Thom Rainer follows up some posts on introverts by taking a light-hearted stab at characterising us and ticks a lot of my personal boxes.
- You might be an introvert if you enjoyed timeout as a child.
- You might be an introvert if you shop at 1:00 am in the 24-hour grocery store to avoid seeing people.
- You might be an introvert if you rearrange the name cards at a dinner table so you don’t have to sit next to people you don’t know.
- You might be an introvert if you like to have an extroverted friend with you so he can carry on the conversations you want to avoid.
- You might be an introvert if your favorite game is solitaire.
- You might be an introvert if your favorite number is one.
- You might be an introvert if you take plenty of reading material on airplanes to avoid talking to people.
- You might be an introvert if you smile when you see the “Do Not Talk” sign in the library.
- You might be an introvert if you try to convince family members that you are really okay staying at home for a week of vacation.
- You might be an introvert if you avoid buying new clothes so people won’t comment to you about them.
- You might be an introvert if you can’t understand what’s so bad about solitary confinement.
- You might be an introvert if you enjoy talking to yourself more than anyone else.
- You might be an introvert if the word “meeting” causes you to become mildly to violently nauseous.
- You might be an introvert if you work in your garden at night with a headlamp to avoid conversations with neighbors.
- You might be an introvert if you think social media is the greatest invention in 200 years because you can communicate without being around people.
- You might be an introvert if your favorite room in the house is the bathroom because you know you can be alone there.
Meanwhile the infographic below provides a scheme for interacting with introverts.
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I trust any extroverts reading this have been able to cope with all this time we haven’t been talking about them.
