Man, I wish there were a “Periodt” button along constructive and like. mu4 I know you’re reading this and this could become a marketing win for every social media, let’s put 16types on the map for doing it first!
But shit, I was not phased one bit by this post because I had already realized all of this myself. It took maybe up until the last two years for me to debunk my own Ni with Ni. When there’s nothing left to recognize on the outside, what else is there to do but recognize how you recognize it (and yes, I’m skipping straight from recognizing outside to recognizing the process, rather than recognizing the internal in between because fuck them feelings - I’ll take my 7 fix extra large with a side of Sp last.
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Before I became aware of this, I had no idea of how to explain Ni or even what it WAS. I spent years wondering “What the fuck? Is Ni? Why is nobody explaining it in real terms like every other stinking function we know? Why is it so special?” - these thoughts lead to my many mistypes: Every Ne ego type, but mostly IEE for a very long time and Gamma SF. I knew my Si was too shit for an Si ego. But it’s like, I mistyped for such a long time because I could not see the process I was always using, that was right in front of my face, WAS Ni. Because NOBODY seemed to know how to put it into words - especially people who were typing as Ni ego but really weren’t. It was the types I was avoiding all along that I was in the ballpark of (I’m not counting Si ego types, which I was also avoiding, because if you know anything about me you know my Si is shit and I could talk all day about it.).
So thank you very much for that post.
I have spoken of pattern recognition and significance in private but was never able to explain the full deal as well as you just did. BTW I have never related to any LIE more than I have to you, maybe consider the beta dark side? JK, it is clear you’re a logical type. Maybe the issue is that other LIEs around these parts are not LIE...
I have only related this highly to Beta NFs in my life.