Mal12345
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- 5w4
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- sx/sp
If someone drops a subtle hint on me, as when a female shows sexual interest in me and I don't catch on to it, I've just had a sensotard moment. Most women I've known have been subtle (or delicate?), not obvious, when it comes to the sexual area. I'm bad when it comes to my surroundings as it is, and hinting at things just makes it that much harder for me. The hardest part is when it comes to communicating with Sensors, especially when I'm supposed to come up with a particular answer on the spot. This sometimes leads to a psychological phenomenon known as "talker's regret," when my response was the wrong one and I spend the next few hours mulling over my mistake.
The language of intuition, on the other hand, is not the delicate hint, but the more-or-less obscure metaphor. Some metaphors are more obvious than others, and understanding it often depends on the education level of the listener/reader. A co-worker of mine had an intuitard moment when I told him I was glad to get that albatross off of my neck. He's an Se-dom, the type perhaps the most prone to intuitard moments as their minds relate directly to the physical world, whereas the Si-dom relates to it only indirectly via concretistic subjective impressions.
The stronger the Intuitive the worse the Sensory ability. I rode with a woman who paid utterly no attention to her sensory environment. At every stop light, she had to wait for the person behind her to honk the horn when the light turned green; when changing lanes, she did not check her mirrors but found out it was wrong to change lanes when someone in the lane she wanted, you guessed it, honked angrily at her sensorally naive reckless driving habits.
The language of intuition, on the other hand, is not the delicate hint, but the more-or-less obscure metaphor. Some metaphors are more obvious than others, and understanding it often depends on the education level of the listener/reader. A co-worker of mine had an intuitard moment when I told him I was glad to get that albatross off of my neck. He's an Se-dom, the type perhaps the most prone to intuitard moments as their minds relate directly to the physical world, whereas the Si-dom relates to it only indirectly via concretistic subjective impressions.
The stronger the Intuitive the worse the Sensory ability. I rode with a woman who paid utterly no attention to her sensory environment. At every stop light, she had to wait for the person behind her to honk the horn when the light turned green; when changing lanes, she did not check her mirrors but found out it was wrong to change lanes when someone in the lane she wanted, you guessed it, honked angrily at her sensorally naive reckless driving habits.
Wasn't expecting that reaction from the OP. Oh well.
