#development levels

The biggest bullshit claim is how Te is associated with being an emotionless robot. If there is one thing I have learned about Te is that it cares a lot. And cannot hide where it stands and how the person feel about an issue. It's transparent, crystal clear and particularly vocal about anything it has an opinion about, which is many things usually. However, if they don't care about an issue or are indifferent, they can be cold hearted about it, since Te still deserves its reputation for being tactless and bold in how it expresses its points.

I wouldn't say that it made "more sense" when I got typed as NiTe instead of "NiFe" (/INFJ). It actually helped me sort out better the cognitive functions and redefine with better clarity. What made more sense is the concept of "development" levels, or integrated functions, that helped me seize myself better and enlarged my general comprehension of cognitive functioning. INTJ was my initial typing when I started delving into typology years ago, so I already had a mental conception of how functions were supposed to work within me. It switched back rapidly to that previous comprehension, with some adjustments.

For me, it was knowing I had Fi "integrated" in my consciousness that helped me understand a lot about myself, and it clarified why the INFJ label gave more justice to that aspect of myself than the INTJ one could. I don't want to go on for too long about this tho. I only wanted to highlight what really helped me to make more sense of myself. This notion could deserve a whole post of its own because of how fascinating it is, and well, complex in its own fashion.

In the end, I'd say xxTJs (specifically ExTJs) deserve their reputation for being real careless bulldozers sometimes, but their reputation for being robots is hilariously wrong. They really are the opposite of robots, even tho as I mentioned, when they don't give a fuck, they really don't and can be cruel, but they do care about lot of stuff and will get reactive and emotional for sure about those. Just learn to know what they care about and you'll get a fiery passionate inflamed essay that you really didn't ask for about it lol.

I would simply mention that SiTe and NiTe that don't have Te integrated are closer to being emotionless robot tbh, since Te is very passionate in itself. If it's not integrated nor much valued, it makes those types much more carefree or absorbed than a typical ISTJ/INTJ type is expected to be.

as a follow up question, i’ve been stuck on either NeFi or NeTi, because i’m having a hard time deciding which judging functions i use (my Ne keeps reframing actions to be either Fi or Fe)

the enneagram typology i gave you is mine, and i’m 99% sure it’s accurate. i understand that ENFP is more likely, though i can’t help but wonder, maybe some of the way i act can be explained with just my enneagram info, and not just by being a Te user (for instance my high reactivity explained by triple reactive instead of Te), do you have any idea how to decipher these judging functions in myself while taking enneagram into account? thanks again for your help

I'm afraid I won't be very useful on this one.

I've come to conclude it's barely impossible to determine your cognitive stack by self-analysis alone, for four major reasons.

1. We are not the best judge of ourselves - despite what people say (specifically revisers (xxxP) type with Fi, I'm all watching you with stabby eyes), since we get entitled by an ego perception of ourselves. This means that we are constantly biased due to our beliefs system (like, our enneatype fears, beliefs, etc., ironically enough) resulting in believing we are a certain way when we aren't. It doesn't always mean our perception is horribly wrong, but the degree of error doesn't need to be that big to create a mistyping.

2. Our ego can create an hyperfixation on a cognitive function that is not our lead process, which makes us think we are a certain type when we aren't, or over inflate it's importance. Or we could also strongly deny a certain function and believe it is lower because of that, when it's the auxiliary.

3. Definitions vary from a place to another and also almost from a person to another, giving inevitably a skewed perception cognitive function themselves. Add the self distortions from point 1 and you get an even more blurry portrait.

4. If I go by CT theory, that itself is flawed even if I believe it's still the best defined one yet, we apparently can have integrated functions from lower of our stack, which incredibly affect 1) Our thought process, personality and behaviors 2) Our perception of selves. This leads to accentuate the problems of every point I have said above and make it incredibly harder to determine the cognitive stacks.

With that said, despite all the points above, there are still psychological cues indicating which functions we do have and operate with. All of the following will starts from the assumption that you are correct on being a Pe lead/dom, specifically Ne lead, which I have no guarantee you are. Not because I don't trust you, but I have nothing assuring me either way.

Already, you're telling me your hesitation is because of the F functions, so I assume you are concerned by what is called "biotic" aspects. This means being more sensitive to the intrinsic nature of things (people, events, interaction, etc.), as in caring more about the life within "things" ; the conscientiousness, free will, "soul" of whatever you're dealing with. This information suggests me you are more likely NeFi over NeTi, since even if I account for the possible NeTi with Fe integrated, the auxiliary even when unconscious still taint from behind the approach to the tertiary. NeTi with Fe integrated have a twisted way of Fe compared to an Fe dom or aux, even tho I'd argue it's not as "twisted" as Tumblr community let it on by the past.

Often, what makes people think they have Fe over Fi is because they are concerned over the "social" atmosphere, express their feelings outwardly and are simply concerned by others overall. But those have nothing to do with Fe but more so emotional attitude (specifically seelie/adaptive ones). All of what I just mentioned has nothing to do with cognition anyway. The other reason is often they think they are high T because they are emotionally stunted, dismissive, express themselves bluntly and express more easily disgust, disapproval or anger, when again, this is more related to emotional attitude, but the Guarded ones (unseelie/directive) this time.

In the end, both NeFi and NeTi are quite similar, they simply have a slightly different approach to information, but they both are revisers of information by nature, spontaneous, tangent hoppers, and overall quirky, despite the dumb idioties running around on tert Fe on Dumblr.