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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it can go either way. My introverted eldest was very driven and had tons of leadership positions in his passion fields - he also had his own business and teachers loved him because he was so smart.  His resume going to college was near perfect.  My next one getting ready to apply next year is an extrovert but just likes to hang with friends and chill. Dare I say a touch lazy?  So, it depends.[/quote]

Enough with the "WAAAAHHHH I'm an introvert nonsense"[/quote]

There's no WAAAAAHHHH here, but I do think it's important to understand that there is an entire sector of apparently well-socialized adults out there (myself included) [b]that finds spending time in the company of others to be *work.*  It's not that that work can't be pleasurable or meaningful or necessary or important - but it is *work* for some of us.  So it takes effort and energy.  It's like climbing a hill in the company of others who are more physically strong than you are.  You know you have to keep up, and you want to, but you're going to feel the exhaustion more than they are when you all reach the top of that hill.[/b]

Is this bad or wrong or WAAAAAHHHH?  No, it's just who I am.  I think the only thing I wish were different is that people didn't think it was weird when I didn't feel the need to go out all the time when I was younger.  I never actually wanted social time attached to the end of my day and didn't consider meeting new people to be a form of entertainment.  Others do.  I had to suck up a certain amount of it to make and keep friends.  Now I'm grateful to be busy enough with work and DCs to have the excuse![/quote]

Really good analogy. And it’s exactly what I was trying to explain previously about how stuff like school, sports, band, clubs, etc; is more work because of the social aspect. Whereas for others they might mainly like these things because of the social aspect. I distinctly remember the kids in school that would love group projects, mention stuff like how the only thing that makes school fun for them is the socializing part, etc… I had a small group of friends I enjoyed seeing but it’s not like they were in every class (or often times, any classes) I did better on the days we’d just have lectures and the days we did tests. School would have been much easier for me if teachers didn’t focus so much on doing things that made the extroverts happy like “work together on this worksheet and talk quietly, do this group project and presentation” etc.

in a public school you’ll have 5-7 class periods each day sometimes having to interact with more than 100 different other kids. That in and of itself is work for an introvert.[/quote]

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