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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: 1232949; 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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Maybe you're not an introvert
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what gives you the right to judge people?
at least give me a reason why you think I'm not an introvert, instead of say something without any evidence?
have you read what I read before making an argument to me?
just kidding, you don't have to, I understand.
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You could be an introvert, but most of the people on here say this is accurate
Some of the things on here are scientific facts, like how introverts get energy from themselves
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I know, but people can't just be classified as introverts or extroverts
there's more to it than that
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Well, it's not meant to be a medically accurate representation; it's a simplified version to help people understand why their bookish friend needs his alone time, and why that doesn't mean he doesn't want to hang out.
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ah that makes sense.
thanks for telling me
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my hamster ball is reinforced just in case.
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I feel so at home reading this. The older I get, the more introverted I become, but that's because I don't open the door for just ANYONE anymore. I'm fine with socializing and I absolutely love solitude, but others tend to think I'm hiding from the world. If I had to choose, I'd take solitude over company any day as it recharges my battery the best. Conversely, once I know that a person (whether a fellow introvert or not) is sincere, I'll be happy to share my bubble.
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If you hug me I might kill you(joke)
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OMG! You are brilliant! The way you explained the introverts world... it was amazing! I’m an introvert myself and I’ve never imagined it that way. I love it
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Everyone needs to read this!
Introverts unite! ...separately... in your own homes.... X3
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Wow, creepily accurate I need to label this as an instruction manual/pocket guide and hand it out to friends/family/coworkers.
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This is pretty much perfect. I actually just wrote a psych paper on introversion a week or so ago, and now I kind of wish I had just submitted a copy of this comic. Of course the paper had to be twelve pages long so...
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That is very true. I always find myself tired and when I'm alone I have a lot more energy.
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Ah, that explains me. Thank you. *applause *
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I feel my friends should read, knowing I am more of an introvert.
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Brilliant Work, you really got it Right!
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Yup. I'm an introvert and that's exactly how I work. Yet somehow i always end up with super extroverted freinds...
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See, this makes perfect sense to me.
And my family, after seeing the comic, STILL doesn't get it.
You know the part of The Lion King where Scar says, "I'm surrounded by morons?"
Yeah. I'm surrounded by extraverts!
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It worries me how many introverts think this is the best thing after twin-flavored Nutella and that they should show this to all their extrovert friends and the rest of the people they interact with, so that the rest of the world "learns" to treat with them the way they would like to be treated.
I am sorry introverts, i truly have nothing against you, but you are not special cookies and you do not get the silky gloves treatment.
The world does not adapt to the individual, the individual adapts to the world, and it is wrong for you to think that somehow the world should bend to your needs, views and preferences rather than you needing to adapt and learn how to interact with the rest of society.
Seriously, what´s with all these labels suddenly wanting special rights, treatment and consideration?
You are people, not worse, not better, not below, not above, get over it.
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I totally get it. As an introverted person, that is.
I go around the day, fitting my personality to survive a situation. Because it didn't take a long time to realize people are STUBBORN- they all want the world their way! ALL of them, and they'll try to manipulate an environment to their will. That's what might be happening here.
You can't shape the world to your own personal desires- it simply won't happen. Eventually, everyone's gonna see they're hitting brick walls attempting to do so. The water doesn't change its course alone- it depends on the forces of nature surrounding it, and flows around the boulders in it's path.
But you're an introvert. So stay in your comfort zone, let people in cautiously. That's just your personality. Let the extroverts be, and don't try to change what comes naturally to someone, being SUPER social. 
Just be happy with how it all is.
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That´s pretty much the right attitude, Laurenabees.
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Notice it says "guide to understanding" No one said you had to do any of this or give anyone 'special treatment', not that being considerate is special treatment. You can be ignorant or oblivious to people's personalities if you like. Just don't expect to have successful interactions with introverted people or anyone with a different personality to you for that matter.
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Actually yes, asking people to be considerate of your "special condition" and expecting them to behave differently to how said people would act with the rest of the world is asking for special treatment, like it or not.
And believe it or not, i do have a couple of introvert friends, the difference being that "my introverts" do not ask for special treatment and we simply have silent understanding in which i dont take offense to their silence, and they don´t take offense to my poking.
It is quite pretentious of you to claim that i will have no success with those that are different from me because my life says otherwise, especially when you do not know my standards or defaults in dealing with people.
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When I first started reading it, I read 'Master' ball instead of Hamster ball. XD
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This is EXACTLY what I am and how I work, and I always struggled trying to explain it to my hyperactive friends who very much demand attention and energy from me whenever we're together. I'm glad to know that there are others who feel this way and go through this. Makes me feel less like a horrible anti-social person and more like...well...just a normal introverted person.
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You are not horrible and anti-social and you should never think poorly of yourself.
Even if people do not treat you the way you wish for or you do not connect with people as much as they want, this does NOT make a bad person.
With that said, do not think poorly of your extrovert friends if they do not treat you with silky gloves.
The world should not adapt to you, it goes the other way around, i am afraid.
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Awesome! And painfully true some days...
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I love this! Wish more people could see it so introverts like me wouldn't have as much of an issue >.<
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What a load of self-centered baloney.
"Me be special snowflake, me be so hard to understand, me so distant and selective"
Hey, Mr. Introvert Special Snowflake, I think your concept of energy is bullshit and I assume your standpoint inherits from self-entitlement issues and a narcissistic overblown ego. You're shitty "how-to" is nothing but a self-indulgent fantasy where people need to learn to interact with you rather then you having to learn how to interact with "non-introvert" people, what a grave injustice that would be. Go take that self righteous two faced bullcrap and stick it up your pooper.
I am disgusted at the estrogen driven circle-jerk that goes on here, do you people feel no shame?
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Heh? So are you saying that "non-introvert" people are so special that every single introvert people need to adapt to interact with them? Sorry I'm not buying your logic since it works one way and not applying for another way round.
You would not treat us the way we feel comfortable but want us to treat you the way that you are comfortable with huh? How about "no".
Extrovert and introvert are just description and classification of human social behavior the whole thing about energy here is just to make people understand easier why they are like that.
It does not mean by anyway at all that we didn't adapt to the society. Of course we all have to adapt else how would we be able to live in the society huh? This thing is just clarification of what you "need" to do if you "want" to understand or to initiate the relationship with and introvert. It does not demand you to do so if you don't want to. It's okay.
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I find myself agreeing 100% with you.
"This is nothing but a self-indulgent fantasy where people need to learn to interact with you rather then you having to learn how to interact with "non-introvert" people"
This pretty much resumes every single "I am this way/have this syndrome/was raised this way : here´s how to interact with me
While i would never go out of my way to hurt anybody and i DO try to accomodate my friends and their needs, to go as far a pretend it is almost expected and demanded of me that i should bend to make special people comfortable around me is kinda obnoxious and unfair.
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An extrovert like you wouldn't understand. That's okay though
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Stop polarizing people into extrovert and introvert. You are dumbing us all down.
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It's a joke. Read the description.
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This looks like a freaking guide to deal with cats hahahahaha
Congrats, it's hilarious... And true. I would have added we actually get energy from a hug if it's given by someone we love <3
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This is it exactly, and I found myself laughing as I read this because of how true it is (and how catlike we sound when discussing how to approach us. xD ) I need to print this out and carry it around so that anyone who does not understand introversion will understand me and my actions better in rl. xD
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Exactly what I thought! Is it a coincidence that people who do not understand introverts, usually are the same people who don't understand cats either?
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haha really?? I never noticed, I always seem to surround myself with fellow introverts!! xD But you are on to something, the one extrovert I DO know doesn't read cats very well, from what I've seen.... *looks off into distance* Maybe we've stumbled onto a secret of life, here...
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This is so true. I'm an introvert in the Army, which is a very social organization and im just felt drained every time i get off and go home. On the weekends when i have off, i spend the whole weekend to myself, just playing video games, watching netflix or other stuff that does not require social interaction just to gain my energy back.
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ok this is useful and all but:
people should stop thinking that labels define you, you can be an introvert but you can become an extrovert if you want and make the effort, you can be anything you want, i know finding people like you helps cope with day to day problems, but it also limits you to become whatever you want to be, even a rocket physicist at 55, you can be whatever you want to be, and if you want to be by your own and dont like public attention god bless, but only if youre doing because thats what you want to do, not because internet explains that your kind does something or the other, even if psychiatrists find patterns theres nothing stopping you from becoming a complete sports douchebag or an art geek. And yeah, you can become athletic if you work a lit on it, and one day you´ll love your morning jog like you loved your lonely afternoons.
What im trying to say is this, if sometimes you feel theres is no answers for you in the internet, its because there are not, these charts are really cool and help, but don´t use them to explain your limits, you have no limits.
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