secretk |
03-11-2018 10:14 PM |
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Originally Posted by The Apt
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I wonder if it’s culture differences or just a certain pattern within my family. But most definitely the women are way more introverted. Women are very strong too, calling the shots, lol.
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Can't say. As far as I read women are typically Extrovert in your country as well. It's the stereotype. Usually they expect the woman to be the one being warm and welcoming and just sociable.
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Interesting. I can fake it too but I was way more extroverted as a child/teen. Some of it was due to sports. Some of it due to just being a teen and social life mattered more even if I was still introverted. As an adult I’m a million times more introverted.
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Most probably sports helped. For me it was the other way around. I was the hugely Introvert kid. I had a purpose and social life was not important for me. It came to a point where my parents would basically beg me to go out and not study all the time :lol: . My father would constantly asking me if I was not tired and make me get rest and I was like "Nah, I want to finish this".
Now I do not have social life either. I communicate at work because I either need to train someone or to communicate to someone on what's going on. But this is not social interaction, this is work. Whenever I can, I put on my headphones and pretend that no one is in the office :D.
Outside of work I still do not interact with people nor I go to places. I chat with my best friend and we meet from time to time, but that's it. I spend most of my weekends alone.
So I guess I look more Extrovert at work because of the way I conduct myself, but deep down I am very strong Introvert. Quite frankly people see me playing a role at work. Most of them have not seen the real me and would never see it. I look sociable and warm and nice and I am not any of that :D. It's a bit sad that no one actually knows the real me. To some extent my mother knows me, but even she does not see my internal process fully. Even my best friend does not know how I process information and what I am inside. I guess this is the price you pay when you are Introvert. I do not open up to people because I know that most of them cannot handle me anyway.
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