Introverts Unite!!!

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  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,679 Member
    Former extrovert shoved into the closet (not the gender closet) by an injury, checking in! *buries nose back in a book*
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    As long as we can unite seperatly, I'm game :)
  • jenna_mikewolf
    jenna_mikewolf Posts: 31 Member
    Ok Introverts...what book are you reading at the moment. I’m thinking about making December the month I re-read my favorites....but I would have to average a book or more a day :smiley:
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    It Devours, a Night Vale Novel
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,874 Member
    aerosolo wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »

    Interesting observation about clashing at work. I'm also an ISTJ. My former boss and mentor (a man I felt privileged to work with for 5 years) was the exact opposite - ENFP. Yet our working relationship was always brilliant! We even joked about how we should hate working together.

    I tested so strongly as INTJ that my roommates couldn't understand how I was surviving waiting tables. Then I put on my "work" persona and resulted in ENFP. Even having moved on to an engineering job (hallelujah) I never want to see another living being after work.

    @aerosolo That is so me!! And my job isn't even customer-facing. I'm in the back office, but people insist on calling me or stopping by my office to chat. 'Oh, we work in the same building but I NEVER see you so I just wanted to say hi!' Uhm, you never see me because I don't want to be seen :lol:
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    mostly fanfiction because by the time I get to the end of the day, my brain is shot and I just need some easy escapism that doesn't require a whole lot of mental power lol

    I'm about halfway through an audio book version of LOTR: Two Towers, and have Louis L'Amour's The Mountain Valley War loaded to listen to next.

    And there's probably 6 or 7 other books, non fiction, at various stages of being read on my kindle :blush:
  • Ashers783
    Ashers783 Posts: 41 Member
    Deffo an introvert, feel free to add me
  • helena99716
    helena99716 Posts: 62 Member
    edited November 2017
    Another introvert here, looking for some support. Feel free to add me. ^-^ Though I can't promise I'll be socialising a lot. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, it's a hard introvert life. :D
  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,679 Member
    jenna_mikewolf wrote: »
    Ok Introverts...what book are you reading at the moment. I’m thinking about making December the month I re-read my favorites....but I would have to average a book or more a day :smiley:

    I’m a huge fan of Christian fiction. Right now, I’m working on Beverly Lewis’s The Proving.
  • kb1927
    kb1927 Posts: 32 Member
    jenna_mikewolf wrote: »
    Ok Introverts...what book are you reading at the moment. I’m thinking about making December the month I re-read my favorites....but I would have to average a book or more a day :smiley:

    I'm pregnant, and during pregnancies I like long series (because I get even more introverted as I get rounder and it feels so good), so I've reread the Game of Thrones series, the Outlander series, and The Lies of Locke Lamora series lately. I'll go back to literary fiction once this baby comes out.
  • jmegagne
    jmegagne Posts: 4 Member
    jenna_mikewolf wrote: »
    Not sure why it cut off some of my post??? Ugh! Any way, I know that there are more of you out there like me, right!?!? The type that needs support sometimes, but not all the time??? The type that is ok doing their own thing most of the time, but in moments of introversion need to reach out??? Or maybe it's just me

    Yesssss! I totally hear you and understand. I am in the same boat. :)
  • kcpond
    kcpond Posts: 651 Member
    I am also an introvert, scored very high in the intj scale as well. My wife, soon to be ex, had trouble with this and part of the reason why we are in the seperation process now
    !
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    jmegagne wrote: »
    jenna_mikewolf wrote: »
    Not sure why it cut off some of my post??? Ugh! Any way, I know that there are more of you out there like me, right!?!? The type that needs support sometimes, but not all the time??? The type that is ok doing their own thing most of the time, but in moments of introversion need to reach out??? Or maybe it's just me

    Yesssss! I totally hear you and understand. I am in the same boat. :)

    Im with you both! I need alone time to process and recharge, but too much alone time and depression and isolation set in; at those times, I need other folks to help pull me out of the dark places of my head.
  • krazy1sbk
    krazy1sbk Posts: 128 Member
    jenna_mikewolf wrote: »
    Ok Introverts...what book are you reading at the moment. I’m thinking about making December the month I re-read my favorites....but I would have to average a book or more a day :smiley:

    I just started a book called Black Wolves by Kate Elliot (I'm big into sci-fi and fantasy)
  • amandaeve
    amandaeve Posts: 723 Member
    I just finished The Gene and am starting The Emperor of All Maladies, both by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I'm mostly a non-fiction person.
  • Jingsi84
    Jingsi84 Posts: 127 Member
    kcpond wrote: »
    I am also an introvert, scored very high in the intj scale as well. My wife, soon to be ex, had trouble with this and part of the reason why we are in the seperation process now
    !

    Sorry to hear about your separation. :( I'm an INTJ too who is now divorced from a ENFP-feeling husband who thought me insensitive just because I'm not overtly emotional. Good thing we have no problem being alone!
  • vhepp5
    vhepp5 Posts: 55 Member
    karingeleynse191 wrote: »
    Sometimes I am so insecure or peopled out I have a hard time actually going and working out in the gym. I'll have a work out planned and I get there and it's busy so I panic and hide in the corner on one of the bikes. It often throws my work out schedule offend I miss days :( it's honestly hard! I used to have a 24hr gym and it was great cause I was in school and I went at 1am after a long day of studying and the gym was totally empty. But now I had to switch to a cheaper gym that doesn't have the 24hr feature. Any suggestions?

    No suggestions because I'm the same way!!! It's like intimidating or something. Hardest part is when others are there..especially fit ones lol
  • amandaeve
    amandaeve Posts: 723 Member
    vhepp5 wrote: »
    karingeleynse191 wrote: »
    Sometimes I am so insecure or peopled out I have a hard time actually going and working out in the gym. I'll have a work out planned and I get there and it's busy so I panic and hide in the corner on one of the bikes. It often throws my work out schedule offend I miss days :( it's honestly hard! I used to have a 24hr gym and it was great cause I was in school and I went at 1am after a long day of studying and the gym was totally empty. But now I had to switch to a cheaper gym that doesn't have the 24hr feature. Any suggestions?

    No suggestions because I'm the same way!!! It's like intimidating or something. Hardest part is when others are there..especially fit ones lol

    @karingeleynse191 I have a really big personal bubble and hate it when the gym is crowded. My old gym used to get REALLY crowded in the afternoons. I'd try to go in the morning, but would still go after work if I slept in or had to get to work early. Sometimes it would be so crowded, I'd walk straight to the bathroom, hang out in a stall for a while, and then walk straight out. I feel like a gym has to be super convenient or it's not worth it. I'd try different days and different times, but you are not saving any money if you can't get good value out of it. I've seen folks working out totally hidden in big hoodies and headphones, maybe that would help.
  • Silkysausage
    Silkysausage Posts: 502 Member
    I'm an introverted extrovert, we do exist!

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