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Throwaway because personal. Here’s my experience as an introvert: I don’t feel compelled to actively seek out social interaction. And it drains me. But ... if
by slfawr_intrvrt 5y ago
Throwaway because personal. Here’s my experience as an introvert: I don’t feel compelled to actively seek out social interaction. And it drains me.
But ... if I don’t get it, I start feeling depression symptoms and go sort of insane. Heck, it took me a while to even figure out there was a connection between the two and those symptoms had an easy fix!
I compare it to people who can’t feel pain [1] in that I’m hurting myself but don’t immediately recognize the source of the pathology.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...