[skogprinsessa]

My 13-year-old sister is extremely intelligent and uses speech in a very sophisticated way for her age, but seems to formulate sentences very slowly and takes a long time to organize her thoughts- she is overly meticulous about making sure she says everything EXACTLY the way she wants it to sound. Is there a certain type that exhibits this characteristic?

[Scruffy]

That is a huge part of the Ti function.

any of the TPs, and ITPs have it as their primary.

[OrangeAppled]

My INTJ cousin does that, as does my ISTJ uncle (his dad). I don't know if this is type related.... I could see this related to IxTx types.

I talk rather fast and it comes out: warble warble warble mumbo jumbo blaahhhh

[HannibalLecter]

I'm an INTJ and I don't know anybody who talks faster - or can listen to those as fast - as me.

[Linus]

INFJs have Ti as their tertiary.. wonder if that matters. I take a long time to think and process my thoughts before speaking. If I speak without thinking, my sentences are always broken into pieces and where one breaks, a new one starts..which breaks again eventually.. And my eyes are fluttering about wildly.

[MensSuperMateriam]

My 13-year-old sister is extremely intelligent and uses speech in a very sophisticated way for her age, but seems to formulate sentences very slowly and takes a long time to organize her thoughts- she is overly meticulous about making sure she says everything EXACTLY the way she wants it to sound. Is there a certain type that exhibits this characteristic?

Ti function. I'm INTP and I talk slowly, organized and meticulously for the same purpose, I want to say exactly what I have in my mind, and I want the listener understand exactly what I want to say. But this happens when I'm in reflexive mode (Ti), when I'm a bit euphoric (Ne) or under stress I can talk really fast, hard to understand.

[skogprinsessa]

That is a huge part of the Ti function.

any of the TPs, and ITPs have it as their primary.

Okay, that makes sense...cause I was thinking she might be an INTP!

[The Great One]

That is a huge part of the Ti function.

any of the TPs, and ITPs have it as their primary.

What the hell? You are an entp with an enneagram 3 with a 2 (helper) wing? WTF? I've never heard of that?

[Liminality]

A 3w2 ENTP is quite possible - Try extraverted 4 That's insanity.

I'm contantly criticised by my ISTJ dad and maternal, INT grandfather of muttering, mumbling, talking too fast, and not speaking 'one word at a time'. They value coherernce. I find speaking to them a little strange, because it feels like I'm speaking rather slowly.

My INTP philosophy teacher also tells me to 'slow down' from time to time.

[jbking]

Is this about having long pauses between responses or is she slow in pronouncing each word? I see this as a couple of different things where I have had each at times. In terms of having pauses I can relate to that as while I am an INTJ, it isn't that uncommon for me to want to find something great to say and it may take a little thinking and figuring to get there. Thus while someone may wonder what I'm doing, I am thinking internally and my thoughts aren't ready to be announced to the world yet.

On the other side, there are times where I will slowly say everything but this is usually with some intended effect. If I get anxious I will speed up my speech which can be a problem for some people as I really can go at quite the clip. Not as fast as the guy that did the "Micro Machines" TV ads years ago but fast enough that I can kill a conversation this way at times.