Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24.93.195.246-20141027020600/@comment-64.233.172.180-20160126022230

ChishioKunrin wrote: Thunderbringerstormbrook wrote: Introverts can also be extremely social people and very effective but they are focused on their skill rather then the conversation. Introversion also gives people an advantage because if mastered people know when to be at a function and also when to leave. Yeah, we can be social, but being social tends to drain a lot of energy from us, and we need to spend a bunch of alone time to recharge.

We're like cats, basically.

A cat can be interested in interacting with someone, but after a little while, they're tired of it and want you to leave them the hell alone.

And we can be satisfied with just sitting in the same room with someone, even if one person is watching TV and the other is on their laptop or something. Hanging out like that is just fine.

Realy good analogy kurin. I've always explained my introversion by comparing it to exercise. For me, socializing is like jogging. It's good for me, I can enjoy it, but it tires me out over time and I need to rest aftwords. There where a few times coming home from a long week of school where I suffered really bad headaches on the bus ride home (didn't help that I was the last one to get off).

What realy sucked when I was little was that my sister was an extrovert to such an extent that I started to think she was secretly afraid to be alone. Granted every human being needs some level of social interaction to stay sane (note "cast away" movie for an example), but my sister sometimes seemed to need social interaction almost as much as she needed to breath. Unlucky for me that was back before even the average teenager had a cellphone and no one had yet to hear of facebook or myspace (and now I feel the need to point out that I'm a twenty-something born in the 1990's and not a middle aged man). So if neither my mom or dad was available to entertain or distract her, my sister woukd most likely be pestering me because as an extrovert she needed social interaction, and it would really grate on my nerves because I need time alone to myself. It caused a lot of friction at times because we both where taught the golden rule of treat others how you wanted to be treated, but couldn't understand that the other was actually trying to follow it. She thought it meant constantly trying to be there for others, I thought it meant being there for others to offer the help they need then giving them a respectfull amount off space.

Maybe the reason we introverts get bad stereotypes in the first place is that extroverts being extroverts will grated on nerves and where us out even when there trying to be nice, while we only get agitated and have it effect our judgement in extreme cases.

-Defcon Deceiver