It’s Me! Sort of!
May 5th, 2008
Having just suffered an attack of “somehow they’ll know it’s me!”, I just removed my post about making a report to child services. It probably could have stayed up here, since my panic has passed and I remember again that I kept anything even sort of confidential out of the post, but now it’s deleted, so there you go.
Anyway, I have something different to entertain you instead: the care and feeding of introverts.
This article describes me absolutely perfectly, except that I like talking about myself, particularly on this blog. Okay, it’s not perfect. But it is pretty close, especially the parts about liking socializing but being crappy at small talk, and needing a long period of recharge after contact with other humans.
I experience a lot of needless anxiety trying to think of things to say because I know most folks think you should be saying something, and it’s embarrassing to find yourself without some kind of smooth transitional comment that both acknowledges the current topic and advances things to the next fascinating topic. Like you extroverts seem to know how to do purely by instinct. Which I am envious of. And try to fake, with a success rate that only people who know me can report on – I’m too nervous to make a good assessment during the heat of the moment.
But anyway, there you have it. I’m off to bed to stew on the day and hopefully have a good night of rest. I hope you are all doing well tonight.