couldn't have expressed me any better. You are in my brain. I know, you don't want to be;)
Well spoken/said, C monday! I feel I am right were(=Allmost! ) I wanna be=with my kind of people I ment.. Best to Talk less and enjoy Moore... but the Outrovert - people are so boring jadajadajada(=blablabla.) Sooo nice when we feel in our 'bones' we are at the Right place:-compared to a crowded place with j'abba-talkers'. What is worse: boredom or suffering( ? ) -and should I mix in: lonelyness aswell ? I believe those who talk Less than moore is much Wiser. Gitt be true.
Hahaha thank you Dalia! Funny when (-:and I well know what you mean..!) About: want to ask people out but Din't Really wanna see them.. oh maybe I am wrong like: I am Not shure what you mean... because I have to decribe it the way it is for me: Got 1 girl-friend, one 'crazy' mother and Don't know my daughter over 19 years now and Hope to meet family Father - side wich I never have but live together with the father of Our Only 'child' and I was Denied to rause her... so I wonder:did I want it this Lonely way or did I not Desurve a better life cause i've done some Bad things long time ago... will it get better if I tried to change and do things differently so I'll be 'rewarded' some - how and get to be moore satisfied=feel better and smile moore... seems I May be scared of changing if it Fails... cause I can barely cope with my life as ut is for a while now... my fault and it takes all of me to find ways to cope...
Norway is a nice place to be an introvert :) Small talk with strangers is a big no-no. And in public space, almost everyone takes the seat farthest away from anyone else. Personal space is pretty much sacred here.
sounds Heaven for me, I wanna go there :) Sadly in my country personal space means nothing... here you MUST be cheerfully social... I'm cheerfully social, but only for animals. It could sound sad but I can't help it and here noone tolerate this point of view. The only people I like and can understand are my comrades and my mom :)
I'm an INTJ and also a female, the rarest personality type for a girl. It's definitely hard. People think I'm shy and weird; I'm not, I'm just more comfortable alone or with very few people. I instinctively view people as irrational and this really annoys my family, with the exception of my twin sister, also an INTJ. I'm so glad this comic depicts what I do, especially the not-talking part. People get annoyed about that. :)
INTJ female here too!I get easily tired by interaction with other people and quickly bored..:/ I gotta say its hard.Tired of hearing that i'm ''antisocial''
Same. I'd much rather my own company than make the effort to be social
Same! Worst is when I hear it from my overly social boyfriend who always wants to hang out with big group of friends...
Lol!! Fellow im ntroverts, unite...... on skype, in our own homes. Everyone bring your own bottle of wine, and some snacks and we can all watch dr who on netfilx. Seperately lol but still together... thru skype :) yes??
58 year old, white Christian heterosexual male (need other reasons to hate me?) silicon valley millionaire, lost millions, etc. I understand all of these illustrations and your situation, whoever you are and want you to know that you are OK like the author posts below. When I was young, my mother would become irritated when my eyes turned red when we shopped in public. I was overwhelmed but did not know it and did not have the language. Be happy, fellow freaks. I like people who don't care for people.
INTJ female here! I have such a hard time with my mom's family which are all a bunch of extroverts. Also, I always mess up when talking to people, hurt their feelings with no intention. Can't do anything about it, tho.
Yep! INTJ WoC, here. Hello!
I'm an INTJ girl too. :) I'm a total introvert, and can I just say that if I owned my place, that door WOULD be My door. I saw all the locks and was like, "OMG, I'm not the only one!"
I'm INFJ and my lifetime boyfriend is INTJ. It's funny how actually INFJ and INTJ can understand each other easily, and make their company of the other one "bearable" ^^ People don't get the way we work, we both do our stuff, he is in his office on his computer, I'm watching documentary about monkeys on tv, and we met somewhere in the middle. He gives me the space I need, I do the same, but we ALWAYS feel this deep connection, INTJ are so realiable ! It works very well in a relationship, I'm in charge of the "present moment", and he's planning our future, it's a win-win situation ;)
INTJ here I relate too.
ah my people :D female INFJ/P here
Me too. Hi! I'm not strongly introverted, but I can identify with a lot of the above images.
"'m an INTJ and also a female, the rarest personality type for a girl." Wow, I didn't realize we were rare!
Wow your twin is an INTJ too. Being so rare, it's wonderful that you two have someone else who "gets" the other.
I absolutely love these! It's good to know that someone else understands how this all feels. Haha. Thank you!
Thank you for looking!
Add comma after INFJocelyn and change the period after website to a question mark.
INFJocelyn aka me, loves this. Do you have a website. Message it to jocelyn lefay townsend.
I am INTP and I guess my case is that I canot accept myself for who I am. I often interact with people but all I say is just a bunch of rubbish because I rarely truly want to have that conversation. This makes people think that I care for them when I don't. It seems that few people have this problem which makes it harder accepting myself for who I am. I want to have a lot of friends but it's hard to text or ask people out regularly because you don't really want to see them. I wish I wasn't an introvert.
You couldn't have expressed me any better. You are in my brain. I know, you don't want to be;)
Well spoken/said, C monday! I feel I am right were(=Allmost! ) I wanna be=with my kind of people I ment.. Best to Talk less and enjoy Moore... but the Outrovert - people are so boring jadajadajada(=blablabla.) Sooo nice when we feel in our 'bones' we are at the Right place:-compared to a crowded place with j'abba-talkers'. What is worse: boredom or suffering( ? ) -and should I mix in: lonelyness aswell ? I believe those who talk Less than moore is much Wiser. Gitt be true.
Hahaha thank you Dalia! Funny when (-:and I well know what you mean..!) About: want to ask people out but Din't Really wanna see them.. oh maybe I am wrong like: I am Not shure what you mean... because I have to decribe it the way it is for me: Got 1 girl-friend, one 'crazy' mother and Don't know my daughter over 19 years now and Hope to meet family Father - side wich I never have but live together with the father of Our Only 'child' and I was Denied to rause her... so I wonder:did I want it this Lonely way or did I not Desurve a better life cause i've done some Bad things long time ago... will it get better if I tried to change and do things differently so I'll be 'rewarded' some - how and get to be moore satisfied=feel better and smile moore... seems I May be scared of changing if it Fails... cause I can barely cope with my life as ut is for a while now... my fault and it takes all of me to find ways to cope...
Norway is a nice place to be an introvert :) Small talk with strangers is a big no-no. And in public space, almost everyone takes the seat farthest away from anyone else. Personal space is pretty much sacred here.
sounds Heaven for me, I wanna go there :) Sadly in my country personal space means nothing... here you MUST be cheerfully social... I'm cheerfully social, but only for animals. It could sound sad but I can't help it and here noone tolerate this point of view. The only people I like and can understand are my comrades and my mom :)