Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
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When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.
I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.
Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.
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