And then what happens? Yes, I'm serious. Both my brother and boyfriend are strong I's, and it just baffles me when they are unable to articulate what is on their mind. Is it like too much to limit to words, or inability to find the right words, or that it would take too long to verbalize all the connections to correctly convey so you just don't try?
It depends on what kind of mood I am in. If I am in heavy Fi mode, I want to be left alone usually. I am not interested in verbalizing what amounts to nothing important being said.
If I am feeling pretty Ne-boingy, then I have no problem. I amaze myself at my own hilarious wit and banter (this sounds horribly narcissitic, but if you take it from the viewpoint that my primary mode is silent and contemplative and let's think things through ten times before we even dare look at saying them... then it makes more sense).
I can handle small talk to some extent (God how I hate it) since my job requires I do this with my customers. By the end of the day though I think "I swear to God, I will pop the next person to comment on the weather, or how green the grass looks." When I am like this I literally cannot think of anything to say.
Like, I just had my best friend come visit for 2 weeks. I love her to death, but she drove me insane towards the end. She wanted to talk FOR HOURS about basically nothing. I was at my wit's end because there was nothing for me to grab onto in the conversational arena, so I got very, very, very quiet. And I hated that because I was glad she was there, it was just that I was literally out of things to say in response to what she was saying. Two weeks of "I ate grapes last week", "here is a picture of some food I bought", "So I was telling Jim about what Mary said and then Trent came over and was like holy banana pie! And then Jim said..." and my brain could no longer cope.