You can do it! (at your own pace)
I don't know if we share it the same way, but as an extreme introvert, I'm not good with socializing—I get drained most of the time. I prefer to be alone and enjoy silence. BUT I dream of being extroverted and was doing things I rarely do as an introvert, but always ends up exhausted and cutting of myself from everyone else for several weeks after that.
In blogging (I blog at WP aside from Hive), I can better express myself and socialize a bit without fearing face-to-face interactions. :)
Yeah, I generally feel that way. I can go socializing spree for weeks but I'd shut down for months. Still trying to find a healthy balance to that. I am not at all scared of face-to-face interaction, I am so chatty and I can talk for hours about anything. It's just that after, I would shut down.
I think you are the type that opens really up when you feel comfortable with somebody but when you notice the person is not so open as you are, you lock up.
I don't know where to classify myself in being an introvert or extrovert.
Why I said so if I have so many friends, if I am to say in number 3000 at least but at the same time I don't spend much time relating with people.
Except from going to work and coming back home, I'm not used to hanging out. We can actually be in the same house and you might possibly not know I am around that's because I spend my time mostly alone not doing anything but playing the guitar.
Yeah. This too. If someone is not open with me, I would not open to them. I don't disclose my information if they didn't. I normally can sense from miles if they just want to take an advantage of me, except some people, I admit they are good at disguising it.
Man you have so many friends! I don't think mine is over 20 and when I mention friend is someone I talk to daily and continuously.
Yeah, let me say those guys I call friends are people that I have interacted with and been acquainted together, plus I have almost 5k contacts on my phone.
The problem with me is that, I don't call people. I mean not for anything less important and it is hard reaching up with a lot of people I have known.
I play the guitar so I get to meet people even though I stay in doors.
@starstrings01, you may want to discover your personality in 16personalities test. It's not 100% accurate and by no means is a clinical result, but it's a good start.
I love solitude so much that I wanted to be a hermit and just live in a small hut in the mountains, but reality forces me to behave "normal" to pay bills and not go hungry. ;D
Yeah man ! that's what sucks with this all. You have to be "normal" or "die " lol