[Deliberator]

	Originally Posted by sairakh To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	INTJs commonly get accused of being arrogant, aloof, or antisocial. Has anyone been (wrongly/rightly) accused of this recently? What were you doing that caused the accusation? Another thing: Does anyone act arrogant on purpose just to get people to go away?

Although it isn't Who I Am as a person, I have been (rightly) accused of this behavior occasionally. If I want someone to go away I am not necessarily arrogant, but aloof and cold definitely, which some people call 'being a jerk' I guess.

What was I doing? It's more like what I wasn't doing... smiling, saying 'hi', all that crap because I was busy thinking about something.

[Campbell]

A few weeks ago I had a guy on my construction crew tell me that I was an “arrogant, condescending asshole” because I told him I had unplugged the table saw when he went over to use it. I thought I was saving him the trouble of turning the saw on and realizing it wasn’t working, but apparently I was just being a horrible person in his eyes. It was so ridiculous I started laughing at him, which of course just made him madder (and probably convinced him even more of my supposed arrogance).

As for the second question, I don’t ever remember acting arrogant on purpose to drive someone away. People don’t tend to hang around me for too long anyway, so maybe I’m just naturally arrogant enough to make them go away without any extra effort on my part.

[Booko]

	Originally Posted by Zsych To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Ask yourself your real opinion of the people around you. How capable you think they are? What flaws you think they have? Whether you have those flaws or not?

Yeah, I do that pretty much daily.

	And then see if you don't think you're better than them.

In some ways yes, in others, not.

[thecolouramanda]

	Originally Posted by sairakh To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
	Another thing: Does anyone act arrogant on purpose just to get people to go away?

I'm not an arrogant person, really, but if someone does not interest me, I don't make an effort to get to know them, especially if the person does not earn my respect. So this 'introversion' gives others the impression that I'm stuck up. It's happened since primary school, but I don't really care. It's no my business that others make the mistake of judging me so quickly.
If someone interests me, then I would make an effort to get to know that person. Then people would think I'm an extrovert.
The few who are close to me know that I'm not arrogant, I just have my own way of viewing the world; as for those who don't get me, whatever.

But YES, I do act arrogant on purpose just to get people to go away. If it doesn't put my work at stake, then whatever, I'll piss them off just so they'll go away, especially those who are really fake and try to butter things up. Ugh. Even those who load praises on me which I don't care about and are over the top. Liars, all of them.

[GouldFan]

I'm not arrogant by my definition.
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[Zsych]

Not to worry, you're INTJ. You're some level of arrogant by a normal (weak) person's definition
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[Cooper]

Some women have called me an arrogant prick. Most men will call me an arrogant bastard. I am what I am, sometimes some people just don't like it.

[Fox]

Well it is all true.

I try to keep it under control by watching my tongue or making sure I smile when being myself. Then I get the "Oh you're so terrible" but we like you comments.