Caring for your Introvert

[liveonearth]

Found this article in The Atlantic because someone on my FL is a fellow introvert. It's a great read for all you party people out there, who don't understand how someone can be happier when left all by their lonesome.

Comments

[hausfrauatu.livejournal.com]

So how far are extroverts supposed to bend over backwards to accommodate introverts needs? What about their children? I understand that we all have different needs that aren't natural. Extroverts spend a lot of energy sitting down and shutting up. Sometimes it is impossible for an introvert to be left alone to the extent that they want to be.

I'm right in the middle. I'm a 'fake' extrovert.

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Ha. Funny pic. How far CAN you bend over backwards? To me the point is simply that not everybody is the same, and a wee little bit of sensitivity and allowing people to be different goes a long way.

As for being in the middle, in my 20's I fell in the middle. I have trended toward the introvert end steadily for the last 20 years. Perhaps I am becoming antisocial. I looked up psychopathy yesterday thinking that perhaps I was even one of those, but I'm not, because I have too much of a conscience.