Comments on: It’s Okay to Just Shut Up: Understanding Introversion

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:27:19 +0000

Brody,

Kudos to you- you found yourself over time. Pat yourself on the back for the energy and strength it took to like who you are and the work getting to that point. And, just in case you haven’t noticed, even when you look at a seemingly “normal” person, they aren’t all that normal and you find yourself thinking, geez, I really have it together!!!

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:23:02 +0000

Wow. What a great post about being an introvert!! Add me to the list. I like people, I’m a nurse and I love talking to my patient’s (if they are able) and to their family members. I’m not fearful about standing up before a large crowd and speaking on the occasions it was necessary. I like small gatherings and big concerts! I have found my most ( sorry for the cliche’), profound ah-hah moments while working in my yard, sweeping the patio, washing dishes, drying my hair or just sitting back mindlessly watching a TV show by myself!

I would like to stop feeling like it’s weird or not normal or that I should be on a website trying to find someone!!!

Kate

By: Brody Yglesias

Brody Yglesias — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:45:48 +0000

thats frickin awesome lol i after enduring a life time of hearing people say how im “broken” and people no joke having me force psyche tested (family members) through my probation officer and told how i must be soooooo depressed have finally put fully 100 percent together and come out of my shelled up world. See for along time i really thought i was just F-ed up, i mean to grow up with a family (all which are severely depressed and on meds) who are telling you these things “its genetic and passed on to you” makes it really really hard not to think your broken. But i started to piece it together a few years ago and as of lately I made a stand and said heres my deal and wrote a 40 page self diagnosis about all my issues and studied up on things and forked it over to be read. Its somewhat working… slowly but surely. Half the family thinks, i don’t care if hes right ill live in denial but the other half has new found respect for me and realize that im not broken and that there closer to broken then i am. So now i can talk to them and be heard to a point. And just knowing theres others out there like me makes me feel not so alone in the world. THIS PAGE ROCKS!!! thanks for making my day/month/year/ maybe even life lol and yea i like myself how i am thats the thing that stood out most for me. I almost used to feel ashamed for liking myself the way i was, almost as if to say not only am i broken! but i like that im broken which made me feel even further down the crazy path. But bottom line is im happy with who i am even if its not “normal”. I feel at home in my skin now a days, still same old issues to deal with but i don’t wonder if its “all my fault” anymore. I don’t blame them either just to clear that up, they did what they thought was right to do. They thought they spotted trouble brewing and tried to help but as they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Anyways before this becomes a book i just want to say and thanks lol it means alot VIVA LA RESISTANCE

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:16:05 +0000

Karen,

Thanks for adding your thoughts. I think I ended up as an ISFJ on the MB test. I only remember because a friend tested at the same time as an ENTP. Suffice it to say that the friendship was challenging, at best.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:36:38 +0000

Hey Sara, Thanks for sharing some light with us. I recently did the Myer-Briggs test and i’m a INFJ. I had one of my friends say to me, “You’re an introvert? No way”. A lot of people out there don’t understand that just because you are an introvert it doesn’t mean you are “emo” and like to seclude yourself from the real world.

Loved your post. Great to read thoughts from other fellow introverts!