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What is an extroverted introvert? As a youth I was introverted and its still my nature but I found I liked drama and being in a chorus and debate type things as I got older but Im still more likely and more than happy to quietly sit and read or mess with a device or be with my thoughts in a group setting and ill at ease meeting people.
What is an extroverted introvert?
It is a made up meme to explain the fact that almost no one is really extroverted or introverted. meyers-briggs, which is unscientific and was just made up by some dumbass who said "I think humans be like this", says all people are either extroverts or introverts. But in reality, one's level of extroversion or introversion depends heavily on environmental factors such as overall energy level or level of comfort with a particular person/group. To the extent that extroversion is a measurable, stable personality trait at all, when it is measured it fits a bell curve across the population - ie, the vast majority of people land smack dab in the middle of extroverted/introverted.
So if you say you are an extroverted introvert, you're just saying you're a normal fucking person. It comes from people accepting Meyers-Briggs as hard fact (it isn't), and then trying to fit this square peg into the round hole of their actual lived experience.
I got diagnosed with both later in life, but I am definitely more on the introverted side of things. Maybe an introvert leaning ambivert at most.
Maybe. I'm undiagnosed and I do consider myself an introvert but apparently I'm also socially somewhat skilled as people tend to like me.