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Some people often feel that the drawbacks of social interaction outweigh the benefits. Some other people feel the opposite. At one point both choose to believe
by arguesalot 15y ago
Some people often feel that the drawbacks of social interaction outweigh the benefits. Some other people feel the opposite. At one point both choose to believe that social interactions are or are not of high value, and through daily social friction it soon becomes a permanent pattern of behaviour in their lives. Usually all this happens unconsciously in early life, but as time goes on it becomes conscious why they choose this or that. So i believe in most cases it's a voluntarily accepted pattern, and it has binary qualities.
By the way, introverted people should not be stereotyped as living with their mothers, they are successful enough not to and, indeed most of them value their independence above all.
- wisty 15y agoThere's some types of social behavior which are binary - you can speak in public or not, chat up girls (or boys) or not, and go to a Star Trek Convention without getting too freaked out. It's contextual. But I think people tend to have roughly normally distributed general social skills. There's very few people who's social skills are so bad they don't develop them further. People tend to develop their skills to the point where they are confortable with the kind of interaction they want.