Imagine you've turned up to a party and it's full of #extroverts and they're having a great time. But everyone is kind of talking over the top of everyone else, and not really listening to each other.

#Introverts hate these kinds of parties. I've never felt more lonely than in a room full of people I can't talk to.

Many social media spaces feel like this for me. But even worse is when you know people in the room, and they still don't wanna say hello let alone listen to your thoughts.

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Happens quite a lot and the expectation that this can happen tends to deter me from asking in the first place (well done, #extroverts ...)

There is a guy calling himself @nezkovsou@twitter.com. I like his art. But while understanding #introverts quite good. I suddenly got an opinion about how he understands #extroverts.

Funny. Anyway.
Since having thought about this stuff my overall moot improved by ALOT. Maybe 'hope' is the best medicine. But I also decided that I want to try that out.

Enjoying beeing extrovert instead of hating myself for not shutting up? Sounds plain simple.

I got myself an #masterthesis in order to finish that one.

@dancinyogi Susan Cain (I believe drawing on the research literature, but it’s been years since I’ve read ‘Quiet’) calls those in the middle “ambiverts.”

(I also liked her book because it did a good job distinguishing introversion/extroversion from things like shyness or people skills. There are shy #extroverts, as well as #introverts like me—people whose people skills are fine, good enough to be a major professional asset, but who find deploying those skills quite draining.)