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How to Live with Introverts (PDF available!)
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Published: 2012-03-20 04:06:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1232872; Favourites: 14557; Downloads: 6322
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I thought a lot of folks out there could benefit from learning how to with introverted people.I drove my ex crazy by being introverted. He thought that I was being "distant" and "purposely ignoring him as part of a passive-aggressive power play". Here I was just enjoying his company without talking.
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Thanks!
The PDFs are broken because I had to update it a bunch and then it wouldn't upload because of a Mac to PC error and it was all just a big mess.
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This makes sense(i'm introverted), i like it
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...What can i say that nobody else has?
-Relatable
-True
-Beautiful
-Humanitarian
-A Bajillion common compliments
-Cute
-Funny
-Et cētera
Nope, i've run out.
Congratulations anyway!
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The Polish translation version had a Ninja404 error - This would be far better quality if it was saved as a PNG because that file format is best for several of the same color and a JPEG is best for when there's several ten-thousand colors up to and beyond the maximum for the sRGB color profile which is 256 × 256 ×256 = 16,777,216 colors. One example is an image I just had open in Photoshop CC and with "Save for Web" as a PNG 24 that was 87.83 KB and is lossless, but with the maximum for a JPEG it is 174.5 KB; However, an image that was originally a JPEG is 1.20 MB, but saved as a PNG it is 5.08 MB...
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These are so true. Glad that there are people who feel the same way as I do about myself.
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Well I guess my friend was right. Only, I'm worried that she's gonna keep being an introvert cause in my school, it's really hard to make friends, unless if they're boys or if you're a socialite and/or their friends. And as much as I don't understand her even if she's my best friend, this really help me alot to respect all introverts.
I hope this will make me talk less to her whenever she's uncomfortable, being a chatterbox myself XD
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As an introvert it was this strip (which an extrovert friend gave me) that made me realise why it was so tiring being around other people even though I liked it.
It did more than that though, it showed me why it what it meant to her when I did go out and do things with her, the things that made her energized. She might not say it, but she understood what it took out of me and I understood she wasn't just wanting to be around other people but needed it as much as I needed the quiet times together.
So thankyou Roman for a perfect visualisation for me of me, but also for helping me see what my extroverts need. This for me is my guide to how to live with extroverts and what I need to give to those (of that weird bunch 
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Stumbled into this back in 2013, but still love going back and referencing it for my more extroverted friends. Thanks for making this!
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You're welcome! And thanks for the comment!
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I hugged my introvert! Intros rule.
My introvert boyfriend Puppetcancer introduced me to this little how-to guide on the care and management of an introvert. I laughed... but I used the information, or try to, in order not to overwhelm him and the other intros in my life.
Great deviation. I absolutely loved it.
Mandi The Extrovert (can ya tell?)
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Wanna know what's beautiful?
Your avatar is beautiful!
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ahahah thanks! ^w^
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I love this - I've never thought about how much being introverted is like being a cat, but we do like the quiet acknowledgement of our mutual presence rather than sudden squeals and grabby hands and all. Sitting next to someone and maybe purring slightly IS friendship.
I and my ex (still a good friend) used to worry waiters in restaurants because we'd happily go out together for good food and then sit there reading our different books in amicable silence
Unfortunately, at some point in my middle years I've ended up a nervously compulsive talker instead, which means I'm just more acutely aware of how MUCH I'm getting on other introverts' nerves.
I've always loved sf conventions--not the big "Meet the Actor and Director" bashes, just hearing authors talk about writing and all, and being in the company of other introverts and oddballs who like to talk about ideas--but conventions have become an ordeal in self-hatred because I can no longer make myself SHUT UP--partly as a verbal self-defence but also because there are neat ideas I want to share with other introverts but I don't have telepathy, so I tend to spend half the con just driving myself nuts annoying people.
One therapist did point out that my existence DOES do me more good than it does other people harm, which should be obvious, but I miss the days when I could be amicably silent more often.
Self-defensive silence can still be friendly, but self-defensive chatter...urgh!
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Nifty! I've shared this with my friends on Facebook (via DA widget, of course). Unfortunately your links to the PDF book are dead.
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Yeah, it's available through Kindle and through good old fashioned Paypal transfer.
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I want this in a pamphlet X,D
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This is SO great. Can I translate it into Italian (my mother language)? My friend and I have a website where we translate webcomics into Italian (www.limeinthecoconut.org ). We'd love to host it there - credit to you, of course.
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It's online! Thank you!
www.limeinthecoconut.org/guida…
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haha "come out!" *hiss*
my best friend and I are both introverts for the most part (me a lot more so then her) we'll just sit there and read different books in the same room but still enjoy each others company....
this is awesome
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Isn't it great?
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Thank you much for this, it is excellent! I now have a better way of explaining introversion.
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You're welcome! And I'm glad to have helped you out!
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Have to disagree here: in social interaction it's both give and take. If you're only doing one of those, something is seriously wrong and it's time to re-evaluate your approach to social interaction.
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Hmm.
Extroverts give energy and take energy AND take pleasure of social interection. (1 give, 2 takes)
Introverts only give energy and take pleasure of social interaction (1 give, 1 take). They only need to take energy by being alone.
So I don't really see your point here, because social interaction is ALWAYS both ways - give and take.
You probably didn't read too carefully and don't know the difference between extroverts, introverts and antisocial people.
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What is your definition of extroverts, introverts and antisocial people? I'm curious.
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There is no "my definition".
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Then what do you mean by those terms? Could you explain them?
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Why? Can't you read info about either of those people types by yourself with understanding? 
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Sorry - I'm an introvert with social phobia. I very rarely have the need to spend energy for discussing about things that have been already discussed
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Yes, this is me. DO NOT INVADE THE HAMSTER BALL. But I still like hugs.
I've also noticed 3 hours or so is my limit of enjoying social interaction (assuming I'm not already tired). I can do up to about six before I stop being able to be polite. Even with family. The only two people I've ever found who don't drain me, who I can be around (read, in the same house with) for unlimited time are my best friend and brother in law. With everyone else I have to expend energy to keep their social energies from invading. Being out socially is like having to have my shields up all the time. I even think of putting on shoes as putting on social armor.
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Unfortunately introversion is always so under appreciated. I'm glad there is a guide like this, for both introverts and extroverts to understand.
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I love this. Something I wish everyone should know. I saw this on facebook a long while back. Good stuff, RomanJones.
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I love the cartoon though x
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Basically, 25. I feel like a monster.
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My teachers dont get this and always try to hug me and shit.
Needless to say I almost always go home with a headache
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