As you Age as a INFJ does dealing with people become more frustrating?

Question for INFJs only

I’m 30 years old and I think it gets to a point where the optimism I once had when I was younger is slowly fading away

Because as I age I think one of the biggest pills I ever had to swallow was that most people don’t change

They may mature, know themselves more but the core of most people truly never changes

And I guess sometimes it can be saddening

I honestly hate hearing from people that I’m

“Unique”
“Not the usual”
“You’re different”

Because it’s really not gonna be benefit me it tells me people are way different from me and it’s really not changing any time soon.

Being “different” isn’t some like moment you hit Gold and everything in the world turns butterflies and rainbows NO it’s honestly the opposite

Everything becomes a challenge and you constantly have to explain your thinking to people because they aren’t used to thinking like you it’s so freaking ughhh frustrating.

Like sometimes at work especially at meetings when everyone literally doesn’t know what you’re talking about because they don’t travel outside their perspective for once

Then just to get rid of that frustration I gotta isolate myself for about a week and pretend everyone learned and go about life as normal

sometimes it comes to a point where I don’t even want to talk anymore, no matter what happens

It’s not like the game of life and how people approach it is changing.

Sorry for the rambling but if i can sum this post up it’ll be this

It kinda feels like the level of thinking a INFJ has is in 2100 while people still live in 2026 and you’re just waiting

I had this feeling ever since I was young

Maybe I was wrong about change not really being able to happen

But I do think I underestimated how long change actually does take to happen.

Posted May 28, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC

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