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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Disability and Cognitive Functions: The Tertiary Function and Loops

Your tertiary function is the function that you engage in when you are being childish or childlike. This function comforts the dominant function and is used to recharge it. It is how we are creative and playful at its best and how we are immature and derailing at its worst. The tertiary function is often used along with the auxiliary in order to back it up.

When your tertiary function kicks in, you feel like a new person. Depending on what your tertiary function is, it can assist you in either seeing things from other perspectives (perceiving) or considering other factors in your decision making (judging). Your tertiary function forces you to challenge deep-seated beliefs or adopt better systems. For example, the ESFJ has tertiary Ne that enables extrapolation off of what the ESFJ already knows from auxiliary Si.

Living with a disability can force cognitive function development. The tertiary function is one of those functions. Humor, a skill developed by many PwDs as a survival tactic, is the prime place to see the tertiary function at work. An INTP may make a satire on how applying for accommodations or benefits is unnecessarily complicated using dominant Ti to make the satire logically consistent and tertiary Si to incorporate their own experiences and the experiences of others with the faulty system. However, that is not the only use for the tertiary function.

As stated before, the tertiary function can be used to change one's modus operandi. For example, an INFJ may have a vision of what they see as best for everyone. However, tertiary Ti allows the INFJ to see that not everyone will benefit from it. The INFJ will proceed to adjust this vision to allow others to reject it while still maintaining the integrity of their original idea. The latter may not occur in a loop: overuse of the dominant and tertiary functions.

In a loop, the dominant and tertiary relay information to each other with little to no input from the auxiliary and inferior functions. Loops impede self-care and intrapersonal development by "blocking" these functions. A loop may render one exhausted or prevent reasoning as to what is realistic and aligns with one's values. Looping extroverted functions generates a fake energy and veneer of overcompensation while looping introverted functions promotes uncharacteristic callousness (Ti) or emotional irrationality (Fi).

Loops, at best, are precursors to and symptoms of neurological disorders. They are not disorders themselves, though. They can mimic anxiety and/or depression or be a symptom, but anxiety, depression, and other disorders are not loops themselves. Channeling an auxiliary or inferior function will allow the loop to "break"; with a disorder, there is usually no such luck.


8 comments:

  1. {Written in a reply to you on M's Blog!!}
    Anna....
    First.... Did you write this poem? Are these your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions? Second.... I absolutely agree with M!! You ARE NOT useless!! You're my Friend!! You're M's Friend!! You're Adelaide's Friend!! I could go on.... You are Beautifully Unique, fearfully and wonderfully made, God has plans for your Life, for your presence, for your future, for your past, even!! You're talented, you're smart, you possess abilities and gifts.... Just like everyone!! ;)
    This song lyric helps get me through whenever feelings and emotions of Self-Pity knock on my soul's door.... I am passing it onto you.... I could have this line tattooed on my body somewhere.... Ha!! ;-D
    Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself and turnin' his heart to stone.... --Lyrics to "Better Days", written by Bruce Springsteen
    "Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive", Raelyn
    PS. I am not, in any way, shape or form, shining off your Depression, Friend!! I'm just trying to send some encouragement your way!! ;)

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  2. Anna....
    I have not seen you around in four days--not here or anywhere--and I'm getting worried. Where are you?! I miss my Friend!! Come back!! ;)
    "Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive", Raelyn

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    1. I was wondering the same thing, where are you Anna my Friend!?!!!!?!?!!?

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    2. M....
      I have also checked out some Blogs which Anna frequents {like Love That Max, for example} hoping to read her comments.... Hoping to find a "sighting" of some sort as proof that she is alright. Nothing. "It is Summer...." I have rationalized with myself, "Maybe she's just busy like so many people are this time of year!!" But I cannot help it. I am really, really, really worried about Anna, especially after that depressing poem she posted on your Blog, especially since if.... If she did kill herself, we'd never know for certain. Anna would just disappear. We'd, of course, never forget her {and everything that she has done to impact our lives} but we would never know for sure what happened to her.... And that thought frightens me. Anna, where are you, Friend?!
      "Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive", Raelyn

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  3. Hi flutist pride!

    I'm a fellow artist as I love to dance/sing/act, but dancing is my passion. Is it the tertiary function that allows artists to feel joy when they are creating?

    P.S. I also played the flute in middle school...but that's another story:) Your blog title pricked my interest and I had just had to check it out.

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    1. MBTI has nothing to do with emotional responses; it is solely based on cognitive processes.

      And thank you for visiting!

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  4. Anna....
    Where are you?! I absolutely agree with M's Blog post message {one hundred percent} "you are awesome and are a beautiful person, talented and smart, and certainly not useless."!! You're Beautifully Unique!! You are fearfully and wonderfully made!! God has plans for your Life, for your presence, for your future, for your past, even!! You possess abilities and gifts.... Just like everyone!! I may sound like a broken record, as I'm constantly repeating this same-same message to you, but I do not care!! I am only expressing the TRUTH here, Friend!! ;)
    "Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive", Raelyn

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  5. Anna....
    Adelaide left us all--M, queerfemme97, me, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera--happy, encouraging, hopeful news through a reply that you have been away at Senior Session, making music and learning new things with your flute!! That is wonderful, Friend!! Come back to us from Senior Session when you have the time!! Please!! We miss you!! I do mean that!! ;)
    We take care of our own; We take care of our own; Wherever this flag's flown; We take care of our own --Lyrics to Bruce Springsteen's song, "We Take Care Of Our Own"
    "Stay hard, stay hungry, stay alive", Raelyn

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