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re: Introvert Quirks- what are yours?
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:44 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:44 pm to LSUTANGERINE
In addition to never answering the front door if I'm not expecting a visitor and going out of my way to avoid social gatherings that involve more than my small circle of close friends, I routinely wait inside until I can tell none of my neighbors are outside before I go check the mail.
Don't get me wrong, my neighbors are great and I get along well with all of them. It's just that two of them will talk you to death.
If one of them catches me by surprise, I'm trapped in my driveway for 15 minutes nodding my head and mumbling, "Mmm-hmm", over and over as my bald head broils in the sun.
Don't get me wrong, my neighbors are great and I get along well with all of them. It's just that two of them will talk you to death.
If one of them catches me by surprise, I'm trapped in my driveway for 15 minutes nodding my head and mumbling, "Mmm-hmm", over and over as my bald head broils in the sun.
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Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:44 pm to UptownJoeBrown
a shrink would need a shrink after trying to analyze the bunch of wackos on here
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:45 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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A lot of you sound like social rejects, nerds, dorks, dweebs, retards, and spazzes.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:45 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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A lot of you sound like social rejects, nerds, dorks, dweebs, retards, and spazzes
Most of what I have read here can be attributed to aging. As many of us age, we more realize the value of time. Why spend what precious time we have engaged in small talk with someone we do not care for? Especially when we may have had that same exact conversation a hundred times with a hundred different people.
Also, my friends circle is set after all these years. I and many other probably find it quite a waste to try new friends.
Most of this is not introvertedness. It is being ornery and by God, at this age, frick anyone who says I cannot be ornery.
This post was edited on 7/14/25 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:50 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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Example- a few years ago there was a conference in NOLA and a co-worker had asked me the day before if I would be able to give them a ride back from the conference to Baton Rouge. I made up some elaborate story that I was staying an extra night in NOLA to visit a relative. F that! Let me drive in peace. There’s only a very small number of people that I will share a ride with. I will say on the drive back that my head was on a swivel. Don’t know what I would’ve done and the person seen me driving back after the conference. Probably made up some other lie that the relative I stayed with had some sort of emergency.
this is beyond being an "introvert".
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:52 pm to JPLSU1981
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corded headphones and typically leave them in even though I’m actually not listening to anything. They’re actually not even plugged into anything it’s just the end of the cord in my pocket
Kamala?
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:54 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I don't like the lower classes being in the same room with me
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:55 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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Its just the process of interacting at a party completely drains me,
We call this having to be "on"
I don't really get this in normal social engagements, but definitely understand it for networking, conferences, etc.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:55 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Same. In fact, people who know me laugh when I refer to myself as introverted. But gatherings drain me and I actually prefer a lot of alone time. Sometimes after a busy work week I’m ok not interacting with another person until I get to work on Monday. I do enjoy socializing, but sometimes need to recharge and it’s alone time that recharges me.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 1:56 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I would not share a hotel room but, if a coworker needed a ride back to Baton Rouge from somewhere like New Orleans, I'd gladly do it.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:02 pm to 777Tiger
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shrink would need a shrink after trying to analyze the bunch of wackos on here
The shrink would say you’re an introvert and that’s not a diagnosis. Just like extraversion is not a diagnosis.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:02 pm to Ace Midnight
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I don't mind a little superficial small talk.
I'm the worst at ending a conversation. Run out of shite to say and it gets awkward.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:04 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I don’t like how I have to say good morning multiple times as people join virtual meetings.
I’m usually running meetings and will often awkwardly interrupt people to get the meeting started if the small talk doesn’t revolve around sports, fishing, bourbon, or one of the few things I enjoy talking about.
I’m terrible at small talk when I’m sober and masterful at it between drinks 5 to 10. Drinks 11+ the bell curve gets me and I’m awful at small talk again
I’m usually running meetings and will often awkwardly interrupt people to get the meeting started if the small talk doesn’t revolve around sports, fishing, bourbon, or one of the few things I enjoy talking about.
I’m terrible at small talk when I’m sober and masterful at it between drinks 5 to 10. Drinks 11+ the bell curve gets me and I’m awful at small talk again
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:05 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Most people aren’t true introverts and therefore wouldn’t understand.
There’s a special power that comes with being more than comfortable being in solitude.
Susan Cain’s book & TED talk was really eye opening for me. I was always called shy growing up, but realized as I got older that I wasn’t shy. I just didn’t feel the need to speak unless it was for a reason or purpose. Just mindlessly making conversation is torture for me.
There’s a special power that comes with being more than comfortable being in solitude.
Susan Cain’s book & TED talk was really eye opening for me. I was always called shy growing up, but realized as I got older that I wasn’t shy. I just didn’t feel the need to speak unless it was for a reason or purpose. Just mindlessly making conversation is torture for me.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:05 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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The shrink would say you’re an introvert and that’s not a diagnosis. Just like extraversion is not a diagnosis.
some of the traits being attributed to being an introvert on here are really traits of azzholio dysfunction
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:07 pm to whoa
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Most people aren’t true introverts and therefore wouldn’t understand.
This x 1000. Especially the extroverts. Lol
EDT: i’d much rather speak to an audience of 300to 500 then a small group of 10.
This post was edited on 7/14/25 at 2:11 pm
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:10 pm to whoa
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Most people aren’t true introverts and therefore wouldn’t understand
I would also say most aren't true extroverts. I have only met a handful of true extroverts. I can take an introvert much more than I can take an true extrovert.
Most of us are somewhere in the middle.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:11 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Like you have a job
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:12 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
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Competing noises (TV+phone video+music on, etc..) makes my head explode
Add the exhaust fan for the stove to that list.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:17 pm to LSUTANGERINE
I wear my sunglasses indoors and at night time. 
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