Caring for Your Introvert
15th May 2010
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate? Who growls or scowls or grunts or winces when accosted with pleasantries by people who are just trying to be nice?
I don’t, but my friends do.
If so, do you tell this person he is “too serious,” or ask if he is okay? Regard him as aloof, arrogant, rude? Redouble your efforts to draw him out?
Or perhaps just leave him the hell alone? (Nah, can’t have that.)
“It is very difficult for an extrovert to understand an introvert,” write the education experts Jill D. Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig.
That’s because extroverts are a bunch of clueless assholes. Just sayin’.
May 15th, 2010 at 03:34
“That’s because extroverts are a bunch of clueless assholes. Just sayin’.”
Settle down there – or the party’ll be at your house.
May 15th, 2010 at 07:43
That’s fine – I’ve got a shotgun and I’m not afraid to use it.
May 18th, 2010 at 18:17
I protest! Not all extroverts are “clueless assholes.” I rarely drag you to parties, and then only when they are Very Important to me. I normally leave you alone except for 3-4 times per year.