The Geography of the Room

Re:The Geography of the Room by Causality1 on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:53AM (#19645913)

"But I can’t imagine that someone surrounded by people of a similar age and of a similar background would prefer zero interaction to at least some interaction."

This author's a damn fool who hasn't taken the slightest effort to understand introverts on any level deeper than "how do I get the quiet people to fuel my need for constant social stimulation?"

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Re:The Geography of the Room by NikolaNovak on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:03PM (#19646717)

My friends and co-workers believe and see me as a highly outgoing, social, talkative person.

Nevertheless, I'm an introvert at heart and can easily volunteer to help people understand and imagine what it's like to be a person surrounded by strangers of similar age & background and strognly prefer / find it easier to have zero interaction.

Hint: "Strangers" is the weighted keyword, not "similar background/age". [Heck, "Similar age" has, for most of my life, been a negative attribute - Until late thirties I tended to socialize better with people slightly or significantly older]

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