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ToSisPoS
How to be more social: trib
everythingzed
Extroverted? Here’s a few tricks to keep you from being so frikking needy and all up in peoples space.
swofromtherock
The problem is the list would just be 11 different ways to say stfu and let someone else think/speak.
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Or, the best cozy sweater, blanket, tea combo for your rainy day book read that introverts will love
ThisGuyPostingThings
The group that was told throughout childhood to shut the fuck up? No, they never get told to be quiet & reflective. (I'm not an extrovert)
SomeDetroitGuy
Extraverted people get told to shut up ALL THE FUCKING TIME on a constant, daily basis. They don't need articles on it because it is constantly happening every single fucking day multiple times a day.
Shaodyn
Introverts typically do know how to be social. I've never understood why we have this image of them as ignorant caterpillars wanting to come out of their cocoons and being social butterflies but not knowing how.
RooGryphon
Because the others make it about themselves or half the time the topic is of mo interest to me when im in a large group
SomeDetroitGuy
Lots of people with severe social anxiety think that severe social anxiety is introversion.
Eyeetsass
Why would anyone assume an introvert would want to be more social? Everything I know about society is against my will.
TheDreadDruid
Extroverted?!?! In THIS economy!?!?
MoxieMonster
They are the same group who used the craze of being mindful as some superpower they never had.
Agreement2agree
If you think it can't be transformative, you probably don't understand what mindfulness is.
robingal1
I used to be extroverted. In these last years, I thought I was aging into introvertion. Nope! I'm just too poor to do shit.
veronicablood
extroverted and funny? Here's how to survive all the sex you're having...
DamnedIfYouDo
It's funny: I can be quite social and would never say I'm an introvert, but last night after a get together, I said to my wife "...why is it so hard for [person A] or [person B] to just let a moment of silence happen?!? Why do they seem to need to CONSTANTLY talk?!!".
Debadguy
Extroverts and introverts don't exist. I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
I don't care how many dislikes I get. Pop-psych is a plague on our society. Too many people are self-diagnosising themselves and others.
Samantha4u
A little from A and B, people self diagnosing is absolutely an issue- but some people are just naturally more outgoing than others. People feel the need to want to 'label' stuff.
EmeRgencyDrD
This is exactly what an extrovert would say.
Debadguy
I love you, but don't buy into the bs! I've been told that I'm an introvert, an extrovert, an ambivert, and an omnivert. All from people who don't have a therapy license.
My two cents are this, people display behaviors at different times with different people. They don't souly embody a definition just to make themselves better understood. Labels like these actually reduces someone and causes frustration when they don't fit into that perfect package!
whiskycanuck
Extroverted? Have you tried shutting the fuck up?
pareidoliaperson
Better. Some coworkers ffs where's the fucking off button on thus fucko. And all he talks about is garbage.
creegro
extroverts- 5 tips on how to not absorb everyone else's energy
wheresthetone
Bring back the inside voice. Maybe some mild shame too.
GigiDundas
Extroverted? Here's 10 tips on how and when to mind your own fucking business.
AbeFromanSausageKingOfChicago
They have not.
Xique
This actually made me chuckle. I had this exact conversation with my wife aboute our friend.
ColleenMarie
I have! And I can. For like 2 hours. But then the pressure to tell that funny story build up, and I just can't hold it in any longer!
whiskycanuck
And then it just bursts out of you?
IHaveGreatKittenRecipes
I'm an extroverted introvert (I love chatting but fuuuuck me is it tiring and I have zero self control) and my coworker is an introverted extrovert (hates small talk but really really wants to parallel play at all times because he gets lonely af) so now at work we are apparently a single entity and our other coworkers refer to us as if we're one person.
ThailandExpress
Samantha4u
This feels like half the comment section here LMAO. VERY miserable people. (The speaking one, I should specify.)
pookieeatworld
Everyone in the world, especially introverts, should read the book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking" by Susan Cain (2012). It contained a section that talked about how, counterintuitively, outgoing infants and toddlers usually end up as introverts and withdrawn toddlers and infants usually end up as extroverts.
dobbythehouseelf
Okay I'm feeling very attacked right now
Kmpapples
Ey my introverted extroverts, how ya doing my lads!?
SignedEpsteinsMother
Tired
ChazzK
I'm an extroverted introvert: I'm super mega the life of the party for like 15 minutes and then need to vanish from society for a week to recharge.
Kmpapples
That sounds like a hell of a 15 minutes!
adamlstf9
Pretty sure most of us are “okay” at best these days.
Talbotous
And "okay" really just means that im not but i dont want to discuss it cuz why bother.
adamlstf9
It’s not like you who I’m talking to has the power to change the unbelievable circumstances that have conspired together to create a modern living hell in which we all exist. So yeah, I’m “okay.” “Just a little tired.”
Kmpapples
For myself I take a muted *yay" as a success
LeoGrun19401
Extroverts aren't the people reading those clickbait articles. Also introvert/extrovert isn't even true, anyway.
eventide215
Introvert and extrovert are true but not in the ways people make it out to be.. introvert does not mean shy. It means you lose energy with social interaction. An extrovert isn't outgoing it just means they gain energy with social interaction. You can be a shy extrovert for instance.
Lutki
For some people social interactions and acceptance is foundational to their sense of self, like to the point of being a biological need. While others it isn't so important, but studies show that long term isolation is one of the most psychologically damaging things you can do to a person or yourself.
anjeleyezjr
Being around people was the largest cause of my mental health issues. Since pretty much cutting of contact with most of the outside direct contact, I have seen a noteable improvement.
eventide215
As is the case with most things in life, it's a balance that needs to be struck. The issue is everyone's balance is different. I don't need a lot of friends like some people do. Finding what your balance is will show noticable improvement in mental health.
cuddleskunk
Society is more accepting of introversion than ever before. Almost everything you need can be had online...and self-checkout exists for what you need to be in-person to buy. People spending all day inside streaming old shows or movies is just a day-to-day thing now too. This article is 6 years old...which in the current landscape of social interaction might as well be 20 years ago.
B99Reactions
that's not really "society is more accepting of introversion" though, that's, "capitalism+tech=we want you to consume every single second of every day as efficiently as possible"
cuddleskunk
It doesn't matter what the intent was...it matters what the consequences are.
cuddleskunk
And to be frank...everyone being able to be solo all the time is probably part of the reason we have so much division and hatred...if you don't actually have to interact with people, then you don't know people.
Fanner50
We’ve interacted with people and decided we didn’t want to know them.
cuddleskunk
That's great in theory, but we are in an era of nearly full isolation. Is the world better for it? You don't have to go to parties, arcades, or expos...but having a couple people in your life that aren't immediate family is something that helps keep people connected.
pwnedbill
I don’t know the name of a single neighbor in my neighborhood. It’s like living in a ghost town most of the time only ever seeing people grabbing Amazon packages or leaving in their vehicle. I’m not a people person but never interacting with anyone ever is one of the worst things to happen to humanity.
Fanner50
“Helps keep people connected”
Nice bumper sticker, but you have not given a reason that’s needed.
cuddleskunk
Look at the average politics of cities and rural areas. People who have to interact with other people are more likely to be in favor of programs that provide support for community.