Intuiting Idiosyncrasies

As someone who prefers intuiting, I tend discover new things about my environment over time instead of right away.  For example, I’ve lived in our house for almost two years, but just recently realized that the light over the shower gradually brightens the longer it’s on.  I had always thought that my eyes were just fuzzy when I first woke up and that they adjusted better once I was in the shower.  It wasn’t until I happened to look up at the light and see it getting brighter that I finally figured out what was going on.

I like the cartoon I saw of an intuitive type who’s on his computer, smoke and flames are coming up from the roof, and he’s reading email that says “your house is on fire.”  Having sensing as an inferior function makes one prone to miss the obvious.

I was wondering if intuiting children tend to potty train later since they aren’t as in tune with their physical self.  That’s been my experience with my first two children, whom I suspect are intuiting types.  My oldest potty trained at 3.5 and learned to read shortly thereafter.  My middle child is three and is already reading (at least sight reading), but is just getting started potty training.  I’ve read that early readers are usually intuitives because of their penchant for the abstract–rather than just seeing literal letters, they get that they are symbols.