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I don't think there is a middle ground. It's like a battery, either you re-charge from being around other people, or you discharge from being around people (and have to be alone to recharge).
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With flashes of spaz from time to time. - my wife's term for me.
modified 13-Aug-18 18:11pm.
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Please no more birthday parties for me 
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I've removed my birthday from every possible place. Told HR not to publish it. Enjoying the silence... 
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Very wise, finally you get your well deserved rest 
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Curious! In the US, privacy laws are such that (at least these days) HR would be in some bit trouble if they released anyone's birth date. That's very sensitive information, useful for Identity Theft, in particular - and embarrassing balloons and nauseating sheet cake, as well.
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Same! and we have so-called awkward birthday party quarterly ! DAMN!
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I'm sure it's not what you intended, but one option to avoid people giving your birthday parties is for them to give you a wake. As it is said, be careful what you ask for!
Party On !
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A wake-up call would be better 
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I hide being an introvert by being an extrovert.
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The same can be said of hiding your extrovertness by introverting into your interverted self, thus rendering your vert on the extro, invisible.
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I knew I shouldn't have posted that, drawing attention to myself.
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Oh, shyte. Now he's smiling at me, too.
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I wasn't going to answer but I needed to say "Me too".
Now you have two people watching you 
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I've never been able to work out which one I'm supposed to fit in. I love solitude (in many ways I'm quite reclusive) but I'm also the kind of person who will happily talk to anyone when I'm out and about.
I don't see any inherent contradiction in there unless I start to look at it in terms of introversion and extroversion. Am I an introverted extrovert, an extroverted introvert or someone who thinks that psychologists should cure themselves before inflicting their nonsense on the rest of us? On reflection, I'm inclined towards the latter.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Like solitude (or noise) is not an implication of introvertedness. Since you'll talk to anyone - even strangers - you're clearly extroverted. Not necessarily extremely so - you don't, for example, talk extra loud to make sure everyone is giving you attention . . . do you?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: you don't, for example, talk extra loud to make sure everyone is giving you attention . . . do you?
Absolutely not - and I'd strongly advocate the death penalty for those that do!
Never been convinced that they're genuinely useful as descriptive terms, though, as most people seem to have strong elements of both.
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That's not how introversion nor extroversion is defined.
Intro and extroversion is how you charge your inner battery; being alone, or with a crowd.
You can fine be both Introvert and outgoing; I am that, for instance.
It will drain your battery faster when your being outgoing, but there is nothing that says you can't be both Introvert and outgoing.
In short, I dont have a problem talking to strangers, but if I want to satisfy my introvert inner self, then the required energy to get me to know those people like I want to, is just too energy & time draining. But that doesn't mean I can't talk to new people.
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Pretty sure the definitions of intro and extroversion, are quite facts based.
But i get, that a lot confuses introversion with shyness, or being social incapable, but that's not what introversion is.
A big problem with intro and extroversion, is that the person itself, can only explain how they have it. People are quite good at putting up faces, and act their way through life, making all think they are quite the opposite of what they really are.
All tests have shown I'm in the border 90-100% introversion scale, yet, all people work with, guesses I'm extrovert. External perceiving is just not optimal to categorize people as intro or extro verts.
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Pretty sure the definitions of intro and extroversion, are quite facts based.
But i get, that a lot confuses introversion with shyness, or being social incapable, but that's not what introversion is.
A big problem with intro and extroversion, is that the person itself, can only explain how they have it. People are quite good at putting up faces, and act their way through life, making all think they are quite the opposite of what they really are.
All tests have shown I'm in the border 90-100% introversion scale, yet, all people work with, guesses I'm extrovert. External perceiving is just not optimal to categorize people as intro or extro verts.
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| Please review this link, from my former post: when I say a word it means - Google Search[^] More preciseley:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
However, as we are currently not in Wonderland (or at least, I'm not) - I have to defer to the actual definitions - not some convoluted interpretations. Fundamentally, if we make up definitions to suit ourselves we don't really have language at all.
The first two links of my previous post clearly defined the accepted meaning of the words.
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I recharge by sleeping so I guess that makes me an introvert, unless I am in a full bunkhouse. The dichotomy of the actual definitions of the two words leaves a descriptive void in the real spectrum of human personality. To say a person is one or the other is a shallow analysis akin to describing people as republican or democrat, it rarely paints an adequate picture. At best, it is a good first brush stroke.
What's your favorite color, black or white?
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