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Anybody here find out they're an introvert?

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Ever since I was a kid, I really didn't like hanging out with a lot of people. I liked it when it was just one on one or maybe 3 or 4 in a group. People always thought I was shy and I guess I thought that too.

Fast forward many years later and I'm still like that. I don't like to go out with drinks with co-workers and my friends keep on inviting me to go clubbing and partying. I hate that because it's so noisy, you can't hear anything anybody is saying, it's expensive, and there's not really any deep talk going. Everybody seems to be content talking about trivial things. It got so bad that my friends wanted to stage an "intervention" because they thought I was becoming an anti social sociopath! lol

I must admit I thought I was weird and thought I must have something like Aspergers but then I read this

Top 5 Things Every Extrovert Should Know About Introverts » The Definitive Self Improvement Blog - BrianKim.net

It fit me to a T! I was so relieved that I wasn't weird and that there wasn't anything wrong with me. That part about needing to recharge is SO ME. Made me realize that I'm just different and that it's OK that if you're not social 24/7, you're not some sort of deranged maniac who's goign to go on a killing spree.

Anybody else here an introvert?

It's friday night and I won't be out clubbing. I'll be hitting the gym squatting :winkfinger:
 
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I'm introverted, anti-social and it is getting worse. I know maybe 10 people who I give a fuck to ever to see again, and to hell with everybody else. I wish I could turn off my sex drive, then I would rarely ever have to leave the house. Either that, or get rich so I could order whores to come over and suck me off 3 times a week. That would be paradise.
 
Oh and I forgot to add that I'm definitely anti social:winkfinger:
 
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^^rep me nigga
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oh shit i didnt know that shit had a name! im definitely one.
no bars clubs, i dont dance rarely drink and i dont operate well around groups, i work my magick one on one with girls
 
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Been a "smug, arrogant, too good to talk to lesser beings, loner, asshole" aka Introvert my whole life. My mom has all these stories of when I was 1, 2, 3 years old and while other kids were running around playing I'd be sitting by myself deep in concentration building with blocks or drawing; she'd wake up at like 3 in the morning and see my light on in my bedroom and I would be laying on the floor drawing with crayons, or acting out totally made-up scenes with my Starwars toys. How I turned the light on baffled her, so one night she stayed up until she heard me get up and watched me go into the kitchen, slide a chair to the kitchen drawer, grab a ruler, walk to my bedroom and turn on the light with the ruler that was when I was 2 & 3 years old. It wasn't until I was 6 and had failed kindergarten that they found out I was different for a reason, that reason being dyslexia, my brain is wired completely different from most people. When most people are zigging, I'm not zagging no I'm climbing up and over or tunneling under or turning around to try another path or just stopping in place to analyze... Most dyslexics are severe introverts...

Yeah I can't get into small talk, in fact it irritates me when I sit around and hear people yapping about nothing. I also ways sit back and zone out and the conversation turns to gibberish as I recede into my thoughts, then I might catch the spark of someone talking about something that interests me, a spark that lights up the dimmed for mood recesses of my mind where I like to sit and ponder and I perk up and spill forth some profound statement that makes the strangers go, "Holy shit he does talk and he's intelligent too." and my friends will say, "that's him he will say noting all night and then blow your mind with a few sentences, then wander off..." I get that a lot...
 
heavyiron said:
I'm introverted and my wife is an extrovert.
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My sitution is exactly the same. She thrives on social activities and being around others. Last night we went out to dinner with a number of other couples and then onto a comedy club. She was having a great time so I hung in there, but when we got home she seemed energized by the experience, while I was fairly exhausted and ready for a bit of peace and quiet.
 
MDR said:
My sitution is exactly the same. She thrives on social activities and being around others. Last night we went out to dinner with a number of other couples and then onto a comedy club. She was having a great time so I hung in there, but when we got home she seemed energized by the experience, while I was fairly exhausted and ready for a bit of peace and quiet.
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Yup, dating was easy. Just listened to her all the time.

She studied personalities so she had me figured out in a couple of dates. Her dad is a strong introvert. We fit perfectly.
 
I've been reprimanded twice now at work for how little I socialise with my co-workers. You'd think they'd view this as a positive attribute, but people are all chicken shit little insecure worry warts who think others who have little to say publicly must have something wrong with them. I had a previous boss arrange a meeting with myself and two other managers in the room. He said at the end of the meeting that "everything's gonna be just fine as long as you don't come in and shoot the place up." All just because I rarely talk to co-workers.
Small talk is abrasive and contrived, and it tends to only serve to put at ease the most timid and socially insecure.
 
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I'm an introvert as well and the wife is the extrovert, and go figure, I'm in sales of all things. But I do well, cause Introverts tend to listen to the customer more instead of dominating the conversation. I get bored easily with small talk and lose interest. I have a narcissist customer who drives me up the wall. The guy is an asshole and yet I put up with his sick ass cause he's my biggest customer. He often leads me into boring conversation about nothing.....GRRRrrrrr!!!
 
I too would call myself an introvert. Be careful not to use it as a frequent excuse for avoiding others. Social anxiety isn't the same thing IMO. You may be more prone to it compare to others though.
 
Occasionally, I like to go out and be with people, other times, I wan't to tell everyone to fuck off.

Not really sure where I stand on this one. Maybe I'm a Psychotrovert lol
 
withoutrulers said:
I've been reprimanded twice now at work for how little I socialise with my co-workers. You'd think they'd view this as a positive attribute, but people are all chicken shit little insecure worry warts who think others who have little to say publicly must have something wrong with them. I had a previous boss arrange a meeting with myself and two other managers in the room. He said at the end of the meeting that "everything's gonna be just fine as long as you don't come in and shoot the place up." All just because I rarely talk to co-workers.
Small talk is abrasive and contrived, and it tends to only serve to put at ease the most timid and socially insecure.
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Many fortune 500 companies are now using the Myers Briggs Temperament Indicator to place employees. Sounds like your employer is ignorant of utilizing employee strengths.
 
I can go either way but since leaving the corporate world a good decade ago it's getting easier and easier to keep to myself especially since a lot of my work I can do at home.
 
Do you guys like staying up late at night while everyone else is down for the count, so that you can thrive in the solitude and silence? If I can't do it a few times a week I feel incomplete....
 
fufu said:
I too would call myself an introvert. Be careful not to use it as a frequent excuse for avoiding others. Social anxiety isn't the same thing IMO. You may be more prone to it compare to others though.
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I think this is true in some cases. Being intorverted and having social anxiety can go together. I know for myself that I find some social situations to be more work than fun. I've always had a tendency to have a few very close friends, and I enjoy spending the most time with them or on my own. Fortunately for me, one of those very close friends is my wife. Interesting topic.
 
maniclion said:
Do you guys like staying up late at night while everyone else is down for the count, so that you can thrive in the solitude and silence? If I can't do it a few times a week I feel incomplete....
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at least half the day of the week i'm going to sleep when the gf is getting up to go to work. always been a night owl, never needed much sleep. the dogs are chilled, I open up all the doors to the back deck and there is just a slit amount of road noise that comes in.

was the same way in boot camp and A school, I would always take the mid watch, etc.
 
fufu said:
I too would call myself an introvert. Be careful not to use it as a frequent excuse for avoiding others. Social anxiety isn't the same thing IMO. You may be more prone to it compare to others though.
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The funny thing is that I have become more anti-social while at the same my social anxiety has almost completely gone away. When I stopped caring what people thought about me, I lost the desire to be around them at all. Also, people seem to gravity towards me more than before. It is ironic that the more I hate people, the more they like me which just adds to why I hate them in the first place.
 
MDR said:
I think this is true in some cases. Being intorverted and having social anxiety can go together. I know for myself that I find some social situations to be more work than fun. I've always had a tendency to have a few very close friends, and I enjoy spending the most time with them or on my own. Fortunately for me, one of those very close friends is my wife. Interesting topic.
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I used to have social anxiety, nothing too crazy though. Now not so much. I just get pissed off/apathetic more than anxious. I find very little people have anything real to say. Going through the same mindless formalities is maddening. My response that is to be original and creative with conversations. Most people are like a deer in headlights though. They'll either ignore anything that requires them to think, or just call you weird.

Every now and again I'll talk to someone who actually engages in a thoughtful conversation, but most of the time people aren't worth the time. Sad but true, in my experience.
 
KelJu said:
The funny thing is that I have become more anti-social while at the same my social anxiety has almost completely gone away. When I stopped caring what people thought about me, I lost the desire to be around them at all. Also, people seem to gravity towards me more than before. It is ironic that the more I hate people, the more they like me which just adds to why I hate them in the first place.
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:lol:
 
KelJu said:
The funny thing is that I have become more anti-social while at the same my social anxiety has almost completely gone away. When I stopped caring what people thought about me, I lost the desire to be around them at all. Also, people seem to gravity towards me more than before. It is ironic that the more I hate people, the more they like me which just adds to why I hate them in the first place.
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Same here nigga, I just don;'t get it chicks and other people do this when i go out..I think they want to save or whatever me.Not sure..:coffee:
 
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