For instance: My young child is the extreme extrovert – not so much Loud but very needing of constant contact and imput from mom. I’m too busy filling her emotional needs to spend any time doing the sort of solitary things to which I’d like to devote myself. We can’t with good conscience neglect our extroverted kids’ needs, and so the introvert mom spends all available time and energy on the little ones. There’s precious little left over for being available to make friends with other introverts.

Perhaps we emerge after retirement and turn into those batty old ladies that do whatever they please and damn the social consequences? I’m rather looking forward to those days.

One thing that I’m very thankful for is that growing up I never felt the way so many others have, I never felt strange, different, or that there was something wrong with me, partly due to my parents being really nice and the fact that I have been home schooled all my life. I have never been in a school environment, though I did have the choice, and I find that I can actually socialize with fellow homeschoolers and enjoy it. I have attended many homeschooling “classes”, mostly creative writing, art, and literature, all subjects that I enjoy.

I’m also an introverted girl. My situation was, growing up i moved alot with my family and never established any deep relationships with people let alone “friends”. Overtime I think the lack of social life and only a handful of friends molded me into a very quiet reserved girl.

There IS a trade off though i think between extraverts and introverts. I find that introverts excel in ‘non-verbel’ aspect of life (writing, school work, creativity, art) while having lack of social life. We concentrate so much on improving our selves that sometimes intrigues extraverted people (so who’s a weirdo now huh? LOL!)

From my experience I do believe that introverts hold depth in the relationships, work, and thoughts they have in life. Sometimes though, i wish more extraverts (majority in this society) would come to understand us introverts and not judge us so harshly just becuae we are quiet.

Props for the blog entry.

Have a blessed day…

For me also, social interaction must have some substance or purpose to be worthwhile. What other call ‘socializing’ registers on my senses as just a bunch of spamming. Content is king.

Yes, I realized some time ago that reality is no more than a conception of the world that a majority of a group agree upon. Most people are oblivious of the true nature of a socially agreed upon ‘reality’ even as they diligently enforce its taboos.

Most people are incapable of deep critical thinking. It is pretty much how the average person stays sane in a mass agricultural society.
This is partly why their ancestors had many children while ours did not.
Thus, certain types of people with rare psychological profiles find themselves surrounded by aliens in this life. Aliens whose brains function on a totally different wavelength.

I agree with them on one thing. We do not live in the same world with them. Or at least we experience this world so differently it might as well be another.

Yeah, it does feel awesome to know you’re different from the masses! Imagine being totally extroverted..