Early childhood and type

[caffron]

I'm a very strong N, and I've always wondered what could make someone have such a strong preference, especially since I'm an XNXP and two of my preferences are really strong while the other are borderline. I've run into something anecdotally for N's, and I wanted to use you guys for informal data gathering in a less-than-scientific survey

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[agirlnamedlucky]

I'm an ENFP and had bad eyesight as a child. I'm not sure what effect that had on my personality type though - although I guess the fact that it made me quite bad at sports (I didn't get glasses until I was 10) made it harder for me to make friends and thus led me to spend more time reading etc - which is why I was probably in many ways an INFP for a long time.

It took me until my teens to become more visably ENFP (although I always had the ENFP imagination, sense of fun, and crazy plans) and until I was about 20 for it to be fully realised.

[saeble]

there will always be a battle between nuture and nature, what you're proposing is quite possible but trying to ascertain which is nature and which is nurture is next to impossible to guage.

Having said that, yours is a fairly extreme case, you're high intelligence, (which I would imagine would add to the process) and the absense of 'quality' input to your brain would lend itself to the formation of a very abstact mind. While I don't infer Dr Hawkings level of disability I do believe that there is a reasonable comparison. It would be interesting to know what type Dr Hawking is. With his level of very abstract complex thinking I do believe you have struck upon an interesting concept.

I still maintain that we are born with wiring pre-disposing us to certain types of thinking. Experience may well provide stimulus contrary to this hard wiring and our brains adapt, but I maintain that operating in a way contrary to our hardwiring is never going to result in full use of our potential.

N preference

[stareotype]

I am also a strong N (78%) but I did not have problems sensing as a child, except that it bothered me when both my parents smoked cigarettes and I cryed all the time as a baby. To me the most significant factor in childhood for the development of N over S is if the child prefers an imaginary world to the real one she is experiencing. This will lead to a more developed imagination.