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By: Social Choreography/The Mark of Cain | Neurodiversity

Social Choreography/The Mark of Cain | Neurodiversity — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:12:49 +0000

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By: Aditya

Aditya — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:33:19 +0000

Hey this is Adi. I have been reading a lot of your posts and like this blog a lot and I am posting for the first time.

I have a question that has been bugging me since I first started reading some of your posts. Before that let me clarify that I am your fellow intorvert as well. What I want to ask is, I still don’t understand a purpose of life that doesn’t involve social success and achieving a position in society. Because, the way I have been growing up, a lot of things that you have mentioned are extrovert traits are, the ones I have possessed too in spite of being an introvert. And yes, the way you have stated earlier, I too have wished that I was a person who is sought after by people, can make social bonds easily. But it hasn’t happened and then after realizing my true selves, I have started accepting myself. But still, I do not understand the purpose of life if you remain completely detached and aloof from society. Can you explain what are you living this life for? One example could be living for a very crazy passion if you do possess one. But what if you don’t?

By: unclegluon

unclegluon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:49:59 +0000

You have to be dramatic, you have to memorable to live in the world as an extrovert. You have to steal the scene from everyone else who’s trying to make one. If I had to make a horror movie for extroverts, the main character would engage in jolly conversations with a whole room of people at a party and find out later they don’t even remember his or her name. The only problem is that this probably happens too often in real life. As we see with advertising, all product promotion looks alike once we’ve gotten the general idea.

By: chobochobo

chobochobo — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:58:36 +0000

Do you also find most people over-dramatic and tiresome? Because I really find them annoying, they give me headache (The Extroverted One).

By: unclegluon

unclegluon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:41:23 +0000

I don’t consider myself shy. I just don’t thrive on a constant diet of social interaction with numerous strangers. I don’t enjoy small talk that much(I can look out the window and see the weather for myself.) I don’t much like conversation with more than one person at a time or in a crowded room with lots of people talking at once.

Maybe you ask if I’m shy because you wonder if I was visibly cringing away every time someone tried to talk to me? The point of the article is that people always know an outsider on some level even when the signs aren’t obvious, no matter where you go.

By: Erkki

Erkki — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:21:57 +0000

Pardon if this question is too intrusive, but in addition to introversion, are you also shy? Just curious.

I consider myself as an introvert, but then I don’t know, I might as well be an ambivert or a shy extrovert. Nonetheless, I’ve had extrovert friends who I think are some of the most wonderful persons that I know. Or are they just ambiverts?