# Any other introvert/extroverts out there? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2020, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518 "2020-06-12T05:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518/21 "2020-06-24T19:06:42Z")
I lean to the introverted side. I really enjoy meeting new people and getting to know folks one-on-one or in small groups, but I really do not do well at parties where I don’t know people. I am not the guy who walks in and works the room. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518/22 "2020-06-25T00:03:22Z")
I’m similar in that I like addressing groups. I don’t always feel at ease about it, but from the feedback I get, I seem to be pretty good at it. I also like parties where I can interact with people. But then sometimes I would prefer to be off in a more intimate subset of the party. Generally before the party, I tend to like just relaxing by myself at home or just doing my thing. But then too much of that, I kind of get the need to be around people. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518/23 "2020-06-25T07:40:15Z")
From what I’ve read, most people are somewhere in the middle; it’s a bell curve, like a lot of things. Classifying people as one or the other is like dividing people between “tall” and “short.” I’ve taken the Meyers-Briggs test several times, because I have an inexplicable fascination with pseudoscientific navel-gazing, I guess. (What personality type is that?) I get introvert half the time, extrovert the other half, always just barely over the line. ---
**Author:** ![PlaceboTarget](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/placebotarget/32/1073_2.png) [@PlaceboTarget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlaceboTarget)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518/24 "2020-06-25T07:43:31Z")
I for one regard myself a natural extrovert who has become introverted for practical reasons. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518/25 "2020-06-25T08:04:29Z")
In these curious times I am a subscriber to the COVIDSafe tracking app used in Australia. Was just sent me a message that the tracking hadn’t made contact with any other device in the last 48 hours and if I could check that the app was still working on my smartphone. It’s working OK. Apart from a couple of skype calls for work I haven’t spoken to or been within several metres of anybody in the past couple of days. Social distancing seems to be my default. 😌 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518/26 "2020-06-25T19:39:55Z")
Sounds like me! I can be the life of the party, but it’s an rare combination of circumstances that would cause it to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518/27 "2020-06-25T20:28:01Z")
I’m not literally the shyest, most introverted, socially unintelligent, anxious person in the world, but I am on the spectrum in them all and combined they’re a real bitch. The lockdown/social isolation has shown me the limits of my introversion. During the first few weeks of the lockdown there were days where I wouldn’t see anyone at all and I was okay with that, the only limiting thing I dislike is the smallness of my one bedroom apartment which I didn’t plan on living most of the time in. The limits of my introversion were realized when my mom and I agreed to talk each week on the phone to make sure we’re still alive. Now that things are opening back up, we haven’t stopped, and now, I don’t want to stop, because the social interaction makes up for the drainingness of talking to someone else in a medium where you can’t see their face for context. When I was around people all the time at the office, I didn’t feel like calling people at all because being around people, and especially calling them, is draining to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-introvert-extroverts-out-there/855518.md?page=1)