Thu, Mar-14-19, 10:34
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Senior Member
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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Originally Posted by cotonpal
I guess I am about to continue beating this topic to death but what I want to add is that I think people who get energized through social interaction have a hard time understanding that some of us find it mostly enervating. I enjoy my brief interactions with neighbors and other who I run into on my walks. Large social event with lots of obligatory chit chat I dislike intensely.
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I think it makes perfect sense that people just have different tendencies. There are advantages to having different types of people. Even some apparent disadvantages--like near-sightedness, for instance--can also be advantageous. I used to be in the engraving business, making various plates for foil stamping and embossing greeting cards etc. For fine work my Dad needed a lens for, I just took off my glasses. There's a story, maybe apocryphal, but probably some truth to, that Eric Clapton pretty much locked himself in his room for a year and came out a guitar god...
Even going beyond introverts to true social phobics and downright paranoid schizo-spectrum types like me there might be advantages for survival, sometimes the people around you really do suck, and phobia is the appropriate response.
I just think that just as sometimes anorexics will show up on a diet forum looking for support, sometimes social phobics will take the introvert ball and sort of run with it. I think I'd sort of draw the line between I'd rather be in my kitchen alone and I'm scared to be in the kitchen if somebody else is in there.
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