For all you introverts and people who deal with them

I'm a mesovert,which is someone who has traits from both sides of the "introvert"/"extrovert equation.I would hazard a guess that a lot of people are like this.Funny cartoon,though.

 

Great cartoon!

 

Does it say anything about procrastinators?

tl; dr

 

The comic is SOOO insightful

But with me, it's complicated. I'm a bit of a gender mix, but about 40% of me is introverted ("female mode").

My male side is somewhat extroverted, probably because "he" is attracted to ladies and likes to bond with "fellow" males, talking about sports and politics.

My female side is ANTI-SOCIAL, thinks women are mundane, critical, nitpicking and BORING. Pot calling the kettle?
She thinks men are grunting, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals who would play with their own feces if women didn't stop them. My goofy male side doesn't do much to improve that view.
Like Agatha Trunchbull in Matilda, She thinks the perfect school is one with no children.

My androgyne "middle" part is neutral..too busy building inventions and testing prototypes to notice people but "I" can choose which gender "mode" to experience, so often choose a middle road skewed toward my male side.
He's stupid, but more fun. What's the point of working in a school filled with adorable kids and beautiful female Thai teachers if I can't appreciate it?! :love:

 

It makes sense.

"Don't demand to have energy spend on you when it's not particularly needed" <-- takes me back to when I was a kid Got to respect my parents :biggrin:

 

I'm mostly introverted but I draw my energy from other people. I just don't always feel like being around other people lol

 

I sometimes appear introverted because I assume too easily other introverts don't want to be bothered with social interaction (from my part).

 

yeah me too. I'm shy and unassuming moreso than introverted. I just assume people want to be left alone sometimes and I don't like to bother people when they're obviously not in a good mood.

 

I'm like that as well. ^^^

I definitely have an extroverted style when I approach people, but I typically only approach people when I already feel welcomed or when I'm just in a great mood and maybe no one has drained my energy in awhile. It's true that when I'm social with people I give a lot. I find that I'm often the one driving the conversation or the center of attention or either mediating the conversation, bringing people back in, etc.

That takes a lot of energy but that's how I prefer to interact with people. I prefer to have meaningful conversations and meaningful actions when I'm around people. That doesn't mean it has to be deep discussions, but there are few people I want to gossip with. There's only one actually.

I'm also a really good listener, I take things in and when I offer advice it takes a lot of energy for me to give the person information appropriate to their situation, so yeah, that can be draining. If, for instance I go somewhere and I'm being constantly social for a few days, I need more than just a little sleep to bounce back.

A lot of my closest friends are more extroverted though and they give people more of a chance than I do, so I meet friends through other friends. I'm not sure how well that works really, but it has happened a lot in the past.

 

I'm the obnoxious predator that comic warns you about!!!

 

I think, to my daughter, I'm an "obnoxious predator."
At least I cautiously message her every few days until she feels like Skyping a bit.
Only then will she answer, but sometimes we just message awhile until the next week..less tiring.

Foreign teachers at my school sometimes ask me to parties.
I decline, thinking,
After dealing with kids at school all day, I want to spend my FREE TIME with more PEOPLE?

I'm usually off climbing the nearest mountain the moment work ends.

:sunny:

 

I think that parents are just like that, especially when the kid is freshly out of the living at home/not quite an adult phase...and kids are just naturally not that inclined to talk to their parents all the time. I'm assuming the age of your daughter of course and I could be wrong.

 

LOVE YOU usedtobehoney...for assuming (or at least pretending to assume) any youth on my side.

I'm 61 and my daughter is 30, but single, so there's no "mommy element" to make her feel sympathetic to a mom.
Every week or so, she'll message back that she wants me to call, so I'll Skype-to phone call her and we'll talk for 3 hours straight.
Then it will be another week or so before I start cautiously messaging her.

I just say something like, "Hey!" or "Love ya!"

then wait for a response.
She has plenty of friends, but when I sent her that cartoon she loved it,
said it was mostly her.