Top Ten Myths About Introverts

[SpiralCycle]

i am sure there are a lot of introverts here. to check out the myths and see if they apply to you feel free to check the link below. it has helped me realize why people have a hard time understanding me sometimes and laughed when i read the list and wish i could put this on my shirt during family reunion's and get togethers cause my family is chalk full of extroverts. anyways hope you enjoy;

http://jerrybrito.org/post/6114304704/top-ten-myths-about-introverts

[cameronjcw]

wow that describes me to a tee!? makes complete sense to me. i have never fitted in anywhere and still dont and tbh am happy that way although it did take me a long time to realize it. i can join in groups although only for very short periods of time. i could be out with one person and although we could be in the middle of a music festivel i can pretty much just zone out from everything else around me. i have always been very comfortable with my own company, really cool link cant believe how much that makes sense to me!

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

mahahahaha,

i'm thinking i should've made that clear to people earlier. "hey you, shut up, i don't enjoy small talk and your hi and how are yous have no actual emotions behind them." you don't have to say "hi'' to me. i am having a nice day and you are having a nice day, so it's okay to walk by and notify each other of our presents with a slight change of face and go on with your nice individual days... gosh, i know we shouldn't categorize people or judge them for their individual roads, but come on! wanna be friendly, help and be helped. and we are not these introverts, we are just normal people living normal lives, its all the rest of them who are obviously creating negative distortions... :mad: but what do i know? if i know anything for that matter...

i made a joke one time that just became this natural thing that i do when i'm saying something outstandingly insane.

just do it in your heads, though... lol...
ask me if i am crazy.
yes i am.
regardless of your reaction i say: with any basic understanding of psychology you would know that a nut never admits he's gone haywire. crazies just don't come up to officials admitting to their insanity and asking for help. so if i say i am crazy i am completely sane.

love and light and love,
ra ma

[Dtris]

nice link. i fit most of the things listed and i agree that those misconceptions should be cleared.

another big misconception that needs cleared is just because someone talks about conspiracy theories does not necessarily mean that they believe that they are true.

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

nice link. i fit most of the things listed and i agree that those misconceptions should be cleared.

another big misconception that needs cleared is just because someone talks about conspiracy theories does not necessarily mean that they believe that they are true.

good point, people really need to understand what is being referred to as serious important information and what is being said for the sake of the flow of the conversation!

[MarkM]

hey liz!

how 'bout them blue jays? i went shopping today and steaks and tide were on for half price, and i spilled my coffee on my jeans... my drycleaner's ex wife has the oddest mole on her nose, and just can't stand lady gaga! i gagged on a pistachio changing the radio station yesterday and almost hit the car in front of me. my car is making the oddest noise, and my next door neighbours are at it again. ugh! the new guy in the office is the weirdest and loudest thing you ever saw, and can't even type. stupid computer, the tab won't work when i try to capitalise... i think the us economy is in for another nosedive. my patio umbrella is covered with bird poo, and my tomatos are still green, dammit!

honestly, 'introverts' often take great pains to engage in small talk, and do make an effort to listen and interact. i know this personally, and i figure that one mark of an introvert is that they will hear a comment and as is their nature, pause to contemplate on the comment, sagely considering from different angles; only to find that when they are ready to comment back, the topic has swiftly morphed into something irrelevant to the erstwhile comment. how do these motormouths do that?? :d

the 'introvert', who is no less craving human interaction and warmth than anyone else, practises gallantly, trying to be a part of the gathering of a-type personalities/cool kids, wondering how they can possibly compete with such a rushing of data... everyone knows soo much about sports, whatshisname and pop culture... it often comes over as a kaleidoscopic rush of impossibly fast moving conversation, and sometimes the 'introvert' will bravely interject... the a group look over quizzically, pause for a moment; recognizing that there has been a momentary pause in the momentum of the convo, kindly laugh obligingly and carom on with their convo.

as an 'introvert', i marvel at this ability to 'small talk', and as a kid despaired of being able to do this amazing feat; being one of the uncool kids... it wasn't until i eventually gravitated to a group of 'introverts' (musicians, actually) that i became actually cool!!

my mouth can only keep up with my stream of consciousness if i'm in the shower... alone, or in my car... alone. if i were to try to verbalize my stream of consciousness in public, they'd lock me in the roundhouse.

'introverts' can't be said to not care, or consider themselves 'above' these other modems of communication, they will often feel pretty conflicted and self conscious about it. but.. get an a type personality alone, i have found, show genuine interest and concern for them, and you'll sometimes find that they will assume the role of the sagely introvert, maybe if only for awhile. at this stage of my life, i have developed the ability to have no shortage of deep and edifying convos with all personality types... even if i really, really, have no vested interest in the blue jays, or their poo. ;) markish

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

dear mark,


hey liz!

how 'bout them blue jays? i went shopping today and steaks and tide were on for half price, and i spilled my coffee on my jeans... my drycleaner's ex wife has the oddest mole on her nose, and just can't stand lady gaga! i gagged on a pistachio changing the radio station yesterday and almost hit the car in front of me. my car is making the oddest noise, and my next door neighbours are at it again. ugh! the new guy in the office is the weirdest and loudest thing you ever saw, and can't even type. stupid computer, the tab won't work when i try to capitalise... i think the us economy is in for another nosedive. my patio umbrella is covered with bird poo, and my tomatos are still green, dammit!

### o yeah, so to make a point you tell the whole forum about your day, nicely played! :p


honestly, 'introverts' often take great pains to engage in small talk, and do make an effort to listen and interact. i know this personally, and i figure that one mark of an introvert is that they will hear a comment and as is their nature, pause to contemplate on the comment, sagely considering from different angles; only to find that when they are ready to comment back, the topic has swiftly morphed into something irrelevant to the erstwhile comment. how do these motormouths do that?? :d

#### haha< that's me... but sometimes i think i just wait too long to make a point and the conversation by that time is already going in a direction irrelevant to that point! lol


the 'introvert', who is no less craving human interaction and warmth than anyone else, practises gallantly, trying to be a part of the gathering of a-type personalities/cool kids, wondering how they can possibly compete with such a rushing of data... everyone knows soo much about sports, whatshisname and pop culture... it often comes over as a kaleidoscopic rush of impossibly fast moving conversation, and sometimes the 'introvert' will bravely interject... the a group look over quizzically, pause for a moment; recognizing that there has been a momentary pause in the momentum of the convo, kindly laugh obligingly and carom on with their convo.

### i crave human interactions with other "introverts" lol


as an 'introvert', i marvel at this ability to 'small talk', and as a kid despaired of being able to do this amazing feat; being one of the uncool kids... it wasn't until i eventually gravitated to a group of 'introverts' (musicians, actually) that i became actually cool!!

#### i had a dw type of teenage hood... so you can guess how and with what type of "introverts" i got involved with...


my mouth can only keep up with my stream of consciousness if i'm in the shower... alone, or in my car... alone. if i were to try to verbalize my stream of consciousness in public, they'd lock me in the roundhouse.

#### there is alone, then there is public, but there is also the closed circle of a few in which i am sure your verbalization of consciousness is well understood!


'introverts' can't be said to not care, or consider themselves 'above' these other modems of communication, they will often feel pretty conflicted and self conscious about it. but.. get an a type personality alone, i have found, show genuine interest and concern for them, and you'll sometimes find that they will assume the role of the sagely introvert, maybe if only for awhile. at this stage of my life, i have developed the ability to have no shortage of deep and edifying convos with all personality types... even if i really, really, have no vested interest in the blue jays, or their poo. markish

### i've always been a chameleon..... lol, take that for a conclusion! hehe

love,
liz

[MarkM]

jeez, liz, i can't even keep up with reading my own post! at least you seem to know what i'm talking about. bedazzled... what have i become??? ;) an introverted extrovert, methinks! i'm not kidding. billybob, help! mark

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

mark,
first of all, your inbox is full, can't send you msgs regarding your inability to keep an ongoing conversation with me! mha!

second of all, bill is not coming to help you... :) i think i've confused him as much as i have confused everybody on the forum, including you! lol

and thirdly, i think all humans be it intro or extra verted... are perverted. perversion can be seen on the smallest of scales... culture in itself is a perversion of the natural order... ha, kids watch shows where animals speak and act human, while having animal pets... always been one of my favorites as an example of human perversion! lol

what? i think after 300 something posts on this forum i am finally loosing my marbles! :)

love,
liz

[Dtris]

i find starting conversations with people i don't really know to be the hard part. once it is started i don't find it hard to keep up. it is just getting it moving that is the problem.

[SpiralCycle]

i almost wrote 2 or 3 things about introversion but i think the scorpio ascendant deep inside is saying no! :confused:

ha i feel like i have said so much the last week so maybe it is once again time to take a break.

do i even know what i am saying................ maybe? probably?

this introvert stuff seems takes in more than it pours out at times aggggggggghh! haha maybe introversion and emotions don't mix so well at times, cuz i feel wacky writing this :p

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

omg! i used to have a problem calling people i never spoke to before! hahahahahhaah ^^
i still kind of do, but i fight it! plus now that the internet is a preferred means of communication i feel much better ^^


i find starting conversations with people i don't really know to be the hard part. once it is started i don't find it hard to keep up. it is just getting it moving that is the problem.

[Seeker01]

yup .... that list describes alot of how i am. =)