I really felt this almost sense of justice when extroverts were forced to quarantine and were getting cabin fever after like 3 days.
Explaining to them that the discomfort they felt is what I felt every single day I had to go out into their world with all their eyes always looking at my face and making noises at me.
See this is why I miss COVID. It was the perfect excuse to stay at home and do nothing, and when I did have to go out, the roads were clear and hardly anyone was around.
Pisses me off so much that the extroverts had to ruin everything by bitching and moaning until government officials around the world caved and ended lockdown early.
Bunch of selfish cunts. Literally got people killed over their strange desire to socialize. It’s beyond infuriating.
It is. And also how nature was really rapidly healing just because we reduced the number of people commuting by combustion engine… and then we just went back to how things were?? Like we didn’t even want to try and learn from it.
COVID was a historic inflection point in so many many ways, and I fear that we’ve completely wasted it.
Leaving this comment feels extroverted, I hate it.
Amen to that
Or when they demand the introvert start talking but they complain that s/he won’t shut up and talks too much.
“Hey, aren’t you into (special interest)? Tell us about that”
…
“No, not like that”
I have even been threatened with termination at work for that. I simply cannot make small talk at work and more than half of the department are tongue wagging gossips that I cannot interact with at all beyond the barebones job requirements. My supervisor sees this as anti teamwork
Yeah, work makes us cone in twice a week to “interact with our peers”, but I work with people on different continents let’s do I’m not interacting with them either way. Anyhow, I got yelled at for not eating lunch with “the group” when I just needed some downtime
Even using zoom isn’t any less hectic when you’re juggling multiple tasks with multiple people on multiple time zones
I was looking for fun activities that I might enjoy alone. So I Google “activities an introvert can enjoy alone” and all the results were things like “how to not be an introvert, how to come out of your shell, how to enjoy extrovert activities as an introvert”
Like wtf? Stop trying to change and “fix“ me. I don’t want to be an extrovert, im sick of people treating introverts as broken
Totally agree! You do you, you shouldn’t have to change that. Username is great btw
Feeling like people who are very talkative and/or loud do often get in trouble for that as well. People with a lack of self-awareness of one’s own volume and monologuing about things of interest can mean the same people who typically are on the receiving end of trying to be “pulled out of their shell” are also sometimes the people who get told to be quiet.
I’ve definitely been told to stop talking my entire life so idk about this
one of my favorite things is the meta text that calvin is imaginative and quick witted like his dad and empathetic and creative like his mother. he’s ultimately allowed the amount of leeway he’s given because at his core he’s a good kid and they’re proud of him, so they let him express himself
something tells me that calvin was insufferable in his twenties. i grew up with the same kind of “support”, and i learned that you only get told the truth when you aren’t cute any more.
Why did you have to call me out like this?
sorry. hug your stuffie.
As a introvert, I do.
I call their loudness out. Tell them to fucking chill.
You can be introverted AND direct.
Being introvert is all the more incentive to be direct cause it allows you to talk less
Personally, I love chatty extroverts. They just talk at me and I get to sit there in silence and daydream. They don’t care if you’re listening.
Many cultures do. Maybe yours not enough to your needs or taste.
Gift them books, a microscope, minerals, a vintage computer… Maybe something will stick and make them more introverted. Or maybe they’ll see the gifts as an abstract validation of their ways and store them in the basement or the trash can.
