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Fe when you were young

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Since Fe is your third function, how did you express it when you was a kid? Best case scenario, a few examples.

My current imaginative state says that you would've been trying to fit your clothes to the current fashion style at least a little bit, as well as your appearance. Also try to be nice to others, even if you weren't, at least tried. Just two examples.
 

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How about *no* examples?

I didn't express it. Numb like a corpse.

Edit: Also, Fe is not the third function for INTPs.
 

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Since Fe is your third function, how did you express it when you was a kid? Best case scenario, a few examples.

My current imaginative state says that you would've been trying to fit your clothes to the current fashion style at least a little bit, as well as your appearance. Also try to be nice to others, even if you weren't, at least tried. Just two examples.

Fe? It caused me more problems than I have fingers. Temper tantrums, lashing out, the whole gamut. Then Ti came along and saved the day!

-Duxwing
 

louiesgonnadie

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I used to be destructive (even to the point of kicking doors down) when I got angry. I might blurt out the wrong thing in conversation, and had minor to moderate trouble fitting into groups.

That's the gist of it.
 

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I have pretty much always been polite in a genuine, immediate way that takes people off guard. I don't tend to either notice or decide to recognise what counts as how nice you should be to someone you just met or what you should say. However, I also forget almost that it ever happened when they leave and most people don't know how to handle that kind of approach anyway. I have an Fe dom mother so I guess that accounts for some attention being paid to Fe. I mean, I'd be nice, but I wouldn't go out of my way to make friends. I was voluntarily, naively, happily alone 98% of my time or talking with my one best friend or the staff. That's pretty much how things are now, except I am much more socially-aware. My primary school class never changed so by the time I went to secondary school I had no idea how to make friends. I'm still terrible at it. So, that's my Fe social skills snapshot over 18 years. The difference now is that I consciously choose to avoid people and how I act towards them based on my routines, experience and principles.

I have a different take on your clothing point. I recognised clothing conventions, but after deciding girls' clothes were illogical I have gone out of my way to wear at first clothes I thought were practical and then clothes that were both practical and projected the don't-judge-me-by-your-girl-stereotypes image I want. At the moment I do that and just wear clothes I think are oversized, warm, durable and comfy. So I wear jeans absolutely everyday, plus a hoody or fleece and t shirt. There is a subconscious recognition of social patterns, but my parents, again, were an Fe-Si and an Si-Te so I might be slightly more affected than nbrmal. This does not mean I go along with convention. I avoid it. I was also an extremely naïve person until about my mid-teens. I see these things as having subconscious effects on how I think, but not what I choose or my morals, values and personal image.

Regarding emotions, dealing with either my emotions or those of others just was not part of my life when I was younger. I didn't think about it and I may well not have been aware of it. Learning to deal with emotions, in a dispassionate, controlling Ti mind, has been and is difficult.

That's about it, I think.
 

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By the way, when I say 'much more socially aware', I mean I have reached about the minimum to get by in the contemporary world. One of my problems is that I can't be bothered with lies, conventions and fascades so I'll be direct and attempt to have interesting conversations. Another is just being ignorant of a lot of social conventions.
 

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@thelithiumcat appreciate a descriptive answer. You seem to be very independent, but I'm not sure if recognition is related to Fe. I'm a Fi user and I recognize how people act, expect you to act and what is a social norm. Although, I must admit that I don't always recognize something that was expected of me, or I have trouble interpreting what someone wants if he's the REAL emotional manipulator like an ESFJ - saying one thing, expecting another, or mentioning something completely out of context expecting you to do what he wants.

Other than that, I do recognize and understand the general concept of the social conventions. I attiribute that to Se for me, while Ti for you.
 
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