RE: Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
August 31, 2015 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2015 at 11:40 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 31, 2015 at 10:55 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: People saying they're "extroverts" around close friends and family, are in fact introverts lol. That's part of what it means to be an introvert.
Not exactly. Introvert/extrovert is not a dichotomy, but a spectrum. Most people display characteristics of either at different times, depending on circumstances. The main reason people tend to think that you're either one or the other seems to be the continuing abuse of Meyers-Briggs test.
Personally - I tend to be withdrawn regardless of company, which I suppose puts me at the far "intro" side of the scale. The only times I turn extrovert is when I'm really, really drunk/high. And the pitiful outcomes of such situations lead me to believe, that avoiding social situations may be the "healthy" option in my case...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
