Me, on the other hand, realizing being outgoing and extraverted wasn’t my personality. It was a combination of masking and people-pleasing due to trauma and undiagnosed ADHD.
Honestly, it’s a bit situational, personally. My default is definitely introverted with a healthy dose of masking/people pleasing, but in the right group, holy shit is a bit of free expression a sigh of relief when it’s not shut down like it would likely be in a “normal” social situation.
Both situations are valid and people in them need acknowledgment.
I just want to be a hermit in a cave with fast Internet. Is that too much to ask?
Wanting some alone time isn’t really a bad thing, to be fair
Most of human history is probably trauma responses
I’m hiding in the shed from family and I just saw a tiny baby opossum, spiky headed and too slow/fast for photos, so that’s a trauma response that worked out, lol
Oh I guess serial killers can make the same point
I don’t want to kill people, they just make me do it.
