This is a research-related question I've been thinking about for a while now -- it seems like a standard exercise in first-year analysis, but the solution eludes me.
Let $f:\mathbb{T}\to\mathbb{T}$ be any continuous, surjective, piecewise strictly monotone map from the unit circle to itself (not necessarily a homeomorphism or even a local homeomorphism). For a point $x\in\mathbb{T}$, define the full orbit of $x$ as
$[x]=\{y\in\mathbb{T} | \exists n,m\in\mathbb{N}: f^n(x)=f^m(y)\}$
Assume now that $x$ is eventually periodic (i.e. there are $p$ and $q$ such that $f^p(x)=f^q(x)$). It follows that any $y\in[x]$ is also eventually periodic. What if $y$ is not in $[x]$, but a limit point of $[x]$?
In general, such a limit point does not have to be eventually periodic (for instance, if $f$ is the standard tent map, any point has dense full orbit, but not all points of $\mathbb{T}$ are eventually periodic).
But what if I make the additional assumption that $x$ is isolated in $[x]$ (i.e. there is some neighbourhood $U$ of $x$ such that $[x]\cap U =\{x\}$)? Countless examples have led me to believe that any limit point of $[x]$ has to be eventually periodic in this case, but it seems difficult to prove...