INTROVERTS THREAD ...shhhh, we're over here

[NorksAreMessy]

Hello fellow introverts. I hope the last thread exploded due to time since it was started, and not because it was controversial. :o

I started the original thread after reading the wonderful book quiet and realizing that I was not alone.

Lots of people were kind enough to share their thoughts and experiences, and it was a good support for those of us who like being alone; hate parties, especially hen nights; love reading, crafting, walking, painting, creating; enjoy solitude; need some recovery time after being in a crowd; prefer thought to action.

We are not necessarily shy, we can be confident and even outspoken, but we are at our happiest having a bit of a think on our own, thanks all the same

It's a bit odd to have a group of introverts, but I prefer to think of us as a collective. Separate but together.

As Christmas approaches, I thought we might need a thread to help us through it all

We could all sit and have a really good think, and put it under Philosophy?

I was also thinking about Body&Soul or Off the Beaten Track is also good!

We could do with an Introverts Retreat (or similar name) in Body and Soul. Wonder if MNHQ would be willing to let us have a new topic like that?

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Please MNHQ.

We wouldn't be any trouble.

Yes, Introverts Retreat in Body and Soul sounds lovely....sort of serene and calmly sociable....

Ah there you all are. I have searched and searched, you were all so quiet I lost it completely. So a topic might be a good idea, but it would draw attention. Scuttles off back into hibernation.

Isn't it funny how, for a bunch of introverts, this thread moves faster than many others?

I think that might be a little specific, it would only be us in there! When we asked for a sugarcraft topic we got a baking topic .

Need something like 'personality types' or something. I don't know why, but the Levellers song 'there's only one way of life and that's your own' has come to mind :)

What about "The Quiet Room"?

I have asked for an 'introverts retreat' and will let you know the result.

Thank you for suggestions, especially soft kitty

Don't mind me, this little corner will do. I'm an Introvert in Hiding.

OooH, 'The Quiet Room' is really CLEVER!
That is where we are, The Introverts Retreat, The Quiet Room, The Book Nook, The Sanctuary.

Ohhh, I love the idea of an Introverts Retreat! PLEASE MNHQ!!!?

Henrietta - what do you do when not on Mat leave?

GP or even Dr were nowhere in the suggested career types for me, but after 10 years of training it was a bit late by then! Still, my patients and students seem to value my approach, and I'm not convinced I would have fitted in better in any other career...

My imagined perfect career would be novelist, but I'm scared of putting pen to paper in case it reveals too much of my inner life to people who know me (oddly, I have no problem with strangers reading my writing).

< gives welcoming smile and passes cup of tea to SantasStrapOn>

Cross-posted! I love 'The Quiet Room' also...

Lots of new intoverts here since yesterday :) I like the idea of the quiet room as I don't always keep up with these threads. Well I enjoyed my first day at my new job, nice small team and no loud shouty people. I don't think ds even noticed I wasn't there!

I agree that introvert doesn't equal shy or lacking in confidence. I've been a training manager and have no problem presenting to large groups. I just prefer to spend my leisure time doing calm, quiet things on my own.

I like browsing this website and dreaming of living in a lovely remote little cottage with overstuffed armchairs and book nooks galore. :)

Introvert's Retreat sounds like a lovely little space! If MNHQ deem it too specific for a whole topic of its own, may I suggest a topic for the long-running chat threads? There are a few of them, aren't there?

I had my meeting with the builders. It took far too long. I had to repeat myself lots.

Came home and my cleaner gossiped at me for AGES (smile and nod, smile and nod, I don't freakin' care about your generator/Tenerife/puppy)

Then had to phone someone about the new paving in the garden of the building site, then phoned the gardener, also had to phone GP surgery to reschedule DD's preschool boosters.

Looked at clock and it was only 20 mins until I had to pick up the children from nursery.

Aarrrggghhh

They yabbered at me, breaking off only to fight between themselves, from then until bedtime.

I have been completely over-peopled today. I want to put a tea towel over my head (like you would do to a budgie cage to quieten the budgie?) and not come out.

I am literally sick of the sound of my own voice.

I need some quiet.

I'm going to watch Peep Show on Sky+ then go to bed.

That sounds exhausting Verity! I hate that feeling when you're thinking "it's okay, I've got time to sit quietly and regroup" and then you realise you haven't and you've just got to plunge back into things... bah. Sympathies!

Oh I think I have found my spiritual home.

I'd forgotten about those poems norks!

DC in bed. DH just gone to bed. The house is lovely and quiet. I have my book, the TV and the laptop. Bliss.

I have found my people!

I've always understood introverted to mean that you get your energy from within yourself, while extroverts get their energy from the outer world around them. So we introverts need lots of time by ourselves to recharge our batteries. I don't think it necessarily has much to do with being quiet, shy, anxious around other people or any other particular personality trait (though they may be more prevalent).

Oooh, I really hope we get an Introverts Retreat (I'm sure there should be an apostrophe in there somewhere, it doesn't look quite right ), Quiet Room or whatever MNHQ see fit to grace us with.

There are so many of us! I don't think we should meet up though. No offence.

We shouldn't meet up.

But maybe we could do an introvert flash mob of a lovely, atmospheric, independent bookshop, each in our chosen corner, just nodding in recognition of each other.

Staff would have to be briefed in advance not to approach anyone and asking "need any help?" though

Wow you lot talk a lot for a bunch of introverts .