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Originally Posted by Athenian200
...from the moment you start interacting with the world, you're able to use all functions in a primitive, basic way. Developing them past that basic point is what's referred to. For instance, even an INFP has enough "T" to learn how to use a doorknob, or seek and fetch an object for another person from a fairly early age, but they would struggle with more complex T-oriented tasks. And even an ESTJ experiences emotional discomfort if someone is cruel to them, but they may not be as able to express or deal with their discomfort, and would tend just react to everything with either anger or repression until reaching a higher level of development.
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Yup. You use them all. It's more a matter of prioritization.
For the record, I have seen secondary functions manifest in young children. Everyone's different, not all move as quickly to the secondary. And perhaps the secondary wasn't yet as matured as the primary, but it was still discernable.
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And all that's known of Ti and Fi is that they lend themselves to P-oriented behaviors, but I can't provide as much on that.
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Well, they're open-ended externally because they need all the information to fuel the internal judging. That's what happens.
The experience is rather odd. Inside, I feel like a very critical person. Every comment, every piece of information that comes in, is immediately crunched, i.e., applied to the model of reality so that there is a definite, describable model that things either conform to or do NOT conform to. But it's constantly being refreshed by every new piece of information. So each piece of info is being weighed as "correct" or 'incorrect", judged, and saved or discarded.
But outwardly, everything's all flexy. Even if internally it's not. Because there is always "more information" that could invalidate the model, so I can't judge EXTERNALLY (the information "out there" is limitless and can't be evaluated that way, to me), only internally (because that is where my standards are specific, and definable, and supreme). So it's judged only when it comes inside.