I wanna go home

Not me spending 2 months recharging my social battery after one Friday night out...

When I say "I'm busy", I mean that I'm 8 episodes deep into my new show and I would rather hang out with them than any real human people.

My earphones are always in, whether or not I'm listening to music.

Thank god it's Friday night and I just got paid. Now I can create a crater in my comfy couch while I watch a movie and order takeout. I love that Seamless, Doordash, and Uber Eats allow me to get the food I crave with minimal social interaction. You see, it's not that I don't like people. And it's not that I have a ton of social anxiety. I just need a lot of time to recharge, and prefer hanging out with my friends in intimate situations, without the hustle and bustle of the going-out crowd. I'm…

Not shy, just not interested

There's a long history of pitting introverts against extroverts, and a long history of stereotypes about the two. Introverts are supposed to be shy, boring, and antisocial, while extroverts are obnoxiously the opposite: loud, attention-seeking and annoying socialites. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the actual definition of introvert is as follows: “introvert: a person whose personality is characterized by introversion : a typically reserved or quiet person who tends to be introspe…