Retinend wrote:Well I feel out of place. I don't have problems talking to people. Most people aren't anything to be bowled over by.
Neither are they boring. How one can be "asocial" or indifferent to them is the same to me as saying you're indifferent to languages. They make up the world.
I used to be more withdrawn but that was because I took myself too seriously and social situations which required me to be more convivial put me out of my comfort zone. I think if you cling too hard to these precious labels (above all "introvert") you will condemn yourself to never escape yours.
Everyone has different experiences in life and experiences living differently. Just because you haven't experienced issues with talking to people, social anxiety, challenges that come with being an introvert, etc doesn't mean that a. those things don't exist or b. that those labels and diagnosis make someone somehow "less than". Not everyone who is an introvert or who has trouble talking or relating to people takes themselves too seriously.
That you equate introversion or being asocial with finding someone boring shows just how ill informed you are on this topic.
I think if you cling too hard to these precious labels (above all "introvert") you will condemn yourself to never escape yours.
Not everyone wants to or feels the need to "escape" being an introvert. Also if you were to exchange "introvert" with "depressed" I could most assuredly tell you that not "clinging too hard to this precious label" would do almost nothing to help me escape being depressed.