On introversion and socialising

Okay I’m going to pull a straight-up example from this board of something like an introvert goes through sometimes.

So. While this one doesn’t explicitly say he said anything out loud, I presume he said some niceties such as “no thanks, I’m not a dancer”. There are other examples in that thread of people absolutely saying things out loud. This is what we introverts are talking about with the party thing. As said before: we have no problem telling you once or twice during the night that we’re doing great, the food is good, and we like your music, but it’s cool, we like it here on the couch. It’s when we get into this extra bit with the whole ignoring what we say thing that it becomes a problem.

And seriously…you gotta lay off the whole “barely concealed contempt” thing - because it sure makes it sound like that’s describing you right now. Doesn’t help your argument.

The answer to “and wonder aloud why introverts bother attending parties” is that we like attending parties and being around people. Just not people that treat our mindset as something wrong.