Definitely on my page here - I had about 5 points I wanted to comment to disagree with but you unravelled your thoughts later and dismantled any need to heh. For example:
we are neither extroverts or introverts
I've been thinking this more and more. When taking those tests, I consistently come out as highly introverted - higher than anyone else i've ever known take them, often like 98%. It's not like I'm trying, I don't take that as a point of pride. I just find it unusual.
Sure, I have a disposition that tends towards being alone, and given the choice that will always be my option.
But I teach choir, I stand in front of a group of kids and sing, and I enjoy it, and I am a stricter teacher than any others in this school because they're all useless so I have to pick up their failings. I'm still cool though, I think. Just not tolerant of asshole kids, so I have to strike fear in them with an authoritative aura.
That's not 'introverty'. Further, I always surprise people such as my girlfriend at my ability to be the centre of a conversation in a dinner when everyone else's vibes are off. I only do it if necessary, otherwise I will happily sit in silence until the nights over. But I know when things are dipping and can pick it up easily.
But apparently as an introvert, I'm incapable of that? I 'run out of power' and just want to read a book, according to internet culture.
Just doesn't seem right. It's a lot more nuanced.
You tend to have the talkers and the non-talkers.
Some 'talkers' I come across I really don't like, they seem to be such talkers that they have zero interest or maybe even capacity to hear things said to them.
The other day I met somebody and they asked me some questions, but before I could even finish my sentence it was obvious they were not even listening and just waiting to say the next thing, to impose their personality on me through the guise of curiosity.
I know they didn't listen because they asked the exact same question about 10 minutes later, completely oblivious to the fact we already did that. Their eyes just glaze over. I've met quite a lot of people like that, it's almost psychotic in some way, the way they look at me with empty minds. The conversations they do pull of are just insipid, vapid and some other cool adjectives that mean something dull.
Ok I've had my say.
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