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Location: Mississippi | I am a textbook introvert. I used to consider this a big flaw (especially in my teens and 20's when you are expected to be 'social') but now I am perfectly happy with it. I would do fine not to leave the house for days and because I work from home, that is actually the case alot of the time. But give me a barrel race to go to and it's a different story! |
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Location: Kentucky | I work with the public every day, so I need my time to decompress. I'm exhausted after a full day of interacting with people. I don't mind talking to people, although small talk is painful for me. I'm not shy, I can walk up to anyone and talk to them. I consider myself an introvert. I think the world needs introverts. We are the thinkers, the creative ones. The extroverts will execute our ideas for us. You need both to be productive.
Someone mentioned talking to new people on vacation, dinners, etc... that sounds like my hell lol. I just don't really care enough about most people to want to get to know them. Harsh or not, it's the truth. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | What do you call it when you can talk to anyone face to face, but just thinking about talking on the phone gives you hives? |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | I also voted somewhere in the middle...I have a lot of social anxiety but still function. I've literally gotten horses loaded and turned around and headed home or over to a local arena that rarely if ever has anyone else at it just because the whole idea of talking and dealing with other people makes me anxious. However M-F I work in a retail setting with for animal health supplies, before this I worked for 18 years in the school system with special needs kids and for 27 years coaching gymnastics at every level. |
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 A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | Introvert. I love the company of my family and good friends but the idea of having to sit somewhere while someone talks my ear off, I find exhausting. |
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| Introvert. I suffer from BAD anxiety when it comes to meeting new people. But put me at a race or anywhere around horses and I'll talk to anyone. HOWEVER being around people exhausts me. I suck at small talk and do not really care to chit chat with people I have nothing in common with. My husband is older than me and was not into horses before we met. So when we meet friends of his, I suck at making small talk. They probably think Im stuck up when in reality I am shy and have no desire to talk about things I know very little to nothing about. He on the other hand is a social butterfly and can and will talk to anyone. He loves being in groups of people and entertaining. Me on the other hand stay on the verge of a panic attack. I had to explain to him when I worked at a job I was required to talk constantly for almost 9 hours a day that I wasnt mad at him. I was mentally exhausted and wanted to be quiet for a bit. I now work in an office setting as a bookkeeper. If I want to stay in my office and not talk to anyone, I can. If I feel like being social, I can walk out in the showroom and do that too. The other 3 ladies in the office and I have NOTHING in common other than our place of business, and you know, I LOVE IT!!! My previous job was hell at times do to working with a fellow barrel racer/horse person that is so narcisistic you wouldnt believe the crap this person said to me!!!!!
I was actually told I am an iconoclast. I looked it up and yes thats me. I do not go along with social norms. shoot I married a man 25 years older than me! Always been one to challenge "the status quo" and will continue to be. Once I grasped what an iconoclast is, I am finally able to feel more comfortable with myself. |
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| wyoming barrel racer - 2017-03-28 3:15 PM
I picked in the middle because I can get along with about anyone, can strike up a conversation with pretty much anybody at a horse show or barrel race (because you just aren't cool if you can't talk horses!), BUT I have very few close close friends. I don't like drama.
This is me, too. Which is probably why me and you are friends.
I will say *exactly* what I think or feel about a situation or person, but have no need to be the most popular person or the one that everyone is talking to (or about.) |
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