Well, one could reasonably say that the answer is yes because of inferior Fe and the fact that it's generally associated with emotional outbursts. I, however, wouldn't say that I'm sensitive, nor most of the ISTPs I've seen so far. I think this is more of a personal question rather than type-dependent, but that's just my opinion.

 

when people identify an "istp" there are a few different things they may be looking at. now, in mbti, the istp is Ti Se, but in socionics the ISTp is Si Te. i have seen socionics lsi and sli both type as mbti istp (among other things).

sli istp probably has more of a vulnerable sensitivity than lsi istp. i have often seen sli istp become easily hurt, or suddenly erupt in a seemingly uncharacteristic way. lsi istp can be more expressive in general than sli istp, i suspect lsi's own emotions aren't as much a mystery to them as sli istp's are.

sli can seem very stoic and even cold, but they are extremely sensitive though they won't often show it.

 

I sometimes wonder.

Do people think we're like aliens or something, like we can relate to other humans and their strange culture of please and thank yous and FUCK OFFs?

I guess I am sensitive to logical fallacies because threads like this just drive me up the wall.

 

ISTPs tend not to get hurt or offended easily. But at some point everybody is sensitive. Beneath our cognitive functioning we all have human hearts, and what feels good and bad to those hearts depends on so many individual things. Please don't try to stress-test an ISTP (or anyone else)'s sensitivity. It's there.

 

Please don't try to stress-test an ISTP (or anyone else)'s sensitivity. It's there.

Pretty much this. I can get outright violent to the point of blacking out with real memory loss of what happened. IRL example: Nothing like coming to sing your whole workspace effectively demolished with no memory of you at all doing anything (and getting fired as a result). The trigger? A workplace that makes illogical changes to work procedures that are already at peak effectiveness and efficiency to something clunky to the point of your rates getting harmed (IE: drops of %50+) and people getting fired in droves because of it. There is a reason why I refuse to use Amazon for shopping.

 

My ISTP boyfriend can get pretty upset sometimes when he feels I'm not being completely honest about my feelings--even over seemingly insignificant things like whether I *really* want to see Guardians of the Galaxy (no). To me, it's more intuitive to try to simplify a long string of thoughts and feelings so as not to overwhelm him, and sometimes I just don't want to hurt his feelings. He does not like this. He'd rather have me explain myself in painstaking detail rather than have to figure it out himself.

That said, he wouldn't give a shit if I told him I didn't want to see some movie he was super excited about, or whatever.

 

We're plenty sensitive. Our Fe sucks. Therefore we have trouble knowing what to do with what people think about us (criticism), but also, we have trouble sharing/expressing that. So we look less sensitive, not more. We can look insensitive because we really don't care about something you expect us to, too.

Like with any type, the healthier we are, the less sensitive we get. That varies a lot within any type.



I do this. Excuse the rant, but that sort of thing happens to me a lot. Hopefully at least OP finds it illuminating.

This is also inferior Fe. If you're being vague about things, kind of saying you want to see a movie but also implying you don't (or the other way around), there's obviously some emotional subtext an ISTP is "supposed" to pick up on. But with crap Fe, we don't know what! We just know that the words coming out of your mouth have nothing to do with what your real, honest answer is. But that usually when people communicate that way, they expect us to have understood the real answer as though they actually said it. (Somehow, magically, by reading their minds.)

This is really stressful and makes us try to avoid the whole problem by demanding you just say your exact, literal meaning. That way, your boyfriend doesn't take you all the way to the movie, just for you to finally let on that no, you didn't really want to come here in the first place, and what's wrong with him for making you come here? I have been blamed for "making" people do what they literally told me they wanted to do before, because I didn't pick up on some obscure clue that they didn't mean it. To me, this is just being lied to and then attacked.

An ITP that's experienced this enough can get oversensitive, and see it when it's not there. Sometimes people are straightforward, but we can't tell for sure. That might be what's going on if you're telling your ISTP the truth and he still keeps asking. He needs your whole thought process to be sure, because where you say he doesn't want to "figure it out himself," there may not be a way to do that. Either you tell him, or he takes wild guesses in the dark. That's how it is for me.

Being unclear to avoid hurting my feelings will always hurt my feelings more. If someone just doesn't want what I want, that's fine. Why would they be me? We'll find some other common ground. But if they go along with me anyway then when I find out, I've been: lied to, embarrassed (this whole time they knew something I didn't), patronized, tricked into burdening them, and dismissed (I asked what they wanted, and they ignored that request).

It's sensitivity, I guess. A specific learned sensitivity from years of having people make me guess, then be inexplicably mad at me when I didn't guess right. It's trying to avoid a problem but overcompensating.

 

Offended? Nah.

Upset? Yah - only when someone criticizes the way we do something or the way we think.

 

Cruelty and unfairness bother me considerably, though it never really shows. Can recall seeing footage of a Palestinian father, nearly collapsing and crying over seeing his son die right in front of him. It hurt me a lot to see that such a thing come to be, but my body looked neutral to everyone else. No one knew how much it dug into my soul.

 

That's beautiful

 

I would say this depends on how well developed the fourth function of Fe is for the ISTP in question.

I was personally in a relationship with an ESFJ for 6 years and I have a pretty good understanding of Fe and I have developed mine a great deal. However, Fe is the inferior function of an ISTP, and therefore, ISTPs that have not developed the Fe function may seem quite insensitive to other feeling types.

 

For me it's about how stressed I am. My shadow functions appear if I'm under a great deal of stress and then emotional outbursts tend to happen...

 

Well, I guess it all boils down to the situation. I can quite frankly say that there is nothing you can offend me with and most times I just won't care about what you think or say about me as long as you let me go my way, but I can kinda see an unpleasant reaction if you don't. I may not be the best example though as I've got quite the history with emotional hardiness.

 

I'm so insensitive that any time I use sarcasm people think I'm being dead serious, or maybe it's some advanced form of sarcasm?? They get thrown into a flurry of confusion and befuddled looks.

 

I'm sensitive to bullshit.

 

I'm not easily offended, but I am sensitive. I dislike when people criticize my logic or reasoning. I can even be a baby sometimes. My inferior Fe has improved over the years, but it's not perfect. I also struggle "reading between the lines" of implied feelings; I'll often swing to the "what are you trying to tell me?" question, because I'm not a mind reader. I can read intention; not what "I'm fine" means.

In turn, I can also be insensitive to others. If people try to argue with me based on conviction that lacks any grounding rather than conviction developed out of common sense and logic--I can get pretty harsh.

 

I'm sensitive to immaturity. Especially with people older than myself.

And if they're being a bit of a douche I'll get pretty snarky if they tell me to lighten up.

 

Yes, we just have this way of keeping it hidden from other people, which does carry it's own problem in the way of people don't know how to react when we do show emotions/sensitive side. For example when my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, I was the one everyone looked to, to keep it together, ie cool head when things are going wrong, but yet inside I was hurting but didn't show it.

 

yea we are

 

Sometimes. For me I only really get offended when people insult a subject that's sensitive to me. Then I get over it, but in the heat of the moment I do get offended. I also tend to get heated in political debates as well.

Subjects to not piss me off with:
- Mental health or medical problems really.
- US troops.
- Relationship topics/issues.
- Animal abuse or abuse to children and innocent people.

I think that's about it.