From my experience growing up with a pair of Ni dom/aux parents: in general, we didn't have much trouble understanding each other...
I agree, I think we
do tend to understand each other pretty well.
That's why, when people start talking about "I can't see this person's Ni/Ne/Si/Se/yada yada", I'm like, I dunno if that's the best language to describe it... I think we get each other a lot of the time; our brains/minds just function differently.
[MENTION=6166]Orobas[/MENTION]
...but they're teachers so that helped.
Well, when it comes to Ni and Ne, isn't that just a tautology?
What they usually had problems with was the fact that I would often take small things out of context and run with them on my own tangents just because I thought they were interesting, and forget, in the process, to grasp the entirety of the thought they'd expressed.
Yup, that's the main one.
The other annoying one, which has been described above as well (I believe by Giegs), is when we go in-depth about a matter, not just normal-analysis mode, but our real in-depth, at-our-best stuff, and you guys seem to have no idea what we're talking about. It's like, "Dude... this is my best shit right here! You think I'm smart cuz of all the normal stuff we talk about, but for Christ's sake! This is THE BEST SHIT I have to offer! And you don't even get it!!!" Haha, yeah, as you can see, that one's frustrating. But, now that I think about it, they're probably just manifestations of the same underlying issue: just, in this case, when we're going really in depth into something, like in the previous example, you guys keep firing away on a thousand different paths, and it utterly confuses you, but now, there's probably
that much more material for you to go off on. It makes us feel like you guys don't really seem to understand how to dive deep into the issue, at least not in the way or with the language that we use to do so. That's the weird part, though. Cuz I don't think you guys lack depth. I think NFPs have Fi depth and NTPs have Ti depth. It's just, for whatever reason, I dunno, maybe it's the language used, you guys just don't seem to get our depth. Maybe Fi and Ti can't translate Ni, and when you try to use Ne to translate, it only does so partially, before it runs off and does what it does, chasing some offshoot of the explanation we're diving deeply into.
*sounds of Ne'ers footsteps running in a thousand different directions*
In turn, they sometimes wondered why I had such a circuitous way of doing things and just wanted me to get to the point and I was like, "Look, I'm trying to fit all these cool and totally relevant things into my schema, and I'm interested in them, so let me finish before you decide for me what I should be focussing on, will you?! I AM BEING OPPRESSED, WAAH."