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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you to the words of support.

I miss the ease of seeing friends. To do it now feels like you have to make a big “plan”, the weather must be nice, etc. I miss all the incidental contact of school pickups and extra curricular activities and school events, etc. I miss real travel, and I miss seeing the extended family beyond just parents and siblings after quarantining extensively. I miss my kids loving school. I had having to run a risk assessment on everything they ask to participate in. I don’t sleep well. I hate winter on a good year.[/quote]

Oh, so you're just an extrovert.  Piss off.  I've had to live your way for 40 years.[/quote]

I am an introvert and I am struggling. Not in the same way, but still struggling. I would normally spend 6-8 hours a day alone while my spouse and child were elsewhere. Now we are all in the same house together all the time. I can't even go to the bathroom on my own -- my kid has developed a lot of separation anxiety during covid and now freaks out if I even leave the room she is in. I have to choose between sensory overload from her screaming and crying, and spending even a few minutes alone. It is a very hard choice.

So it's not like the pandemic is hard for extroverts but great for everyone. If you are more comfortable now, I am glad (I have a lot of social anxiety, so I defintily understand the joy of all social obligations all but disappearing. But plenty of introverts are struggling too, in different ways. You can have compassion fro people who are different from you -- they didn't plan the pandemic. We are all having a hard time.[/quote]

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