Count me in! When is our next meeting? Joke aside, I also don't like this binary distinction because I find myself on both sides of the scale. Reading the comments here makes me think that there's probably a lot of unnecessary tribalism (we vs them), confirmation bias and overgeneralization that makes discussing this topic harder than it already is.

People are different, but thinking you're both an extrovert and an introvert...means you're closer to neither.

Says who? You just made that up.

A person who gains energy from social situations and from being alone fits the technical definition of both introvert and extrovert. This is the rational consequence and deduction from the English definitions of the words introvert and extrovert.

The definition literally permits people to possess both qualities at the same time. Yet people choose to irrationally pursue this either/or mentality that both qualities exist on a single spectrum.

So logically what you said makes zero sense. That means your illogical. Being illogical and irrational is completely independent of introversion or extroversion.