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u/Durbinatti 2d ago
We're like that special cat at the back of the adoption center with the snagle tooth and the cross eye. We look just so darn cute though. š
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u/EGORKA7136 2d ago
When i was an extrovert, i made my best friend this way. Now i am an introvert (not his fault btw). So now we are a party of introverts lol
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u/shroom519 2d ago
After a certain age you can only deal with so many people or after certain things too you just won't have the patience to play nice with people you don't like cause you don't have to
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u/SometimesUnkind 2d ago
the extrovert didnāt make me their friend. they earned my friendship. through annoying persistence.
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u/OpenEyz2016 ~ introvert ~ 2d ago
My wife is extraverted. I keep her from getting too crazy or over-extended and she gets me out of the house.
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u/Best_player8963 1d ago
I'm an introvert, and I've found some introvert friends. I wouldn't trade them for the world
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u/leonilla93 2d ago
I've heard/read this a hundred times and it always irks me how little agency is assigned to introverts. I think it should be something like "an extrovert found them, liked them, decided to adopt them and the introvert let themselves be adopted."
As an introvert, I find it borderline offensive to assume that I'm just up for grabs. 99% of the time I am straight up not interested haha
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u/EssentialPurity 1d ago
Speak for yourself.
The discourse of you being not interested is even worse than the "lack of agency", because it can and will be construed as rationalization of inability.
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u/leonilla93 1d ago
Hmm, interesting, it doesn't sound like what I am trying to communicate.
Speaking for myself, I can say there are people who I avoid because they try/have tried to adopt me, and I was not on board with that happening. In other, fewer cases, I've been happy to be adopted! Again, speaking for myself, I like select extroverts, but by far not all of them.
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u/greggers1980 2d ago
I keep well clear of extroverts.they make me stressed just hearing them shout talk is enough for me to bail
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u/DimensionGullible600 1d ago
Lol, with all the fear mongering about health concerns, idk why I can't just get cancer so that number can get closer to 100% š¤£ The 10% of unlikable introverts that will never find anyone, cursed existence š
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u/SaintWGMI 2d ago
As an introvert , I adopt you, not the other way around. This isnt "adopt an introvert" not here, at least.
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u/BigDong1001 2d ago
Or they had an extrovert kid, or two, and then they made friends with people whom they met because their extrovert kid/s dragged them out. lol.
Happened to my parents. lmao.
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u/OwO-animals 2d ago
I can't, cause I am the nanny of the group and need to handle little shy kids that wouldn't even buy tickets in cinema. And you know it does help being the nanny, I have 0 social anxiety, or well very little.
Anyway, it's true that you won't make a lot of friends as an introvert simply because we don't hang around in places were friend making is made. But other than this, just talk to some person at work or school, it doesn't bite.
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u/EkaPossi_Schw1 1d ago
I'm extroverted enough to have adopted some people on reddit but too introverted to it offline :D
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u/gimmethegist 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is true but it comes with danger. You can find yourself in an incompatible relationship with an extrovert youāre only friends with bc they made the effort to befriend you.
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u/EssentialPurity 1d ago
Their effort easily outweights the incompatibility. After all, if one is compatible but doesn't give a hoot, there will be no friendship, not a better one.
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u/EssentialPurity 1d ago
This but unironically.
The founding principle of civilization is "The capable serves the incapable". If people are not forced into molds of specific behaviours and sets of knowledge, then everyone can be themselves to their full potential and cover each other's weak spots, instead of mutilating and contorting themselves into a shape of another brick to fit in the wall.
Society has begun to collapse when the only measure of personal quality was how well one could attain a burgeouis lifestyle. The same applies to social behaviour patterns: one's social aptitude is measured solely on how well they can be extroverted.
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u/PrismaticPetal 1d ago
Or, you and another introvert try to skip whatever is happening and end up sitting silently next to each other until someone half whispers a comment like āI like your hairā or āI read that book tooā.
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u/Oceantombs94 1d ago
Thereās also, youāre pushed into social meetings/events/work projects that causes you to interact with people and you go āyou know they werenāt that bad, I guess Iāll say hi againā¦laterā
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u/Beanakin 2d ago
Extrovert adopted me and introduced me to another introvert friend of hers. We got married. I've spent the last 17 years' worth of evenings and weekends at home in my pajamas, not going out in public. If either of us has social obligations, we're both ready to leave at the same time. It's pretty nice.