# Introverts Masquerading as Extroverts: Your Experiences **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2011, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912 "2011-02-28T12:55:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![uuaschbaer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@uuaschbaer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uuaschbaer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912/41 "2011-03-01T19:39:03Z")
> [@beagledave](#): > > A relevant piece from the [Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-for-your-introvert/2696/), in case you haven’t seen it before. Nice article. He’s wrong on everything I think, or serious about nothing. A citation: _Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts._ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Implicit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912/42 "2011-03-01T21:57:43Z")
Caring for your Introvert is a good article. Here is a user guide to one flavour of introvert: [The Compleat Idiot’s Guide to the INTJ](http://intjcentral.com/manual3). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912/43 "2011-03-01T23:29:15Z")
I used to be an extrovert, but now I’m a painfully shy introvert. I’m not sure what happened, but I much preferred the old me. ☹ Or maybe that was the ‘real me’ and I just didn’t know it. Masquerading indeed. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912/44 "2011-03-02T02:28:22Z")
Like I intimated upthread, **ff** , my real me went into hiding for almost 20 years. Yours will come back out eventually. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912/45 "2011-03-02T11:40:41Z")
I’m not sure what I am sometimes. I am extremely out-going, love talking to people, and am almost never shy. At the same time, being around people drains me. I enjoy the energy I get from socializing, but it’s a net loss. If I don’t get some private time, ideally an hour or two every day, I get cranky and/or tired. I used to be shy and socially-awkward when I was younger, and I gradually became my out-going chit-chatty self… Anyway, I’m not concerned as I’m quite happy with the way things are, but it makes the intro/extrovert question kinda tough to answer. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912/46 "2011-03-02T14:28:52Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Like I intimated upthread, **ff** , my real me went into hiding for almost 20 years. Yours will come back out eventually. 🆒 I hope you’re right, **John**. Like I said, I miss that side of me and it’s incredibly difficult to ever bring it out again these days. But I’ll be waiting. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/introverts-masquerading-as-extroverts-your-experiences/572912.md?page=2)